DISMISSAL OF THREE COMPANIES OF
                   TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.




                     DECEMBER 14, 1908.



  Mr. FORAKER.  Mr. President, I present an amendment to
the bill (S. 5729) to correct the records and authorize the re-
enlistment of certain noncommissioned officers and enlisted men
belonging to Companies B, C, and D, of the Twenty-fifth U. S.
Infantry, who were discharged without honor under Special
Orders, No. 266, War Department, November 9, 1906, and the
restoration to them of all rights of which they have been de-
prived on account thereof.
  I ask that the amendment I have just offered may be printed
in the RECORD, and that it may be also printed and lie on the
table; and in order that the bill, as it is so proposed to amend it,
may be before the Senate, I ask that the bill as it will read
when so amended, if this amendment should be adopted, may
also be printed in the RECORD, and be printed, and lie on the
table.
  The VICE-PRESIDENT.    Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment and the bill as proposed to be amended are
as follows:
  By Mr. FORAKER:
  An amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill (S. 5729)
to correct the records and authorize the reenlistment of certain non-
commissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C,
and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry who were discharged
without honor under Special Orders, No. 266, War Department, No-
vember 9, 1906, and the restoration to them of all rights of which they
have been deprived on account thereof.
  On page 2, lines 1 and 2, strike out the words "any duly authorized
enlisting officer of the United States Army or Navy" and insert in lieu
thereof the words, "the commission provided for by section 2, or who
shall file with such commission an affidavit showing."
  On page 2, line 13, after the word "is," insert the words "subject
to the provisions of section 2 of this act."
  On page 2, line 14, after the word "therefor," insert the words, "to
any duly authorized recruiting or enlisting officer of the United States
Army or Navy."
  On page 2, line 15, after the word  "time," strike out the word
"within" and insert in lieu thereof the word "after."
  On page 2, line 15, after the word "months," insert the words "and
within one year."
  On page 4, at the end of line 5, add as new sections the following:
  Sec. 2. That Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, U. S. Army, retired; Lieut.
Gen. John C. Bates, U. S. Army, retired; Maj. Gen. George W. Davis, U. S.
Army, retired; Maj. Gen. Jesse M. Lee, U. S. Army, retired; Brig. Gen.
Aaron S. Daggett, U. S. Army, retired, are hereby constituted and ap-
pointed a commission to hear and determine all charges or objections
tending to identify any of said noncommissioned officers and enlisted
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Black Battalion: Speech of Hon. Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio in the Senate of the United States, 1908

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