Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-07
BARNES, APPOINTMENT.
Said by Mr.. Brundage to Be an Out
rageous Insult.

The ejectment of Mrs. Minor Morris from
the White House executive ofhces on jan
uary last furnished the text for a saw
age attack on President Roosevelt Assist
ant Secretary Barnes and various White
House subordinates by Representative
Brundage of Arkansas on the floor of the
House this afternoon. Mr.. Brundage crit
icised the President very severely on ac-
count of various items in the sundry civil
bill, particularly those appropriating S25, 900
for the travelling expenses of the President
and friends and the $50 eco appropriated for
new White House stables. Mr.. Brundage
called attention to the fact that the yearly
expenses of the White House under Presi-
dent Roosevelt are SIG, 100 more than under
Cleveland
THE ordinary expenses were $40 COO un
der Mckinley and are $4,000 under Rooee-
welt. He reproved the President for not CIV
ing his reasons for the increased and new
expenditures In regular message to Con-
gress instead of going to few committee
members in a roundabout and underhand
way. He referred to the residents re-
quest for new White House stables and to
the chief executives statement that the
old stables were so unhealthy that he had
been forced to send his five saddle horses
elsewhere. Mr.. Brundage said he did not
know and had not been able to find out
how much this had cost the government,
but that he hoped at least that the Presi-
dents high steppers We're now in some spot
where the air was cool and refreshing and
the scenery marvelously beautiful.
Then getting down to business Mr. Brun-
dage took up the Mrs. Minor Morris incl
dent.
'The throwing out of Mrs Morris from
the White House. he cried, was a dis
grace to the AMERICAN people. II Was tlis..
graceful IN the extreme Mrs. Morris went
to the White House on peaceful mission.
Her. only desire to see the President.
When these gallant heroes and brave men
at the White House risked their personal
security in expelling Mrs. Morris from that
magnificent mansion 1t would seem that
order, decency and propriety would sug-
gest that the unfortunate affair stop then
and there. But such was not the case for
after that incident this fine lot of police
men went around Washington looking in
the department stores. investigating here
and there and writing letters TO other
cities and other states to discover evidence
that would show some blot the cflarac-
ter of the woman SO unJustly, outrageously
and disgracefully elected. applause on
the democratic side-)
MFR. Chairman, all this in my judgment,
was violation of all the creeds of de-
Ceney and integrity alike. But even this
was not all. If these gentlemen concerned
ought to be retained l suppose 1 have Moth
ing to say. But lately we have learned
that the honorable gentleman who gave
the order that Mrs. Morris be elected has
been rewarded by the chief executive by
an appointment to one of the highest or
fies within the Presidents gift, He has
been nominated to be postmaster at Wash
iEgton. This. again, only confirms the
truth OF the old saying that virtue has its
own reward applause on the democratic
side)
Il don't know Barnes and / don't want
to. But his appointment as postmaster at
Washington was an outrageous insult to
tho people of Washington. 1t was, In It's
way, as great insult to the people of
Washington as was the throwing out OF
Mrs. Morris to the unhappy victim con-
cerned. The people of Washington should
rise up and protest against the contirma-.
ton of Barnes"