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Show TO PROTEST IN NEGROES' BEHALP Attorneys Employed to TaKe Steps for Reinstate, ment of Colored Soldiers Dishonorably Discharged NEW YOBK, Nov. 17. Announcement Announce-ment was made today that Col. Alexander Alex-ander S. Bacon and J. Douglas Wet- i more, attorneys for the Afro-American council, have been employed by the soldiers sol-diers of companies B, C and D of the Twenty-flf th infantry, who have been ordered discharged without honor from the United States army, to take steps for their reinstatement and to ascertain ascer-tain what rights tbey have, if any, to protect them against the effect of President Boosevelt's recent order debarring de-barring them from future employment in the Government service. The statement is made that a number of persons, both whites and colored, have expressed their willingness to assist as-sist in bearing the expense of the suit. Col. Baeon is considered an expert in military law. Mr. Wetmore says he intends to have two bills introduced at the next session of Congress on behalf of the Afro- ' American council, one depriving the President and the Secretary of War of the power to discharge soldiers without trials, and to effect the reinstatement . of the men discharged from the Twenty- ' fifth infantry. I |