| Show fA OfFENDS AS Senator Says Exceed Exceeded ed His Constitutional Power In Discharging Them THINKS HE WAS IMPOSED ON to J 10 Ho 1111 III L Dec the Sena Senator tor looking to nn by tho or the pro or tho negro ot tho Willi taken up Senator nd dressed the In III support He began with tho brond declaration that thu d Ilia ran when ho tho hu also tho on which his was bu cd Foraker said that constitutional ower to army and nav 83 CWt ma to Congress Con guVO to ralso ar armies mies to muk rules und lone tor theIr government The no noman man bo without 1 right to bo tried and tho or war he minUtely how these trials are to be conducted should be In with tho at He contended utter reading at length tho articles of war that It that tho bo absolutely without rho ho In his guilty or hall been or that reason JIo thIs with the or war providing a martial should direct thIs This Willi all to gUard tha ex at an autocratic power s sto to punIshment had limited tho Ir cited cases trem the work ot Gen on InV to I O testimony an o enso under the head at and was by TakIng Ill the Individual records of tho soldIers Mr first firstman man on tho list was a sergeant who had 26 years Each hili his good wall characterized as ex good cx coll nt Vh Ill President Mr Foraker with an atrocIous hIlS been rt man Is not guilty He goes branded as 1 murderer Mr Foraker held that the rOM docs not open Jut that Kave ot along similar In all ot which jUR ld been court martinI hus III ways Lem he continued to that no man guilty or nn o bo otherwise than III Congress might dIrect Tho president this Is the most commItted It Ir n committed tho crime and lilt shoot up I agree with him nut what I want to call to Is that tho hils misconstrued II his power tho Tho president says tho or men hUI boen II the ot scores or n by bytho tho report or Maj I counted tho witnesses In that report and thero lire just 21 TheIr was taken by II zel committee and no oath were ad MI then read tho M who said they not een the until he had reduced tho number ot actual to As to he rem that testimony WAil utterly Ind to I question Senator Knox us to whether thero no evi evidence dence that In tho Mr he had heon uns ble to discover other and In he tho had been Should the military committee be to examine wItnesses Mr continued I know that I Ket testimony that will on this matter Mr Foraker repeated that he believed tho presIdent had bren upon Hut he addell I believe that he Is I big enough man and a just enough man manto to undo what he hns done when he out tho truo When ho concluded he that he resolution re an Investigation 80 ns to It mandatory on the ThIs resolution will bo tho holidays Corning to III or the presIdent Senator Lodge remarked that he was n not one of who on 11 new malle up hili vance lIe to con he the 01 dence he hall had to todo do lIo had enough Dt t to that were two 10 the question WIlS I ot Justice not only to the men but I o to pre and tho ot Jle It Incredible that t reports e one lit them son of n and was born In South Mr that the record at the that at tour lither times since It had been Involved In similar Scott tho te ho had with 11 reo onn who hll tho regiment Cor 16 years rM It to he as IS any In th Negro troop he olt tho only oneil who never to win 1 hattle the It 1 the at lite war he right the It It had heen tor the Tenth WI not toll a the je ot that that In the Jlou o oThe The adjourned at 24 1 un until til Jan 3 1901 |
