Arizona republican., 1906-01-18
Furious Attack on the President Compelled
 the Closing of the Senate Doors
Mir Tllman Adverted Again to the Mrs. Minor Morris Incident and Invites Resolution by Republican Sen ators for an Investigation.

Washington. Jan. 1.-The recent for [ cibIe removal from the White House of Mrs. Minor Morris was made the subject of an emphatic denuncia ton by MT. Tillman in the senate today. His remarks called out remonstrances from Messrs. Hale, Hopkins and Dan iel and led to the very abrupt closing of the doors and the sudden adjourn ment of the senate in the middle of the afternoon. The speech abounded in MT. Tillman's peculiar expressions and was characterized by many severe and exceptionally personal thrusts at the president. At times he wept over what he regarded as the indignities 10 the lady, and his voice and eyes were full of tears when he declared, in the face of protests from his fellow senators, that he would demand an investigation of the White House incident.
 MT. TiIlman began by quoting ex- tracts on the Monroe doctrine from the last annual message of the president. He laid special stress upon the presi- dents declaration that mo just and orderly government has anything to fear from us"
 ''Is the converse true that an unjust and disorderly government has some thing to fear from us?'' MT. Tillman asked, because if it is, therein lies an immense amount of trouble for this country" It meant. he said, that the president intended to set up a standard and compel the South American na- tions to adhere to it.
 MT. Tillman contended that it would not benefit the country to wrench and stretch the Monroe doctrine be- yong all precedent. It will not benefit us to step forward upon every pretext with a policeman's club to enforce the claims of bondholders. That is the sum and substance of the new depart ure."
 He quoted from the Springfield Re publican. a history of Morales ca 1 reer. 'An admirable picture" he ex- | claimed, ''of the kind of govern ment our great and good president has been taking under his wfng-a govern ment of cut-throats, back-stickers. as- | sassins, debauchers and everything awful that the English language may be used to describe"
 He said the president had trans gressed the canons of a century in car rying into effect a treaty that had nev- | CT been ratified. It used to be that the | failure of the senate to act on a treaty was sufficient" said the senator but | such is no longer the case; you've got to say no in very loud words to ! 1 to hear at all'
 In criticising the president, MT. Till man said the press was being used in | threatening congress on matters of leg ! islation or patronage in order that the president may have his way. The sena- | tor compared the executive with "An- drew Jackson or Napoleon Bonaparta or any other man who pushed things to the limit"
 l MT. Tillman said that the press has made the president what he is. and that it has been through that instru- | mentality that he has dared to be stride the world like a Colossus" He said that an instance of the presidents use of newspaper men is had in his 1 employment of Jos. B. Bishop as a ''press agent" for the Panama canal and that he had gradually assumed to | direct the eforts of the press until the 1 White House news has become coIored and doctored in the interests of the administration.
 1 Secretary Loeb is the apothecary." i he said. land pills on Panama, pills on Roosevelt, pills on railroad rates | and pills on eVerythine, pertaining to | public affairs are administered in this 1 way. The newspapers have been the l funnel through which this quaek phy-
 
 | some newspaper man refuses to print
 that which the president wants there is great wrath at the executive man. | sion."
 | Illustrative of some stories which crop out lover or through the bars l Mir. Tillman said that "the saddest and most pitiful example of anything that | has ever been associated with the name
 of the president was the recent outrage 1 on Mrs. Minor Morris at the White House" He said that only for the | transgression of some rule the woman | sitting quietly in the office had been dragged rudely away. her clothes torn
 and ear ring torn out, and she was
 thrust into a carriage and taken away. ! At this point MT. Hale inter- upted
 Mir. Tillman to protest against the lat 1 ter's representation concerning the 1 Morris incident. "I hope" he said de- | libeTateIy, 'that I may never figure Tn l this body as a general apologist of the administration or any one connected | with it." and, continuing, said: "but | say to the senator from North Car
 olina that he is making statements and | assuming facts for which there is no warrant, and that he is making the
 most serious and defanatOry charges
 against the executive of this country, ] thS pleSlueiiI Ol e'll LiiS oiiA1Sh 1'e'i'Ss 1 having nothing whatever that he ad- l duces as proof
 1 ''I must say to this senator that do
 not deem it seemIy that here in the
 senate. he should take this occa sion
 of discharging personal feelings of i'll
 will he has against the president of the
 United States. It is not a spectacle
 that any of us can look upon either
 with satisfaction or tOleration."