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Show NEGRO TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN Baker Orders Immediate Removal Re-moval of Rioting Infantry From Houston, Texas. ORDER IS RESTORED General Parker Reports Situation Situa-tion to War Department Investigation to Follow. NEGRO TROOPS TOP PAGE ONE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 Senator Sheppard of Texas, after a conference with Secretary Baker today, announced an-nounced that the negro troops concerned con-cerned In the rioting at Houston would be withdrawn from Texas immediately. Later Secretary Baker, after reading read-ing first official reports, announced that he could tako no action of any kind until tho affair had been investigated investi-gated fully. Secretary Baker also said that the Houston affair did not affect the policy of training negro troops In tho south. It is within the Jurisdiction of the commander of the southern department depart-ment to move tho troops to any other point in his territory without "Orders from Washington. Baker Facing Serious Situation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Official reports re-ports on the troop rioting in Houston began arriving at the war department early today and were hurried to Secretary Sec-retary Baker as fast as they came in. Thoy were coming from the commanding command-ing general of the southern department depart-ment whose investigation possibly may be supplemented by a special Inquiry In-quiry by the inspector general of the army as the affair is regarded as most sorious, particularly in view of the fact that tho nogro troops concerned were regulars and not national guardsmen guards-men or drafted troops new to regular regu-lar army discipline. Tho similarity of the occurrence to tho celebrated Brownvllle rioting, as the result of which President Roosevelt Roose-velt summarily dismissed two battalions battal-ions of negro troops Is marked and officials indicate that the affair will be investigated Just as thoroughly and dealt with as vigorously as its naturo demands. They realize that it accentuates accen-tuates tho delicate question of mobilizing mobiliz-ing nogro troops in the south, against which protests have been coming from tho states and which has confronted the war department with a very embarrassing em-barrassing situation. |