| Show 5 S S ROBERTS CASE IS HARD TODAY f i is to Keep Him Out of A SI His Seat a Hearing S 5 of the Case CaseS 7 i S tr Members Forced to Vote Tayler Exclusion Resolution Say They are arc Sort the tite Matter ter Came Up In This Form Resolution Likely to Offered by Richardson to 10 Have flave I and Then Makes Favorable j Naturalization Papers Al All Ial half an lo the Three Hours S Speech Today in ill the 1 Il s e eI I 5 SPECIAL TO TUE Washington D C De flee Jou now considering Roberta case Tyler Tayler or of Ohio and Richardson ot of Tennes Tenne E ag agreed d that debate debat should rn run for three hour hours one and I a hal half 01 on ech each Ilde Richardson lender leader offered ii a substitute to resolution ot or allowing Mr Nr to b be sworn and then Whole mater matter to the judiciary commit committee tee but I it II is blee believed that the TYer resolution wil cilI Jaes the House Houie Mr r Roberts is 18 very ery hopeful of ce ceas ald aspi My any one cars can Fe see that the sen sentiment n so e adore adverse to him on an yesterday Is on the tho wane today Around the c car mem members wise nr are to 10 vote te for the Gr are saying dying that t they cy Olee believe just the tho opposite and ond ate are sorry rl thirst that the tho mater matter was IS ever spoken or of until Mt Mr Roberts was IS seated I If the resolution pas passes Mr Roberts Wil will not b be allowed to participate In fh he ot of the Hous until the c cri m make makes Is its report debate Mr r Roberts wi vill rolo follow Taylor Tayler II In the Up to this hour U 4 p t as ther there h been nothing ot of especial interest II lei f cu case spoke for one hour In I nfl I port of hl his resolution when Mr r nm arlon andson took the nor floor He Is nol now t Ing while the House listens il I The galleries are aro welt el filled te wo li I II preponderating I It I is notable that ruy y Women It ae herl heard to ex express s being m made by lymp sympathy papers to crate create IW T Man Many members lr are seen el to shake tr Roberts hand and he ha has a n a very er favorable Im H Washington De Dec t the ton today WEre almost G as crowd crowded Id ed a as on yesterday the debate on tle i Roberts case being the attraction The reading of the tho message il tic ual Q a grat great attraction was tI completely i b by the universal In the disposition of the cu case of the Mormon ormon tep representative rum tt b Te The fact that of the pc pe In the glett galleries were pr women li noticeable and nag a tao tang ble manifestation of the interest of th fair sex In the result r Mr himsel himself entered the h U l labout about 1110 a m and be 1 Caine the cynosure of II all ee eyes Jut Just b tore fore the convened he tok took seat at he selected yesterday on th the ex X reuse rIght of the side No arant 1 a as to the time made available for debate upon the ret t Hou had bad t been n before the House At 12 Speaker Hender called the members to order Al All aro In their places Mr Ir no Roberts and ond stood wih with e h heads ads while the chaplain delivered his invocatIon After the reading ot of the journal hu hut hod t teen n concluded 11 lit annn from tto committee appointed esterdy to W upon the that tho President would iii 10 r t lag Immediately Major Pro den the clerk announced the mI f and It u l lonco once Ild laid before the The members Iselt listened attentively t to the reading 1 I It Wa was not expected that the nr at the m BO would be concluded beor before 3 cork In the JO and that the Roberts RobertI tal case would cem D up u immediately Immediate afterward S 0 An agreement Wil was hel b by each aIde shall have an hour half and out of this time a half shall be allowed to Mr Roberti snake a personal detente against th charges lIe had his original certificate of naturalization eminent of tim Mouse who have examined Pronounce as genuine and regular It believed the charge that Ir Was not legall bold It developed that Mr MinO Was not on the officiAl call of house so that In case f vote other action by the he would not be a participant Tins wan In accord with aP hour r that exception could be taken to this 5 The of the arid hours at he cort the Republicans gave It hearty round of The then the house Mr to refer the case in be of yesterday A resolution Rich provIding that It should be sworn irs sending in invest gallon of his care be made by the committee en Mr Taylor contended fIrs that hEr of of lb Edmunda law in rendered him in ineligible eligible by the eighth section of that act second that If since guilty of polygamy he Is ineligible under that act that It a polygamist withIn ho meaning of the decision of the Supreme court he is Ineligible independent of that statute further that the compact between Utah and the United justifies the House In refusing him ad Mr urged hat it would be bet bettee tee for the blouse to exclude AIr Rob Roberie erie than to expel him All the author authorities he said were against he right of the house to expel a member fur done prior to his election no matter how vIle they might be ThUd SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION The resolution by Mn Richardson war as follows Whereas Brigham II Roberts from the State of Utah has presented a of election in due and proper forn as a representative from eald S e therefore it resolved that without express ing any opinion as to the right or pr of his retaIning his seat In ad advance vance of any proper there of the said Brigham IL Is en titled to be sworn in as a ot this house upon his prima fade case further that then sworn in his credentials and alt tire papers in inS S relation to his right to retain his scat ho referred to the commIttee on tire judiciary instructions to thereon at the earliest practicable mo I I II i ADDRESS Mr Ia ler spoke in favor of the adoption of IsIs own resolution lie not urge its adoption he said it not by high ot duty The ConsIst ent he continued If It as that the it were not e added to The newer of Congress S tO halt the claimant at the door lie insisted was clear The ineligibIlity created by lion for crime was a power inherent in government irrespective of the utica lIe cited several cases to show that as a for the legislature had ample authority to Qualify a man rein holding When Mr began to speak ht Roberts left the seat he had been occupying and took a seat near the main aIsle where he could hear with greater ease Throughout Mr so flunks he eat facing his when ho turned to his desk to take takeS S notes of the Points to which he desired to reply ContInuIng Nr read a Ion of the supreme defining poly gamy Which stated of whether a man had contracted a plu sal marriage after the passage of the Edmunds Act and irrespective of whether he had since with a Plural wife he was guilty of polygamy if he still maintained the relation of husband to more than one wife Referring to the two of amnesty Ire argued that the claimant was in no better position than ho would lucre been hail no such proc been issued But higher than ho cIvil law was a law of civilize tion which demanded that one so taint etl should be excluded For opposing tho higher law a member was answer only to his conscience hIs country and lila constituents There were pro for such an appeal to te higher daw He cited the case of who had been guilty of sellIng and who upon Iris appearance at the bar at the house waa rejected air unfit to it In the The power and the right were inherent said Mr rayer It was only a of of and of precedent Iii all of his investigation and study of pree dent Mr Tayler salt iso had failed to find a singie case where the house had to assert upon proper mx Caslon Its right to halt a member at the bar when his for a ecat ere questioned lie quoted cx from McCreary on elections irs of his lie ro VIewed the cases of floyd Winchester and John II Rice of who has been stopped at the bar of the on the ground that they disqualified because been they had We are told said Mr in his voIce rInging ou clear ly a we are about to create an Precedent Why Mr the are doing this in the open gaze of S whole world not in a Ve are the of the pro Plo empoe to do tire as we it The Is eye upon us the u Ira that we can do no If but wrong we do obey It Mr concluding words Wore with a storm of both from lie floor and the The S however joined the in MR began speakIng in his onri behalf at 0 Richardson yielded him twenty lit fIrst Presented his While had been Poke In a high he and with or said two had pro claimed amnesty since his conviction for s misdemeanor denied that lie bad been a since and asked why Ire lint not beers Prosecuted If a lawbreaker Ho referred o the os a Conspiracy to thu subject to th front at this |
