Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-18
MADE ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT
Senator TiIlman, of South Caro-
lima Shows His Ignorance in
Speech Made Yesterday.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The eject
ment of Mrs. Minor Morris of this city
from the White House came up in the
senate in the course of an address by
Senator Tillman Dem, S. c. attack
ing the administration Tillman was
relating the incidents and arraigning
the president when Mr.. Hale (Rep.,
Me- arose and strongly reprimanded
his South Carolina colleague.
Said MI. Hale: ''The senator is max
ing statements which he cannot verify.
He is making a spectacle which is de
plorable and which the senate ought
not to be required to submit TO. | do
not believe he ought to be permitted to
use this incident as an excuse to graft
fly his personal spite against the presi-
dent"
Mr.. 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-
t~emptuously, "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 a letter of sym.
pathy to Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter,
and invite to the White House physical
trainers and jiu jitsu artists and pride
himself on his physical formation and
indulge the strenuous life, but he
couldn't find time to investigate the
case of q poor woman maltreated and
abused by his 'underlings.'"
Mr.. Tillman said his heart had been
touched by the Morris incident. He
related. his voice broken with enc
ton and tears streaming from his eyes,
how one eyewitness to the Morris mat.
ter, a gentleman of honorable reputa-
ton, had wept afterward because he
had not interfered as an American to
prevent the police officers from NAL
treating Mrs. Morris.
Mr.. Tillman made a motion that an
investigating committee of five sena-
tors land he suggested he would pre-
fer that all were Republicans be APP
pointed.
Mr.. Hopkins Rep., Ill declared that
the investigation was out of place. The
senate had no right to investigate the
presidents personal affairs any more
than the president had a right to in
vestigate the affairs of the senator
from South Carolina.
Mr.. Daniel Dem. Na.) rose n eX-
pressed regret that Mr.. 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 Mr.. Tillman's
peculiar expressions and was charac-
teriZed by many severe and exception
ally personal thrusts at the president.
Mr.. Tillman said the president had
~transgressed the cnnons of a century
in carrying into effect a treaty that
had never been ratified. 1T 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 Theodore Roosevelt in
order to get him to hear at ALL"
Speaking of Morales flight, Mr.. Till
MAJ said that he expected to hear of
him next as holding Il position III the
rious?" he asked.