| Show A QUESTION OF 01 m Ot Of course courso It III i to see leo how many influential papers take taka un an entire entirely I ly opposite view on lie Questions In voled In the tho Roberts case caso In Congress from those exore expressed sed b by the Salt Luke Lake organ of the tho lormon crusade hut But the tho troth lruth should be told when it is necessary sary to combat error and there therefore therefore fore while to harrow up the feel teel Inga ot of our contemporary we 0 clip the following from the York Sun Ir dr Geo George e II 11 Hepworth writing to the No New York herald from Crom WashIngton In III regard to hue tho ease said yes yesterday 09 It IL Is I think beyond n a Ques thin Hon that Mr lIr Roberts will not remain In n his Ide seat even if IC h he Is permitted for tor forthe th the sake sako o of precedent to take It So far ns as principle Is concerned ho holer ever ler It makes all the difference In the Ole world whether wether the from lit Is kept out ot of the house of now or Is turned out been admitted To keep him out no now Is to require II a qualification for admission to Congress Contress which is 18 not prescribed by the tho Con Constitution Ir If the majority ot of the House o of ran ean add a single one olle to Ic the constitutional for or membership the they ran cnn multiply the lie re requirementS indefinitely and it IC such n a power is III once onre recognized I will 11 surely bl be tx exercised to the injury of the minor minority It ity party In Congress whenever an any groat grent exigency seems to do de the tho exclusion of particular pet song chosEn to CO Congress The Ion don o of a polygamist even if IC ho he has forty wives wIVIS Is n a matter of small conse conae consequence qU quence to the tho establishment nt of a 11 ent denying the riGht of II a Congressional constituency to be i I by any one whom the tho people see fit to el et provided ho lie tho three ru required by the Federal M II tiC expelled from lie hoUSe It if lie he hUll hue be ll guilty of any by time tho rc i e quiche sote ote lilt It Is nn an interesting liOt filot that Mr Bob nob erts tl In the thO organization of tho so far as to vote oto for tor tho candidate for tor Speaker Vho rho atutes o of the tho United that before the first ot of each Congress the cleric of t house of n shall make a roll roil of oC tM the and place thereon the names or of those and or of such uth 1111 credentials show that tha t they erO elected In ac with the lne of oC their Staten re respectively or the tue laws ot of th Alexander McDowell the clerk or of the last I 0 USI a roll of the new House In accordance with this huts of law and upun that rol roll n aPpeared peard the lie name n r H fbi noh erie erts ot of Utah The he rote ote for tor wal vas taken before ni any of the wor were sworn In After tr fr hendersons l ton the tue oath or of office sync to him him I by Mr lIar Har Harmer mer or of Pell the and 10 in c the tho then proe proceeded ed to lter icIer the the members and dole themselves It presented In front MIJo Speakers LUS as their names weN culled b by States aria Teri Tern tories The Tho s ng In of oC th the Speaker and es Is regulated by this thie the Revised the Bub was originally en enacted acte acted In f i At the 1 fir first t of nt at atter ter every s election o at the oath of oC olce shall b be mI ad administered ministered by any l member ot of the house of oC nt hs to the Speaker r and by tM the k r to nil all the and amid delegates pr serit nent and to the previous to 0 In n any other busi bUli business ness and ami tl the member memberS and nd dole dele delegates gates Who ho afterward appear preVious to their their seatS speaking the requirement tint that the tho SJ r shall be sworn In iii b by bya a 11 member or of the cannot bl be corn com pled plied wih with ChI a dOs does not become I a member until lie he hn has taken the Oath tn of oC A reasonable Inter interpretation of oC the provIsion which we have quoted demands lint I It sll shall b be construed to lo permit the 01 oath th to bl be n ad administered ministered to the Speaker I by nn any on one whoso whose credentials show him to have b been n lawfully lle elected ted 1 a Representative Under thin cOnstruction tr lr Roberts coul could ho have admInistered the oath oth to Speaker Henderon henderson just n as lawfully and just ns as properly I us Mr Inner And I it Is I no also to b be note noted that It wan olly the tho mere incident of oC alphabetical arrangement lint enabled 1 a large ma or of the to as members before the name or of Mr Hobertf was called and objection van made ronde to his taking the oath 1 IC his had happened to be the frt first firstin In the delegation from th the StAte frt first on the tho rol roll lere there would have been n no qualifIed member present to object to admission Inemer with the single exception or of the Speaker himself The party lies has oten often truly basted boasted that It Is n a party part of courage We r regret gret to observe that It Is not act lag Ing courageously In this matter of oC Roberta Nothing C can be mor more ridic ulous than to charge one with sympathy because ho he insists thy with polygamy Insist that the rights of oC a Representative elect let shall not no be flagrantly In a plain violation of oC the provisions of the Constitution I It would be just ns as sensible to accuse a person or of once to tG murder because he preferred an orderly trial and n a lawful execution a In cases o of felonious homicide to the wicked methods of Inch lynch 1 law |
