Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-27
PRINTED FOR SENATORS
Elk PARTE STATEMENT REGARD
ING THE NORRIS CASE.
Testimony Ia Rebuttal Refused
Barnes Nomination to Be Taken
Up Monday.

Senators today received confidential
prints of al the statements that have
been in the possession of the Senate COM
rnittee on post Offices and post roads in re-
iation to Mrs. Morris, and especially in ref
erence to her ejectment from the White
House Offices. These statements were
placed before the committee in connection
with the nomination of Mr.. Benjamin F.
Barnes to be postmaster of this city.
Extensive comment is being made on the
remarkable action of the committee in hav-
ing these statements printed for circula-
ton among members of the Senate and re-
fusing to permit any testimony in rebuttal
to accompany them. These statements
company a report of the committee on the
Barnes nomination. The report is little
more than summary of what the accom-
panyfng statements show.
Unsigned Statements.
The comment on this remarkable pro-
ceeding is directed especially toward the
fact that these statements are not signed.
They simply appear In the papers in re-
lation to Mr.. Barnes case. as the state
ments of the various persons whose names
are indicated, but except in a very few
cases no signature Is attached to the origi-
nal paper.
Senator Tillman, it is understood. went
over this so-calied testimony before the
committee, and claimed that he had wit
nesses to disprove absolutely a very large
portion or the statements that were made,
and which were relied upon by the commit
tee to guide its Judgment in reporting upon
Mr.. Barnes nomination. Mr.. Tillman
claimed that in a number of cases the evil
dence If permitted to be taken by the COM
mittee would in most thorough way de-
molish the statements that have now been
circulated among senators. But the COM
mittees simply refused yesterday to allow
any such proceeding. The committee de-
clared that 1t would not call witnesses to
refute these statements, and forthwith pro-
ceeded to circulate the statement that had
been branded as filled with error among
senators for their information
To Be Taken Up Monday.
An arrangement has been made by which
Mr.. Barnes nomination win go over until
next Monday afternoon. At that time the
Senate will go into executive session, and
the Barnes nomination will be under discus
sion
A new plea has been set up with reference
to this matter. 1t was devised, 1t is said
by some of the lawyers on the committee,
who take the ground that Mr.. Barnes was
not responsible for the ejectment of Mrs
Morris from the White House offices. or at
least that he was not responsible for the
brutality that was exercised In connection
with her ejectment.
This has proved to be somewhat of a sur
prise to very many persons, who refer to
the fact that after Mrs. Morris was taken
to the house of detention the officers there
communicated with Mr.. Barnes in relation
to what should be done with her. The whole
circumstances, 1t is declared, are such as to
indicate that these private officers, while
nominaIly under control of the metropolitan
police force, were actually under the direct
supervision of the White House officials
and in that way Mr.. Barnes control of the
case could not be evaded.
Intimation of Insanity.
1t Is also understood that these papers
that have now been printed for the "infor-
nation of the Senate, well as the cir
cumstances connected with the ejectment of
Mrs. Morris, undertake to show, or at least
intimate very strongly, that Mrs Morris
has been, or was at the time of her eject
ment, insane. This by many members of
the Senate is regarded as one of the most
serious phases of Mrs. Morris treatment.
They declare that such an unwarranted
stigma should not be permitted to rest
against her without holding an investiga-
ton which would give her an opportunity
to have such charges either proved or dis
proved.