Show HE KNOWS BET1ER I B IL Roberts Is very sensitive apparently ap-parently on the subject of his being an Informer on his brother polygamlsts I when he was making his showing In Washington Ho Is likewise trying to I I establish that the he I reason was per I scouted was because he was a Democrat I Demo-crat He knows much better The vote In Congress shows how Congress fell Had he been admitted on his papers and then a motion to expel him had been offered he knows perfectly well I I that of thu fifty votes cast against his I exclusion quite forty would have been cast for his expulsion He Insists that no compact or covenant has been broken that the only tiling stipulated for In the enabling act or the ConstitutIon Constitu-tIon was that there should be no more marriages In polygamy I Now the truth Is that when tho enabling en-abling act was granted and when the Constitution was being framed It was universally understQod that the living in polygamy In Utah had ceased And it practically had The record of the bIrths of polygamous children In Utah for j about three years show the truth of < that statement There Is another proof I stilL That Is the action of the first State Legislature which was strongly Mormon In giving legitimacy to Mormon children born up to n certain cer-tain date The woman In Seer county gave the whole thing away nearly two years ago In these words When the manifesto mani-festo was Issued I settled with Brother Broth-er Bher polygamous husband and we were getting along all right until some of the twelve came down here last winter and told B that he had got to live his religion and wo havo had only trouble since There were the manifesto the testi I mony of President Woodruff the promise prom-ise of Delegate Rawllns the petition for amnesty and the amnesty proclamations procla-mations of two Presidents 11 showing what the understanding was When Roberts Just prior to his election elec-tion made his assault on Gov Wells charging that the Governor had said nothing about his being In polygamy when he ran for Congress before the Governor answered that at thai lime tme he had no Idea that Roberta was then living In polygamy More Roberts I knows thai had the Gentiles who helped to frame the Constitution had any Idea that the living In polygamy had not ceased they would not have been there Roberts cannot to save his life make any substantial showing that there was not a solemn covenant that the practicing of polygamy hud ceased or that what has happened since Is not a shameful breaking of faith with a generous nation |