Show DISCUSSION OF ROUERTS Loronzo Snow Is cold to RobertsPittz burg Telegraph rlsPlt9 0 0 0 The ttoberts committee sends in two re porlt a majority and minority but con trary to iho usual rulo minoriy canes titer are both against t time defendant St l Paul Press Prssf C S 0 Mr Roberts may be moved to complain I that In his case Congress failed to live up to its fame for proscrasllnatlon Wash I ington Star a a 4 Tho Congresalal commltleo thai was appointed to investigate time case of Brig 0 Brlr namlsl Roberts haa brought In an adverse report and all hut three women and a girl In thin broad land of ours breathe easIerChlLago TimesHerald UTAH BOBS How do you bupposc Roberts feels by this tlmo I wager ho wlhos he was thnt other Roberts who has gone to fight the Boers Indianapolis Journal p t Its ns broad ns Its long for Roberts but Its not so long as Its broad for the House of Representatives It Is I caso with tho House of Representatives I hear a lion In the lobby l roar Say Mr Speaker shall we shut the door And keep him out Or shall wo lot him In And see It we cant turn him out again Butte Miner 0 0 ROBERTS TO BE EXCLUDED According to tho mW from the Capitol today the Roberts committee will report I unanimously against tho right of the Utah man to sIt as a member of the lloubc Seven of the nine members be llovo he should be excluded from membership mem-bership while time two others a Republican Repub-lican and a Democrat hold that ho should ant first settled und then expelled Tim public at lingo Is not concerned as to the precise processes of exclusion That li a mutter for time House to deiterniluo according 10 its lights What Inlerc3ln tho peoples it I that the Institution of polygamy po-lygamy In this country has rcrolvcd a serious blow from which It will probably nocr recover For It has been proved by this proceeding that not only hay the practice of plural marriages been continued con-tinued since tho enactment of the Edmund Ed-mund law and tin admission of the Slate In dellauco of limo pledges given hut that the people of Utah undoubtedly knowing Roberts to be C polygamlst In violation of the law and tho States violaton elected him to Congress as their I representative This disclosure must re uct upon tho Mormon church to the extent i ex-tent of putting n decided premium upon nu honest observance of the laws and the pledge IU forL If the State cannot bo represented repre-sented In Congress by a polygamlst cy cry Candidae for that ofllce must bo subocted to the closest scrutiny ns to his scruLny availability This scrutiny will be wholesome l whole-some Tho moral effect of this formal oflHal und onpnrllsan refuiallon of tho Mormon pretense that polygamy has not I been recently practiced will surely be far icaohlnff ihus aside from the mere I nuestlon of Robertas right to a cal the outcome qletlOI of lit inquiry makes for better morals In Utah u fuller observance of I mornlt ruler the Htaiules a moro decani respect for j tho American public sentiment and a I more shvero regard for tho Territorys 1 oath of SlnlelTood Washington Slur j t |