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14 SENATOR CULBERSON ON THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH. (Continued from page 5.) certain Texans and had reflected particularly upon Capt. McDonald, the Ohio Senator said he did not know what McDonald resented, un less it was the term “gentleman.” Mr. Foraker read from the Cin cinnati Enquirer an account of Capt. McDonald’s resentment, commenting freely as he progressed. Among other things Senator Foraker said: “I don’t know why Capt. McDon ald would charge 4 hell with one bucket of water’ unless it was that he had no other use for the water.” Again after reading the statement of McDonald that he was willing to meet Foraker, but did not inted to make trouble for him, the Ohio Sen ator exclaimed: “What a relief that is to me.” Another account, taken from the Houston Post, pictured Capt. Mc- Donald as a great “man killer” in the cause of justice, and told of the manner in which McDonald had con ducted his investigation of the Brownsville affair at the request of the governor of Texas. Mr. Foraker concluded his remarks by putting the interviews in the record and asking for a vote on the resolution. Senator Culberson replied briefly by saying the country was to be fe licitated on the fact that the Ohio Senator had turned his attention to derision of a captain of Texas rang ers. Captain on the Spot. “There is,’’ he said, “one thing I ought to add to what I have said about Capt. McDonald in view of the wish expressed in this chamber a few days ago to meet him, but which has bcfcn omitted from the record. It affords me very great pleasure to say in the same spirit that he never de clined an invitation of that character in all his life, and he is too old to change his habits now.” An amendment was offered by (Sen ator Ixnlge to confine the inquiry by the committee on military affairs to a qustion of fact in regard to the conduct of the negro soldiers, in that it recognized that the order was is sued by the president “in the exer cise of his constitutional authority as commander in chief.” This would have the effect of preventing an investigation of the constitutional questions involved in the president’s order dismissing the troops. On Monday Senator Lodge made an able address to the (Senate on his resolution. h n * A $100,000,000 BOND ISSUE. One of the largest mortgages re corded in recent years was that ne gotiated by the Hudson & Manhat tan Railroad Co., by which the en tire McAdoo tunnel property is pledged to the (Standard Oil Company as trustee, for $100,000,000, with 4 1-2 per cent interest. The mort gage is giving to secure a bond is sue. n n n Mr. Taft may take a greater inter est in the Presidential nomination when he is reminded that one stren uous campaign will do him more good than six bottles of any obesity cure on the market. A Redlands (Cal.) girl claims to be able to write 300 words a minute on the typewriter. And we are almost willing to bet that she can also chew gum and talk to a bystander while she is writing them. IRON BEDS $1.98 to $35.00 BRASS BEDS $25.00 to $152.00 Mahogany and Oak Suits From SIB.OO to $350.00 Beautiful Quartered Oak Side boards $11.50 to $150.00 ..STOVES AND RANGES.. Have You Seen Our New Fall Line ? We have the very best and cheapest. Our prices talk loud er than we can. 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