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Show FORAKER WILL NOT BE COUNSEL FOR NEGROES Washington, Jan. 18. Senator J. B. Foraker, in a signed statement today, Fet at rest the story that after his retirement re-tirement from the senate March 4, ho would become tho counsel for the discharged dis-charged negro soldiers of the twenty-fifth twenty-fifth Infantry. The story', he says. Is mt true, and he adds that he could not accept such employment should It be tendered. Both Senators Foraker a; J Bishop John Denny know of no fund being raised for the defense cl the discharged negroes. |