The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-05
WOMAN MADE SCENE
SISTER or CONGRESSMAN HULL
 CARRIED FROM WHITE HOUSE.
Insisted on Seeing the President in Re- gard to the Dismissal of Her Husband from Govern
 menf Service

Washington, Jan. IA distressing scene was enacted at the White House executive offices today in which a wo- man was carried screaming from the building. because she refused to leave without resort to force.
 About o'clock a handsomely att tired woman, apparently about 50 years old. entered the executive offices and Inquired for Secretary Loeb. Through messenger she sent her card to the Secretary. On the card was engraved, Mrs. Minor Morris, and writ ten 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 interview the caller and ascertain the nature of her business. While await ing response to her card, Mrs. Morris paced up and down the reception room of the executive offices appearing to be laborfng under suppressed excitement. As soon as Mir. Barnes made himself known to her, she informed him that she wanted to see the President. She told Mir. Barnes that her husband had been discharged from the government service and she wanted to demand from the President his reinstatement. or at least to discuss the matter with him.
 MT. Barnes explained to her that
 
 such subjects and that she better take up the matter with the head of the de- partment from which her husband had been discharged. Mir. Morris was not to be put of in that way.
 Proposed to See President.
 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 month. Again MT. Barnes informed here that 1t would not be possible for her to interview the President on that subject and sug- gested to her that she was making a scene and she might better go her way quietly. She refused to go and dared anybody to try to make her go.
 One of the White House officers ap- proached her but she stepped backward and cried: Don't touch me; I'll sit oown 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 yoI dare to touch me. I'm fifty years old and never had an officers hands on mo. I want to see the President"
 The officer took her by the arm and tried to induce her to rise and go out quietly but she refused to move. A secret service officer stepped forward and the two men had practically to lift GIfS. lTOIlf htE CneA1Is Ch@ nuns back crying out distressingly, but the officers managed to get her outside the door. They tried to lead her away but she refused to go and finally dropped down on the wet and muddy pavement.
 Picked Her Up Bodily.
 As Mrs. Morris is 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 wagon.
 When the wagon arrived Mrs. Morris refused to enter it and hystericafly begged the bystanders to help her. She was forced to get into the wagon and was taken to the house of detention. There she was placed under the care of the matron who succeeded in calm ing her.
 Mrs, Morris has been a guest Of the New willard for about three weeks. registering from the District of Co., lumfia. She is the wife of Dr. Minor Morris of this city and IS younger sister of Representative Hull of Iowa, chairman of the House committee on Military Affairs About 1900 Dr. Nor ris was appointed a clerk in the office of the Surgeon General and in April, 1902. he was discharged. The reasons were not specifically stated in the of- ficIal record of the case.
 Mrs Morris was released from the house of detention shortly after o'clock this afternoon and returned to the New Willard. She refused to see any callers.