| Show ST STATEMENT TEr ENT BY SENATOR I I Testimony in Brownsville Inquiry Fails Fais to Show Any Soldier Took Part jn i iNO NO NEW EVIDENCE WAS FOUND Docs Does Not Predict Ultimate ull and atud no nt Know IO If j lore More Wit Wll 1 II Will Wi Ill l lie ho o Heard arl arla Washington a Juno IS Senator Foraker of ot Ohio gave out a I written summing up tip UI the tho testimony aken by b tho Lime senate committee on military affairs In tho the Brownsville in lit il I anti and declaring that it falls to 10 show how that any soldier so ll et tool took part pail In Inthe the tho affray The rime he statement which the senator makes mu es a act a plain duty ti tt Ii hut tho truth as fl well wel us f to 10 the accused soldiers and Ind because ho lie Is I moru fa tn familiar a with the tho testimony than any n body else Is 11 an answer to a publish published ed Cd statement that time tho testimony con can conclusively slowed the tito soldiers of ot tho the ing lag battalion did mild the tho shoot shooting shootIng Mr tr ForaUer er says pays The testimony by b the tho tl sol soldiers diers llers In tn their own behalf Is Ii not nOl In lit InDY my DY opinion shaken by b tho testimony given ghen by I the time citizens ot of Brownsville No N Important Item Iem of ot le evidence has tn boon beon brought forward against t the tho soldiers In this tills Ninety per cent of what tho Iho citizens have havo testified to has hn relations rela 1015 to nine flint 1 a t tars over oer which there thero was no con controversy For Instance concedes that the town was wal hot up that somebody mild did It that thos thoi peo pee people plo who did It I passed through thc LImo streets and alloys alws tho the shooting was WIH done domie donI and they the hail had hn guns KUI gUI or re revolver revolvers volver oll or firearms fr of ot sonic some Ile son wort and that p pO inn wits was WIS killed and mother wounded The hC only dispute IH IN as ni to tl whether time the 11 raiders vero an a soldiers of the tho tho garrison There Ther are aro two tO kInds ot of evidence re relied r rUt lieu lied upon to show tile soldiers rs did It ItOM Onn Omme consists of at mucus lU miami bullets that were secured st from Crom the tho to streets and houses hou ol of ot Brownsville Tho of o microscopic inspection In folon interpreted II in n tho Iho light t of f the other testimony In tim tile the enso Ir O disposed of this part of ot the tue Ih case CI The Time only olly other testimony In iii 1 timid that of or people who claim to been hll to iii the tho shooting This hl of various people declaring declarIng ing lag that when they heard time tho firing they thaI looked out nut tut of ot timely their windows window anti anil houses hol es and amid down dark dI where wore no 10 lights light nt at lt distances vary varying lag ing Ilg nil all 11 way ray Wf from 30 feet It up tip to tta feet foet CeI and nd th the men amen who w II 10 were time the OH am nt wearing w time the Ih uniforms of o United Hil try tea soldiers soldier The onJel of le the battalion have hn testified generally and specifically oa mis n to 10 th Ih s of ot tin tho night night to iii this thin In time Iho h 1 of ot Mci I r time the wise wui no sO dark that he could not distinguish ono omits on of ot huts his officers who were wern sit all al white m omen n from rein ono one of o tho tim enlisted men tIl who were wro all al at lt a it distance of II 10 feet teet nor could ho lie at Unit that distance f tell anything about how a n wn Will All AH these huo testified d tune th Uhf of time tho citizens who that IllumE they the saw naw the tho raiders and Ind nd recognized 1 theta iii 1111 Is soldiers at this are ar utterly ullI At one cute hate when th the e 1110 neo was only onh p Iti In were of ot th tims opinion and ana frankly It that their mon men but ut tho ilium fact act only strength elms their te its th now any give 1 It I that the testimony ot or thu citizens of ot otI he the I city cHy claiming to 10 time the soldiers li Is I utterly 1111 1 II II unworthy na i I 1 dont know whether city any norn l t tee tol will and nod dont dout Know It if any more t should be bo taken 11 and I cannot l ot with wI lb propriety pr 1111 ni II mute mat ro limit but I f have IIVO no sin lion linn in III saying time tha testimony taken taVon dowil down to thin hue Ihl utterly foils fulls In iii my m to 10 show tIme the s or orun orally ally uny un of ot them ha J anything whatever to 10 todo todo do with lh the up ot It it vIlH villi I laka this thin n I l peak apak m d lUX t to tn niHIl with iho subject At salute IOme I Ii Jo i il I l |
