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WHY HE DID IT. T%e President Gives Good and *? _ .. ^ I myi* .1 I ...?r -i i.i-> .-:'ir-- ?'_? ... >';'. Ssffident Reasons far HIS REGENT ORDER iScaarglflj Certain Negro Soldiers fron tte (Toiled Suits Army Without Honor. He Makes No Apol ogy sod Says He Weald De It Again. In response to the senate resolu tion calling for an investigation in the ?'shooting up" of Brownsville by segro soldiers and there subsequent dlsmissall therefor, President Boose velt sentito the aesate * complete re port or the affair. The report is one ?2 the strongest papers ever prepared by the president, and is a conclusive answer to his critics. We make some extracts from the report, which will be read with interes. The president Bays: I am glad to avail myself of the op portunity afforded by there resolutions to lay, before the congress the follow ing facts as to the murderous conduot t>f certain members of the oompai ies in question and as to the conspiracy by which many of the other members of these companies saved the crimi nals kit jutict, to ifce dltgiaie of the United States uniform. I call your attention to the accom panying reports of Maj. Augustus P, Blookaom. of Lieut. Col. Leonard A. Lovaring and of Brig. Gen. E truest A. Garlington, the inspector general, of she United States army, of their in vestigation into the conduot of the troops in question. An effort ban been made to discredit the fairness of the iovestlgaation into the conduct of these colored troops by pointing out that Gen. Garhhgton is a Southerner. Precisely the same action would bave been taken bad the troops been white ?Indeed, ihe discharge would proba bly have been made in more summary fashion. Gen. Garlington Is a native of South Carolina; Lieut. Col. Lovering is a na tlvrof New Hams hire; Mai. Blook som is a native of Ohio. As it hap pent, the disclosure of the guilt of the troops was made in the report of she officer who comes from Ohio, and the efforts of an officer who comes from South Carolina were confined to she endeavor to shield the innocent men of the companies in question, if any such there were, by a curing in formation which would enable us ad equately to punish the quUty. But I wish it dlstlnoly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either of ficer la one which I absolutely refuse to consider. The standard of professional honor and of loyalty to the flag and the ser vice is the same for all officers and all . enlisted men of the United States army, and I resent with the keenest indignation any effort to draw any line among them based upon birth place, creed, or any other considera tion of the kind. I should put the same entire faith in thes reports if it bad happened that they were all made by men coming from some one State, whether in the South or the North, the Bast or the West, as I now do, when, as it happens, they were made by offiaers born lh different States. Mfcj B.ocksom'a report Is most careful, is based upon Ihe testimony of scores of eye-witnesses -teatl mony which' conflicted only In non sssentlals and which established the essential facts beyond chance of suc cessful ocntraniction. Not only has no successful effort been mads to tra verse hia findings ib any essential par tlctlar, but, as a matter or fact, every trustworthy report from outsiders amply corrobates them, by. far the beat of these outside reports being that of Gen. A, B. Nettleton, made in a letter to the secretary of war, whioh I herewith append; Gen. Net tleton being an ex-Dhioa soldier, a consistent friend of the colored man throughout bis life, alifelnng Bepub Moan, a citizen of Illinois, and assis tant secretary of the treasury under President Harrison. The attack was made near mid night on Auguit 13. Tne following tacts as to this attack are made clear by Maj. Blcoksom's Investigation and have not been, and, In my judgment, can not be, successfully controverted From 9 to 15 or 20 of the colored sol dlers took part in the attack. They leaped over the walls from the bar racks and hurried through the town. They shot at whomever Key saw mov ing, and tbey shot into hiu-es where they Baw lights. In some of these houses there ?ere wom>-n and child ren, as the would be murderers musi have known, in one he use In which there were two women and five child dren some ten shots went througa at a height of about four and a half feet above the floor, one putting out the lamp upon the table. The lieutenant of police of the town heard the firing and rode toward it. He met the raid ers, ?ho, as he stated, were about 15 colored soldiers. They instan ly start ed firing upon him. He turned and rode off, and they oontlnaed firing upon him uutll they had killed his horso They shot bim in the right arm (It was afterwards amputated above 4ha elboi-) A nujab?r of shoia were also flrtd a> two other policemen. The raMera fired aevsrai tlrrei into a betel, some of the shots being aimei at a guest sitting oy a window Tnev s: ot into a aaloous killing the barten der and wounding anoirer man. A<. the same time oibar raiders fired infcj another house in whioh woman and children "ere Bleeping, vtwo of the shots gi i- g through tha mosquito bar over the b c la ^hlch the mistress of the houa* ani fcer swo oaiidren were lying. Several Oiher houee?, were struck by bullets. It was ac night, and toe streets of the town are poorly ligoted, so thao none uf ihe individu al raiders were recognized, but the evidence of many wiin bses of all class es was conclusive to the effect tuate the raiders were ^egro soldiers. The shat tered bullets, shehB, and clips of the 'me- . OUR BUSINESS. OO-O-OOO If a man loves a maid. . That's bis business. Ii a maid loves a man, That's her business. ? o If. theyi Snarry, That'sytheirlbusiness. But When They Want Sash, Doors, Blinds, Lime, Cement Plaster, Hay, Corn and Oats in Car Lots, Rice Flour, Wheat Bran, Field Seed. THAT'S OUR BUSINESS. We carry the largest and best stock and at lowest prices. Avers & 11 i government* rifles, which were found on the ground, ere merely oarrobora ! tire. So are the bullet holds in the houses; some of which it appears must, from, the