Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — NEGROES REMAIN IN SAN ANTONIO [ARTICLE]

NEGROES REMAIN IN SAN ANTONIO

Recent Order for Their Transfer Has Been Suspended. THIRD CAVALRY KNOWS LAND Reason Given for Change of Plan Is That Regiment Now on Border Duty Is Better Acquainted with that Section. San Antonio. Tex., April 7.—The war department has sent to General William H. Carter, commanding the division of the mobilized troops at Fort I Sam Houston, ar order advising him that the previous order detaching the ■ Ninth cavalry of colored troops from ' his command has been suspended. The Ninth will not move from San Antonio, for rhe present at least, to do patrol duty along the border as part of the command of the departmen* of I Texas. The latest- order from Washington gave as the only reason for the suspension of its previous order the fact that the Third cavalry, which has dore patrol duty along the Rio Grande since December, is much more acquainted with the country to be patrolled than a new regiment could be and therefore more competent to fulfill the object for which it has teen assigned to duty. This sudden reversal of the orders designed to remove the regiment of colored cavalry from Sen Anter io end scatter it along 1,800 miles cf herder, . from Brownsville to Fort Hancock, indicates. to sone extent the state of mind that Congressman Garner has passed through during rhe last fortyeight hours. Ir.ricent"lly a state of mind in the war department.

It was the Texas congressman who heeded the complaint of the people of San Antonio, as he said, theu h t*e v were outside of his district and made representations to the president for the removal from the maneuver camp Of the colored regiment on the ground that the troopers did not obey the Jim Crow laws in force on the street cars.