Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-12 | Page 2 | Entitled to His Seat

1 ENTITLED lO 10 illS SEAT Expulsion WouW be nn an Un WIt Act by It If 1 Mr lr were to be expelled sImply b because lie he believes In MormonIsm Mormon Ism bm the Denver No the act would furnish a 11 dangerous precedent under which Methodists Catholics or some other might be expelled at some future time The proceeding against him however Ii 18 blued on his bt being an actual ami amlet st to refuse him a seat on ground The NeIl contInues to reo re regard card gard as a d dangerous be because cause being no national statute against polygamy ci applied to the Statu or liS as affecting the of oC members of COn his hll would be an arbitrary net art of power not warranted under the general authority given each loure of Congress under the This power being wIth wIthout without out limit hUntt should hould be with ox ex extreme caution It is entirely competent or Congress to make II a rule that no noman man who has red haIr shall be to n a seat fleat Willie While be carryinG the power to an extreme it 11 Illustrates how bow careful Congress should be In thIs matter In the ab absence nce of oC an any law or rule rulo as to either as to sit In Congress or holding federal ot of n l Mr tr Roberts is II entitled to a seat NOt All Mi future contests or of this kind should hould be pre rented b by enacting a law that no polygamist shall hold a federal ollice I Dt t any kind or character