The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29
TLLLMAN HAS HIS SAY.
Gives His Views IN the Senate on the
Mrs. Miner Morris Incident.

| WARRINGTON, June Ex-senator Tillmar
took the floor In the Senate this Afternoon
and expressed his promised views On the
| Mrs. Miner Morris Incident. His speech hac
| been anticipated by the crowded "a lleries
mostly women, who came TO hear Mr.. Till
man grill Il. +. Barnes and the Washington
police force.
Mr.. Tillman directed the reading Of the
letter which was sent to the Senate com
nittee explaining the Morris incident
He also read the statement from Elmer f.
Paine OF the Associated Press, who, VIZ,
TIllman said, was the only one OF the six
newspaper men who witnessed the incident
who was asked for a statement during the
investigation instituted by the President
Mr.. Tillman placed in the record the state,
ment OF James II Price, a reporter on Il local
newspaper. whose version differed widely
from MIR. Paine's a. to Mrs. Morr's's conduct
before her arrest and a. to the severity with
which the police handled her,
Mr.. Tillinat said he stood ready to prove
by four other newspaper men and other
reputable witnesses that Mr.. Prices YER.
sion was the correct one.
And | nave always stood ready and now
stand ready to prove that II is correct. said
Mr.. Milman declared that Mira. Morris
had told him that when her pocketbook,
which she dropped while being elected,
was returned to her at the detention hospital
the money hat had been in 1t, some 81 or 81,
was missing.
that Mrs. Morris was not dragged from the
Executive grounds, Mr.. Tillman asserted
with much emphasis that her torn skirt,
underclothing and stockings would prove
amy man an arrant liar who says she was not
dragged" IIn addition to this evidence, ="
continued Mr.. Tillman, stand five or six
reputable newspaper men, ready to testify
that she was dragged, but they have not been
asked or permitted to do so"
He vent on to commen on a statement
from the detention hospital matron that
Mrs. Morris had prayed in u manner that
indicated her mind was unbalanced.
Nov, | am not n praying man" said MIR.
Tillman. Il seldom pray and most of my
prayers are voiceless, but II seems to me
that for a woman to pray under such clrcum-
stances is not proof that she was out OF her
mind"
Referring to the discrepancy between the
statements made by a press correspondent
who had witnessed the ejectment Of Mrs.
Morris, he having, Mr., Tillman said, ex-
pressed great indignation over it to his
newspaper associates that day, but the next
dav had justified Barnes, the Senator called
attention to the fact that the correspondents
son had shortly afterward been appointed
to a cadetship, az had also the son of Wash
ington's Chief of Police, who had made a
pretence Of investigating the conduct Of
the policeman concerned in the Incident.
This" he exclaimed most earnestly,
'may be a coincidence, but it is a most re-
markable coincidence"
In concluding Mr.. Tillman grew en-
phatic. He said that he had felt it his duty
to make the statement and if anybody
don't like it he can lump it"
This defiance brought out rounds Of APP
plause from the galleries, which the Vice
President had difficulty in suppressing.
Mr.. Kean OF New Jersey prevented by an
objection the consideration Of Mr.. Tillman's
resolution to investigate the District police,
and the Morris incident was closed.