The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-05
DISTRESSING SCENE
 AT WHITE HOUSE
Mrs. Minor Morris Insisted on
 Seeing President
HAD TO BE CARRIED OUT
Resists Officers and Cries Dstressingly on By-Standers Not to Allow Them to Put Her In the
 Patrol Wagon.

Washington, January IA distressing scene was enacted at the White House executive offices today in which a woman was carried screaming from the building because she refused to leave without rer sort to force.
 About 1 o'clock a handsomely attired woman apparently about 50 years old, en- tered the executive offices and inquired for Secretary Loeb Through a messenger l she sent her card to the secretary On the card was engraved Mrs. Minor Nor ris.'' and written beneath it in ink was the address of the new Willard.
 Secretary Loeb was engaged at the moment and not recognizing the name sent Assistant Secretary Barnes to inter view the caller and ascertain the nature of her business. While waiting a response 1 to her card, Mrs. Morris paced up and down the reception room of the executive offices, appearing to be laboring under suppressed excitement
 Wanted to See President.
 As soon as MT. Barnes made himself known to her, she informed him that she wanted to see the President. She told
 
 discharged from the government service and she wanted to demand from the Pres ident his reinstatement or at least to discuss the matter with him. MT. Barnes explained to her that the President had nothing to do with such subjects and that she had better take up the matter with the head of the department from which her husband had been discharged Mrs Morris was not to be put off in that way. She declared in a loud tone that she had come to see the President and pro- posed to see him even if she had to camp out there for a month. Again Mir Barnes informed her that it would not be possi- ble for her to interview the President on that subject and suggested to her that sch was making a scene and she might better go her way quietly. She refused to go and dared anybody to make her go.
 One of the white officers approached her, but she stepped backward and cried: Don't touch me- I'll sit down, but won't go away"
 She sat down in a convenient chair and as the officer approached she shook her finger at him and shouted: Don't you touch me-don't you dare to touch me. I'm 50 years old and never had an officers hands on me- I want to see the President"
 Resisted the Officer.
 The officer took her by the arm and tried to induce her to rise and go out quietly, but she refused to move. secret service man stepped forward and the two men had practically to lift Mrs Morris from her chair. She hung back, crying out distressingly, but the officers man aged to get her outside the door. They tried to lead her away but she re- fused to go and dropped down on the wet and muddy pavement
 As Mrs. Morris is a large woman the officers had difficulty in handling her, but they eventually picked her up bodily and with the assistance of one of the White House servants, carried her screaming to the police call box on the east side of the White House. From there a call was sent in for a patrol wagon When the wagon arrived. Mrs. Morris re- fused to enter it and hysterically begged the bystanders to help her. She was forced to get in the wagon and was taken to the house of detention. There she was placed under the care of the matron, [ who succeeded in calming her Thus far no charge has been filed against Mrs. Morris. She has been a guest of the New Willard for about three weeks. registering from the District of Co., ! lumbia.
 Mrs. Morris Is the wife of pr. Minor Morris of this city, and is younger sister of Representative Hull of Iowa, chairman of the House committee on mill