Show THE COfiGRESSMANEJECT There can be no Impropriety now In styling BrUfham > T Roberts tho Congress inanirjcct Sun lrinclsco Chronicle W H Roberts Is still aakinK for his mileage Sprint Is coming and his large assortment assort-ment of vlr need new millinery I > lttt > burg Telegraph I would seem as If tho HOUKC atir expelling Mormon Roberls and vindicat lug n principle should he liberal enough I to allow his salary and inltongo claim II I Such ullowonco Is usually made nil con I testants and as Robert was duly etcliM 1 I by the people or Utah It was his duty to them to make a contest for tho enl Minneapolis Journal 9 a S y Roberts of Utah la i on his way home I shedding wrath as ho iKHi Ho thinks Cptrc M Is too exclusive Milwaukee Wisconsin o i CongressmanklckedoiLt Roberts of Utah my ho will not bo a candidate for rcelccilon There Is i nothing strange about thai It 1 rarely ever necessary lo Wok a man out of your house moro than once Iowa RegisterS l Register-S BrIgham H Roberts now threatens to sue for S2000 salary as Congressman declaring Congc = daring that he will carry Ins ease to the highest court In the land 1f Jio4tasary < Judging by the testimony adduced before the Congressional committee Roberts had better htL cp ns far away from the courts as possible or ho may land In tho lock up Oakland Tribune S Mr Roberts of Utah has tiled a claim with the sergeantatarms t the House for 2rO for salary and mileage Ho will probably apply for a pension uextLos Angeles Herald I MR ROBERTS OF UTAH 1 was the contention of the famors I of the majority report to the House of Representatives In tho eligibility CRU of Mr Roberts of Utah that them was nb solute disqualification by reason of the I claimants violation of tho Edmunds law prohibiting polygamy that the House posaoMed Inherent power of exclusion which should be exercised against a de a fiant lawbreaker r and that the State of I rink had broken tho pletlso and covenant covcnJnt undor which It had bean admitted Into Iho Union in sending to Washington as its al Itl I i I representative In Congress a conspicuous practitioner of the very evil the abandon mont of which was a condition precedent I to the admbslon of 1tah to the prevlkfjca of Statehood The House of ReproBonta tves ttdopl this view by a votn of 5 > S to I CO and It Llands accordingly I as iho dc cl lvo Judgmcut of that body lu regard to tho adrnlirton to membership of a poll 1 amUt from Utah behalf of the i It him been aruM on clulrnujit thut hf should br permitted to take the oath of office bcau no had been elected to rpre nt bin Slate In Oonjrw and by virtue of ouch election wa entitled to a < lnil lon to his seat clerly enough the Sine March 4th last cortlflcato or elation Iwued to Mr hob t rriai ha been effective In conferring upon i him a Ktat us an a member of Congree Ho cotild exercise the rankIng privilege rclvr und distribute Government publication publi-cation draw salary trom the Federal trraicury nnd enjoy on occasion the 1m munitlen granted bv law to a Congressman Congress-man when engaged In public businesS Thttr are many and wrious objection to I I tho policy of peremptory exclusion sane honed by the House In this Instance anti i none of throe wax omitted In the presentation presen-tation to that body of the view entertained enter-tained by the minority of the special committee appoints to investIgate and report on the case But tho determination of a lurgo majority of tho memlwTa to establish a precedent In this instant Droved stronger than any argument based on constitutional grounds and no Robert wan forced to Stel > down umi out Only eightyone members out of a total of XS1 present nml voting were willing to adopt the vlov of the minority of the committee thai Mr Roberts ought to be permitted if take the oath on his certificate of election elec-tion and thereafter expelled It 1 lion been urged upon the Uouio that 1 this action adverse to the claims of mem bershlp of a Utah polyprmlst may return to plaguo tho lawmakers at the national capital Certainly the ernentlally scntl 1 mental view that the House must stand guard over the morals of Its members I could not bo pushed to an extreme length I without Incurring tho rink of a nodal and 1 political convulsion In Washington Thero I need be no apprehennlon therefore of un I undue stretch of Congressional authority in thin direction Tho practical expulsion I I of Mr Roberts was duo to hilt peculiar entanglements with Fodnral laws relating to polygamy and the application of the I precedent created will doubtless be con 1 lined to cases originating In the > rand r-and hotbed of MormonMm There IH no design anywhere to set aside the Constitution Consti-tution but there IR an absolute Intent to keep I polygamlsta out of Congress at all I Philadelphia Record Worn I |