Show I BROWNSVILLE CASE GASE CASEi i AT ANNUAL FEAST Roosevelt Defends Action Before Before Before Be Be- fore Crowd at the GridI Gridiron Gridiron Grid Grid- iron Banquet I STORY HAS LEAKED OUT SIl Slight lJ Wit With Viti It Senator Some of the Grub 1 I I Washington Jan Jail There i.-There There was a ally lly 11 in lu th thu ointment of the annual dinner din din- J ncr ner of the Gridiron club held l last st stI I night Th The now ow noted Brownsville case casc was debated for over an hour I I with more more ear earnestness st than was noted rioted In the debate on the m matter when It It I was before beCore th the tho United States senate seriate attitude of or President Roosevelt It was stated stated plainly b by no less pers personage personage person person- mage m- m age than the President himself The remarks of of Senator For Foraker I which followed unexpectedly laid a basis bals for Cor a n rejoinder b by the President nt The Time club members and their guests became so 50 Interested that their dinner dinner din din- ner ncr grew cold which Is an unusual thing at these affairs as the repast Is sufficiently Inviting to attract almost all aU the tho attention of oC the evening th the themore themore more formal matters to be handled usually us us- u liy following the dinner The entree had just been served ser hen President Roosevelt gained the tho floor He lie began his remarks with witha a pleasing essay on the necessities for public and private morality but wound up UI with a Justification of his course hi In ordering the dismissal of the negro soldiers and declaring that thi the senators senators sena sena- tors who opposed him were all wrong Dut hut it tl Out There has always al been an unwritten ten tell law In the Gridiron club which has kept discussion of oC events e taking place In Jo the club an n unknown quan quan- tit Nothing over er said aId by a guest was ever C repeated c outside the thc dining hall The rime Incidents of or last Just night however how how- e ever eI I have ha proved pro tu hi u be of such public f Interest t that this law has hat been bean dl disregarded Ie and the discussion following the Incidents has Jias been quite general Il It Is said Id accurately o or inn 1 Iy 1 tb g J t I 1 b i bif the the b t I Foraker Joke The TIne senator from Ohio In tn deel declaring r- r ing illg himself as not responsible for the conduct of the chief chic executive executive tive remarked that he ml might ht better bettel characterize the remarks of the speaker speak speak- der d- d er who had preceded him a as Tom Torn Reed need had thu those of n a former r executive executive tive tI That man seems to Ui labor Jabor und under r the belief that he lie has Just jUt discovered er d the Ten Comme Commandments The defense was vas earnest Senator Foraker had hardly resumed his weal seat when the President rose find and spoke for half an hour speaking with such uch earnestness that when the hour for adjournment came caine the remaining lem viands of the banquet had not been served I I |