direction, have been fired from the fort just at the moment when the soldiers left It. Not? bullet hole appears in any of the structures - of the fort. The townspeople were completely surprised by the unprovoked and mur derous ss'rageryoi the attack. The soldiers were the aggressors from start to finish. They met with no substan tSal resistance, and one and all who took part In that raid stand as delib erate murderous, who did murder one i man, who tried to murder others, and who tried to murder women and chil dren. The act was one of horrible atrocity, and so far as I am aware, unparalled Jot infamy in the annals of the United States army. The white officers of the companies were completely taken by surprise, and at first evidently believed that firing meant .that the townspeople were attaklng the soldiers. It was not until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morniup that any of them became aware of the' truth. I have directed a careful in vestigatlon into the conduct of the offieeiS; to see if any of there were blame-worthy, and I have approved the recommendation of the war de partment that two be brought before a cocirtmartial. as to be noncommissioned officers and eolisted men, there can be no doubt whatever that many were neo essarily privy, after if not before the attack, to cue oonduot of those who took actual par t in this murderous riot. I refer to Maj. Blocksom's report for proof of the fact that ctirtalniy <ome ?nd probably all of the nonoom missioned officers in charge of quar tan who were responsible for tihe gun racks and had keys hereto ill their personal possession knew whin men were engaged in th attack. b. ajor Fenrose, in command of the post, in his his letter (tnoluded in the appendix) gives the reaiins why he was reluctantly convinced that tome of the men under him?as he thinks, from seven to ten?got their rifles, slipped out of quarters to do the ^booting, and returned to the bar racks without being discovered, the ihooting all occurring within two and a half short blocks of the barracks. It was possible for the raiders to go from the fort to the farthest point of firing and return in less than 10 min utes, for the distanoe did not exceed 350 yards. Snoh are the facts of this ea>e. General Nettleton, in his letter here with appe ded, states that neat door to where was he writing in Brownsville is a small cottage where a children's party had just broken op before the nouse was riddled by United States outlets, fired by United States troop* from United States Springfield rifles, at close range, with the purpose of tilling or maiming the inmates, inoludlng the parents and child ren who were stlU in the well lighted house, and whose escape from death nnder such circumstances was astonishing. He states that on another street he looks upon fresh | ouUefc sears where a volley from slmi lar government rifles was fired into the side anc windows of a hotel ocou pied at the time by sleeping or fright ened guests from abroad who could n. t posslblv ha >e given any tfTsnae to the assailant*. He writes that the chief of the Brownsville police is again on duty fr jm the I ospital, and carries an empty sleeve because be was shot by federal soldiers from the adjaoent garrison in the course of (heir murderous foray; and not far away is the fresh grave o'a nonoffend lng citizen of th < place, boy in years who was wantonly shot down by these United States soldiers while attempting to escape. The effort to confute this testi mony ?io far has consisted in the assertion or implication that the townspeople shot one another in or der to dl oredlt the soldiers?an absurdity too gross to need discussion and unsupported by a shred of evl wing ? NEW DROP-HE^ sold on asy payments. Good pri excliaii e. Second-hand Machines parts a ud attachments furnished * attention, to mail orders. New Bicycles SuM? Also Bicycle parts and er a t? * f General Repair Shop for ? e snug and Watches. Give me your work. Satisfactioi J. H. Si Market Street ? ? Op dence. There is no question ob tt the murder and the attempted mur den; there is no question that some ol the soldiers w*egnilty rbereof, then is no question that nanr of their oomrades privy to the deed have com blned to shelter the ertmipal* from justice, These comrades of the mur derers, by the r own action, havr rendered it necessary either to leave all the men, including the murderer* in the army, or to turn them all out: and under such oiroumstanees ther was no alternative, for the uaefulne? of the army would be at an end werr we to permit such an on1 rage to b committed with immunity, In short tbe evldeoce proves eon cinsifoly that a number of soldie? engag8d in a deliberate and concert* attack, as coo. blooded as it was oo - ardly; tbe purpose being to terroriz the community, and to kl I or lnj ir men, woman, and children in their homes and bads nr on the streets, an this at an bour of the night when oon certed or tffective resistance or de fense was out of tbe question. &ud wnen detection b* identifiaatloi of the criminals in the United State* uniform was well nigh lmpoulb'e So much for the origllnal orlme. a blanker never stained the annuals o' onr army. It has been supplemented by another on y lees blo? i, in tbe shape of a successful conspiracy of silence for the pnrprse of shielding those who took oart in the origlna conspiracy of* murder. These soldier were not sobool boys on a frolic. They were full grown men, in the un ifirm ?f *? m U'it'd ^?ts ?TTWV Continued on Page 3. AGGRAVATED CASE OF ECZEMA Troubled Badly for Several Years With Eczema on Limbs and Wrists ? Physicians Prescribe Without Any Benefit-Blotches Now All Gone. ANOTHER WONDERFUL ? CURE BY CUTICURA "For several years I was troubled badly with rm eczema on my limbs and wrists. Physicians in several towns had prescribed for me without giving me ? any results. I had often used Cuticura Ointment and received relief temporarily. In the spring of 19041 took the Cuticura Resolvent Pius and used the Cuticura Ointment for about five weeks, and at the end of that time there was not a blotch on me anywhere. 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