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Show Discharged Negro Soldiers May Now ' Prove Their Innocence. Washington. Under a special ruin the house on Saturday passed the son-ato son-ato bill granting to'tho discharged negro ne-gro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, In-fantry, snld to have brfen Involved in tho "shooting up" or Drownvlllo, Tex., tho right to provo their lnnoccnco rnd thus make them eligible for re- rtorntlon to the army. Many speeches wero mado. Mr. Slayden or Texa3 spoke In opposition, nnd declared that "congress wns seeking by thl6 bill to set asldo tho most righteous act of tho Koosevolt administration. Tho bill now lacks only the president's signature. |