Presidential addresses and state papers Author:Theodore Roosevelt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: his ability to discharge his duties as such should be a prerequisite to his going into the line, and his success in commanding should largely determine his stand... more »ing at graduation. The Board of Visitors should be appointed in January, and each member should be required to give at least six days' service, only from one to three days' to be performed during June week, which is the least desirable time for the board to be at Annapolis so far as benefting the navy by their observations is concerned. Theodore Roosevelt. The White House, Tuesday, December 8, 19o8. SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE SENATE, DE- CEMBER 14, 19o8 To the Senate: I inclose herewith a letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a report of the investigation made by Mr. Herbert J. Browne, employed by the department in conjunction with Capt. W. G. Baldwin to investigate as far as possible what happened at Brownsville on the I3th and I4th of August, 1906. The report and documents contain some information of great value and some statements that are obviously worthless, but I submit them in their entirety. This report enables us to fix with tolerable defi- niteness at least some of the criminals who took the lead in the murderous shooting of private citizens at Brownsville. It establishes clearly the factthat the colored soldiers did the shooting; but upon this point further record was unnecessary, as the fact that the colored soldiers did the shooting has already been established beyond all possibility of doubt. The investigation has not gone far enough to enable as to determine all the facts, and we will proceed with it; but it has gone far enough to determine with sufficient accuracy certain facts of enough importance to make it advisable that I place the report before you. It appears that almost all the me...« less