Show TUB THE ROBERTS CASE Indianapolis After profound of tim tho ease case of or Mr Roberts R c bertl of or Utah tee congressional committee star startles ties IN flie tIec country by finding Anding that root he is a No report has baa yet been made m oil Cit the sultan of However o v vm ir l stay may be ed as that if it the e sultan m mt should foe be elected to congress he will viii be and that Is a very correct pro procedure oe A man faithfully serve the he slate eMte te and take core care of three wives at atone atone one tine and the same time Los liOS Angeles H Herald Her It does not matter mattev matt mattSO so much in the case e of Roberts R berts whose relegation to private priva te life ute is certain but bat batie I the ie Acceptance of the majority report will establish a dangerous precedent making It possible Ie for an unscrupulous un s majority I to exclude members of the opposItion fit I from the hOWe house altogether regardless of I tb The acts and Mr Robert RobertI pointed this out in the early days of the hearing in his case cue and perhaps this prejudiced some gome of the members of ot the house hoUBe committee but the contention has weIght Helena Independent Quietly the tip has gone from the White House to the big in Salt Lake that If the ilor Mor mona mon will VIII get into line Une for the Republican party the crusade against II polygamy will willbe willbe ill be called off olT St SI Louis lands Utah has bas a law Jaw S polygamy The course of the house bouse of representatives will constrain the rhe people of that state to take especial pains to tu enforce ft It particularly against men who are to go to congress Until a new choice Is made by Utah that state stale will be in the popular branch of th the notional national legislature Louisville Lo llIe Courier Cour Journal It 11 is not Roberts at M all nil that is in issue in deciding between teen b the two reports of the commit committee committe committee tee te It Is to the future we Wi have haTe to look looR The rights of representatives here hereafter hereafter after ater to be elected may be effected affected by b tho UK precedent now made Roberts Roberta will wm have to go In any event eveRt But the mere prece precedent dent of halting a member at the bar of the house hou e on the mere false raise statement of another member that he is ineligible is isono isono isone ono one of ofa a ft very portentous character It watt was employed In the days When the con constitution was suspended ed to keep members member tram frem Kentucky Ke out om of or thel r seats until an investigation wa WItS made Their prima fade facie to their scats seata was as 58 good as all that jot Df 0 any nn other member if It this Uris system were applied generally it would be hn its Imi i we to organise the house boWie ci t all aH if objection were made to tt a majority of or those elected Thus the system of stop stopping ping member on Oft an n objection from an another anether ether other be bI applied without partial partiality partiality ity It Time That alone aone is sufficient to It n it The report of 0 r the tb minority of the connote committee tee therefore lefore th sc S ms to be dodd decidedly edly odi preferable |