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Show ROBERTSJXCLUDEDi Vote Was 268 to 50 in Favor of Majority Resolution. Mr. Roberts Issues a Statement Justifying Maintaining His FamiliesWill Fam-iliesWill Not Seek a Re-Election. Re-Election. Washington, Jan. 27. B. H. Roberts, the Mormon representative elect from Utah, was excluded from congress by a vote of 20S to 50. The exact language of the resolution was as follows: fol-lows: "That under the tacts and circumstances circum-stances of the case Brigham H. Roberts, Rob-erts, representative-elect from the state of Utah, ought not to have or hold a seat in the house of representatives, and that the seat to which he was elected is hereby declared vacant." The amendment toexpelMr. Roberts without seating him. offered by Mr. Lacey, was ruled out on a point of order or-der and the house only voted on the resolutions of the majority and minority minor-ity of the committee. The latter, to seat ana then expel Mr. Roberts, was defeated, 81 to 244. An analysis of this vote shows that 70 Republicans. 72 Democrats and two Populists voted against it and 71 Democrats, Dem-ocrats, six Republicans, two Topulists and two Silver Republicans for it. BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS. The majority resolutions, to exclude Mr. Roberts and declare the seat vacant, va-cant, were adopted, 268 to 50. 'The affirmative vote was divided as follows: Republicans, 168; Democrats, 9G; Populists, Popu-lists, 4; and the negative vote: Democrats, Demo-crats, 47; Silver Repuplicans, 2; Populists, Popu-lists, 1. There were over a score of speakers today, and the closing speeches on each side were particularly able. Mr. Lanham of Texas closed for the majority major-ity and Mr. De Armond of Missouri for the minority. Mr. Roberts was present throughout the day and left the hall after the result re-sult of the last vote had been announced. announc-ed. As lie did so he gave out a statement state-ment justifying- his retention of his plural wives on the ground that his moral obligation was more binding upon his conscience than technical obedience to statutory laws, and saying say-ing that there was little excuse for the extraordinary efforts to crush a system sys-tem already abandoned and practically dead. He said he was a martyr to a "spasm of prejudice." He would not, he said, attempt to run for congress again, although he would go back home with a light heart confident of the future. |