Show S r n FORAKER FORMER CHECKED BY I Brownsville Incident Furnishes Opportunity to Outwit Ohio Senator ANTICIPATES HIS ACTION Committee Sustains Executive and Matter MaHer Now Considered Considered Con Con- Closed a. a Washington March 11 lu In In 01 order to prevent Senator l Foraker from irom doing further damage amage to the Republican Ma Machine a- a chine in the country by tho lie alienation of or negro voters e of ot the Brownsville Incident President Roose- Roose veit elt elt toda today sent a special me message ago to the senate recommending that a bill billbe bille be e passed allowing all of ot tho the negro troops who were dl discharged charged df dishonorably dishon dishon- hon hon- from tho the Twenty fifth infantry infantry try l' l after the Drowns Brownsville affair to reenlist reenlist re- re enlist in 10 cases where troopers can prove pro their innocence hc President anticipated the action of or Senator Foraker In bringing the tho matter up today In Iii connection with the report of ot the committee on military mill mili tary tan affairs sustaining him In dismissing dis- dis missing the mon men from the tile arm army Mr Latta Lalta the secretary to the President ent who delivers ers the m messages of or tho President to congress was waiting a athe at atthe atthe the main entrance to the tile senate chamber chamber cham cham- ber her before the tile senate convened The rim moment Chaplain Hale finished the pra prayer er and before Vice President Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks reached his chair chah Mr Latta was in iii the tiLe senate chamber and presented presented pre pre- ente time the message Foraker Meets Meet e. Senator Foraker came hp Jrr while It was being read lead with the minority re report report re- re port attacking the President with a n amass mass of or documents under his arm Ho smiled grimly when whorl he discovered that the time President ha hind had outflanked him and was now advocating a n. bill allowing allow allow- lug Jug the tIme negroes to re After tho message was waa ren read the Brownsville reports were taken up I Senator Warren chairman of or the this I committee on military affairs s submitted sub sub- n u majority report sustaining time the President and holding that the time testimony taken alen b by the committee demonstrated that the the- shooting In j H ha h I lit hI August Auguste ut tt r. r e 1 tied nt J i 11 1 1 I Tits This rep rrt signed by b ys S t tors rs Warren Lodge Warner and Dupont Republicans and Taliaferro Io Foster ter Overman Frazier Fazler and ond McCroery McCreery Democrats fh The rhe fact that five Democrats all an from Southern states slates stood b by th the administration on this question thus making It possible for or the majority of or u tl the committee cOll to sustain the dint dent nt was was commented on or openly t S Senators Warren arren Lodge Warner an and Dupont submitted another re report report report re- re port submitting a copy of a bill to tobe tobo tobo bo be Introduced to allow negroes who can establish their Innocence to ro- ro enlist of Minority 4 A minority report was then submitted sub sub- mUted by Senator Scott which was signed by Senators Scott Foraker Hemenway and in which the they declared that the evidence taken at atthe attile tile the hearing dl lid did not show that the time shooting was done by tho fol soldiers lers and that It failed further to a conspiracy of silence on which the President based base his reasons for tor dIsmIssing dismissing dis die missing all of or the time men In the three companies As jn In tho the case of the majority re report repot re- re pot port Senators Foraker and Bulkley submitted another report in irm whIch the they declared positively that the wel weight ht of tho the testimony shows that none of the soldiers of the Twenty- Twenty fifth Infantry participated In th the shooting affray that occurred at nt Brownsville In August 1906 Senator Foraker gave notice that he Intended to dl discuss cuss tho the question a at length later on and in the time course o 0 othe othe the discussion became Involved Involve with Senators Tillman an and Bailey as well wella wellI a as Much bitterness was I Continued on iii In c T- T To Ino TO I FORAKER CI CHECKED BY THE PRESIDENT from trow uge On One is shown on all sides Volumes of evidence evidence evi evi- evl- evl dence an and findings wore were submitted No Xo Question About It The majority report declares that thal there is no Question that tho the shooting w was dono by Jy a party of ot not less lesa than eight or more than twelve soldiers arid and submits the te testimony of or fifteen eye witnesses eye cs to sustain this finding Continuing it says sas there were verc many other facts su sustaining the evidence of the thc eyo es s and that from actual tests testa and other evidence It was found round g bullets and ond shells picked up on the the streets upon the morning after attel tho the attack could not have been been I fired from nn any gun other than the tho Springfield rifle rUle model of or 1903 and that the only onh rifles of ot that kind in that section of tho the country were tho those o with which the first battalion infantry armed ty fifth was |