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IS TEXAS LAW. SUPBEWEB?Arc the state courts or the army supreme in Texas in the enforcement offt-the state laws?This is the simple question raised by the latest action of the war department in ordering that the negro soldiers charged with murder at Brownsville be removed to fort Sam Houston and it is a question of the utmost import to the people of oil the states in the union.These negro soldiers were under arrest on bench warrants issued by a district judge, charging them with murder. Notwithstanding this, the war department ordered the commandant at fort Brown to turn them over to the military authorities at fort Sam Hous-ton' This locks very much as if the ■war department intended to protect the accused negroes at any cost ancl in de-£ance of the authority of a Texas court.To avoid a, clash the district judge revoked the bench warrants. As a peace measure this was probably wise, but it leaves the question open whether Texas is to be left free to execute its processes in the enfovement of its own laws, or whether the federal government is to usurp the supreme authority in this state.President Boosevolt is treading dangerous ground In this Brownsville affair. ; The people' of Brownsville and of Texas have been marvelously patient under extreme provocation, but their patience has an end. If the state administration had not acted the pa-rt of supine acquiescence in whatever the war department chose to do, this affeti*r would have been handled by the state of Texas in no uncertain manner at the verv start.
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San Antonio Gazette
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 25, 1906
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