Show SENATE SUMMARY session devoted to the colored troops question I 1 washington jan an 3 after ater two weeks of vacation n the senate sat gat for two and a half hours bours today and thou then adjourned until antl monday the session was devoted entirely to the further discussion of president Roosevel ts 0 order dismissing the negro tr troops aps ops of the twenty fifth infantry for sho ng up brownsville Browns Drowns ville rille senator culberson ot of the state defended the order bringing to ita its support many points of legal construction and justifying the action by many quotations taken in connection with the affair he made an impassioned statement of the position of the south on the negro question which he declared therosa the mosA vital and dangerous problem 1 before ahe th amerl A merl can people senator forskey replied aed briefly expressing his intense interest in having hiving speedy action on his resolution for an investigation senator lodge proposed in an amendment to this resolution has the effect of admitting the presidents authority as commander in chief of the army to take the step he did and of restricting the investigation to the occurrence in brownsville Browns ville on motion of senator hale the r resolution was given the right bf of baj wa on 11 monday londay i |