The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-12
CAPITAL FOLK
ARE INDIGNANT
Over Rough Treatment Of Woman
in Ejecting Her from White House.
LAME EXPLANATION MADE
Issued By Secretary Barres Which
Docs Not Tany in Principal Points
With Story of Mrs. Morris.

Inc torcible election of Mrs. Minor
Morris from the white house in Wasn-
iHSton last Thursday, mas since uvGIs
the universal subject OF conversatloI
i'll the city. In select society tt
anair has been talked about and q
most without exception extreme CT
icism is expressed OF the whole
fair.
Secretary Barnes, who seems
have been responsible for at least
commencement of the proceeding
sued a statement Friday regard.
the affair. His statement differs Il
terially from the story told by MI
Morris and some OF the eye-witnesses.
Grouping the stories, however, to
some extent, the facts seem to be that
Mrs Morris, respectable woman,
not insane, whose husband had BEEN
an officer in the army medical corps.
and who had been dismissed, WEI
to the white house in, an effort to Il
her case before the president.
She saw Secretary Barnes, who TOLD
heT the president could. not see ha
and, then, after some conversation, c
scribed by Secretary Barnes as disc
derby, he ordered the policemen to r.
mcme her
This election was carried out wit
great vigor Mrs Morris, being car
riedi and dragged from the white house
across the asphalt walks and finally
bundled into a cab and taken to the
house of detention, two policemen ar
a cC1ored man taking part in the
moval General opinion express
was that the president would. ORC.
an investigation of the affair VIII
would be thorough and serious.
Barnes statement, in part, Isl as
lows
Mrs. Morris called at the execu
| Office, Thursday at about / O'Clock
asked to be allowed to see the p.
| dent. At the time Secretary Loeb
| engaged with the president, and
Barnes saw her. Upon inquiry az
the nature of her business she stat.
with considerable reluctance that
/ husband had been unjustly dismi
| from a branch of the war department
that she did not propose to have ar,
| thing to do with the secretary q
war concerning it, but that she wan
cd the president to take it up am
see, that justice was done:
She was informed that the presl
dent could not give personal attantlo
to- such a matter and that the de-.
! ioit Of the secretary of war would Z
/ final She insisted that she must
the president, and was told thot -
| was out Of the question.
"She replied in a low voice.
| she would see him and that she wU
stay there until she did. She was tn,
advised to drop the matter an
| away quietly This, in still lou
tones, she refused to do. She w
| then told that she must either lea
/ the office at once, voluntarily, or
would be necessary to have her put
ont Of the building. At this she.
I shrieed at the top of her voice:
''I will not be put out rushed to.
/ a chair, threw herself into it, and
/ shouted, Don't you have any hands
| laid on me; am going to stay fe1 =
until 1 see the president.
"The officers repeatedly asked her
to stand up and walk quietly with
them so that they would not have to
force her, but she. refused to do so,
and defed them in shrieks that were
heard throughout the white house.
There is no truth whatever in tn
statement made by many of the Fl :
day morning papers that a negro 'at1
hold of Mrs. Morris, and assisted in
carrying her. One of the colored mes
sengers Of the office followed the po-
liceman, and gathered UP small arti-
cles such as were dropped in the wo-
mans struggles, but there was no
other foundation whatever for the
statement"