Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-18
TURMOIL IN SENATE!
Southern Senator Made Fierce
 Attack on Roosevelt.
NORRIS INCIDENT AT WHITE HOUSE
Tillman's Speech Abounded In Bitter Personal Thrusts at Executive.
 Resolution to Investigate ssag Is Offered.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.--The eject
 ment of Mrs. Minor Morris of this cit.
 from the White House came up in tn,
 senate in the course of an address by
 Senator Tillman Oem., $. O attack
 ing the administration. Tillman wal
 relating the incidents and arraignins
 the president when MT. Hale (Rep.
 Mel arose and strongly reprimanded his South Carolina colleague.
 Said Mir. Hale: "The senator is mak, ing statements which he cannot verify
 He is making spectacle which is de.
 plorable and which the senate ought not to be required to submit to. I do
 not believe he ought to be permitted to use this incident as an excuse to grati- fy his personal spite against the presi-
 dent"
 Mir Tillman read the testimony of an eyewitness to the Morris incident,
 which was little short of sensational, and said he would produce the author before the investigating committee. He also had the names of three other wit nesSeS Who would appear.
 Now" exclaimed Mr. Tillman con- temptuously, this is the strenuous life, and ask again. what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fall back on your so called dignity. The president could write letter of sym pathy to Fitzsimmons. the prize fighter, and invite to the White House physical trainers and jiu iitsu artists and pride himself on his physical formation and indulge the strenuous life. but he couldn't find time to investigate the case of a poor woman maltreated and abused by his 'underlings.'
 MT. Tillman said his heart had been touched by the Morris incident. He related, his voice broken with emo ton and tears streaming from his eyes, how one eyewitness to the Morris mat teri gentleman of honorable reputa tion, had wept afterward because he had not interfered as an American to prevent the police officers from mal- treating Mrs. Morris. -,-.,
 MT. Tillman made motion that an Investigating committee of five sena- tors (and he suggested he would pre-. fer that all were Republicansl be ap- pointed. ~ ta.ss <
 Mfr. Hopkins tRep., Ill.) declared that the investigation was out of place. The. senate had no right tosinvestigate the presidents personal affairs any more than the president had right to in vestigate the affairs of the senator from South Carolina.
 Mir. Daniel Dem.. Val rose and ex- pressed regret that Mir. Tillman had in troduced the subject. He said it was out of place The White House was the presidents house. The senator from South Carolina had made a mis- take in referring to it. The speech abounded in Mir. Tillman's peculiar expressions and was charac- terized by many severe and exception ally personal thrusts at the president. Mir. Tillman said the president had the canons of century | in carrying into effect a treaty that 1 had never been ratified. Tt used to be that the failure of the senate to act | on treaty was sufficient" said the | senator. but such is no longer the | case. You've got to say 'No.' in very | loud words to Theodore Roosevelt in order to get him to hear at all.' ..
 Speaking of Morales flight. Mir. Till | man said that he expected to hear of him next as holding position on the Panama canal. Wouldn't that be glo- rious?" he asked.