Show 5f fj ST nls ms o 5 PAY TIED 1 UP Tn j 24 ml c w I i53nir J ROJerlss s Miea b Clerk Hire and Stationery 13k s O Hell 11 k Alt S laitfaii ER L EP I UTAHN IS S DENOUNCED AND Orrao i Lt ubbart nU Proceedings Enlivened by USWs Woman Prosecutor AD learlnr ddr cJ L MRS J ELLEN FOSTER HEARD S 72 E1 n muf j ic ilat 1 AS nil w She Appealed to the Taylcr Commit i electrl sizes tee in the Name of the Women of and y lurattj America Informed the Committee irk sla9 that Women of Country were Surprised tix Sur-prised that they Had Not Compelled > aper Com-pelled Roberts to Make n Clear quIpp Statement as to Whether He was g A < M nlBjj Guilty or Not as ChargedShe Also GLARJJ Al-so Denounced tho Polygamist for rrlbunc cfE Not Publicly Acknowledging His 1y CL WivesMr Schroeder Makes Argument EE = Ar-gument Against the Seating of Mr Roberts Tho Polygamist to Speak in His Own Behalf Today i oJ epairin sollcltei TRIBUNE BUREAU 501 Fourteenth street > j Washington D C Jan 4 1 1000 The proceedings in the Roberts case 6th E oday were enlivened by the presence I ± of 3 woman prosecutor In the person oC 1n J Ellen Foster tho wellknown womans rights advocate L Before Mrs Foster made her argu I deal of attention attracted greatdcal T 2nd ment she atrcted a great S tention The committeeroom was KSt pretty well crowded with spectators Mrs Fosler was the only woman and naturally everybody was curious to know who she was Some wag started I iCfl the report that she was one of Mr PrcsL Roberts wives and in an Instant alee r eyes wer focused upon her lliSt DELUSION DISPELLED iiliTY1J When Mrs Foster began speaking the delusion was soon dispelled Mrs Foster confronted Mr Roberls with leIay 1 her hands clasped back of her her atl whole body In rigid pose She paused for n moment and stared ferociously at the memberelect but the latter seemed or dl1 memberelct laler semec r undisturbed by anything that was directed r1Jt di-rected at him Had Mrs Foster reached out her hand she could have touched BOIUO the man whom she was denouncing She refrained however from this familiarity i miliarity APPEALED IN NAME OF WOMEN Itteuh1O Mrs Foster made her appeal for the I expulsion of Sir Roberts In the name I = sss of women of America She prefaced her remarks with the statement that she knew that the women would be glad when It was known that she had I t1 npoken for them and then In a rather 5 = msm dramatic manner submitted quite an S elaborate argument COUNTRY SURPRISED Sn OSG Among other things she Informed the lala committee that the women of the country 6 coun-try were surprised that It had not compelled com-pelled Roberts to make a clear statement ATlN state-ment whether he was guilty or not a charged She stated that such would 5 liic have facilitated the Investigation Because Be-cause such proceedings had not been Instituted she announced that she was surprised and disappointed DENOUNCED THE UTAHN TING ± ne She turned upon the memberelect irOl I and denounced him for not publicly pcrlCflC S acknowledging his wives Had he d come here with that chivalry which Is expected of men and said I did It as LIES he should have In Justice to his wives and children even that would havo commanded admiration from the women I C5t wo-men of the country GIVEN PLENTY OF TIME It was evidently the committees Intention In-tention to give the lady all the time she desired to present what she had to iiII Bay on the subject She asked for ten minutes but was told that her lime would not be limited as the commllleo did not want tho Impression to go out tlSlj aho had not been offered ample opportunity to speak She however consumed but little more than the time iJt g oho asked ROBERTS SPEAKS TODAY Mr Roberts Intended to make his argument this afternoon but owing lo iCL the lateness of the hour when r Foster Fos-ter closed he nollfied the commltleo that he would make his defense tomorrow tomor-row morning tgt8se HIS PAT HELD UP The pay of Mr Ttoberts H8 Representative Repre-sentative for December his mileuK n1 clork hire and stationery accounts have a all ben hold up Robert sid tonight that there were about sioo due him nnd that hn not only hnd hopes of getting TO8I 1 hiD get-ting case U but of finally winninG out In |