Show hullt washington jan 6 when the robert committee resumed its sessions today mr roberts went on with his argument begun yesterday lie reviewed the action of the constitutional convention of utah urging that he had carried out the requirements of con gapsa for the ad mission of utah as a state namely that polygamous marriages should no longer be contracted in particular mr roberts contended there was no requirement by congress or in the constitutional convention that previously contracted matrimonial associations should ba done away during his argument mr roberts he had observed that the ladlis involved in this question of plural wives were quite generally received in the circles of gentile ladles in utah he vehemently denounced what he characterized as the sensational crusade made against him and also the effort to arouse public feeling by saying the american home was in darger if necessary he exclaimed 1 I could call attention to ten thousand evils which threaten the country without going to the state of utah IP closing mr roberts said that alio patriotism of the mormon church toward the country could not be questioned when a fund was raised for the survivors of the battleship maine the mormon church had contributed one fifth of alie entire amount bhea abo count rys authority in the philippines was ed gurs handled by utah men had been in alie forefront of the tray mr schroeder the gentile representative stated that no further point would be made on roberts naturalization papers as it was desired to exclude him from congress specifically and solely on the ground of his being a polygamist after the arguments closed members of the committee attached some importance to the question asked by CL airman tayler of roberts re lativa to the latter being amenable while in the district of columbia to the edmunds act it is understood that special attention may be given by thi committee to this feature at 1230 the arguments on both sides were closed and the committee went into executive session at th e executive session it was decided to close the hearings and the unless ex secretary carlisle decided to bo heard further the committee then adjourned until 10 a m next wednesday there was no vote or other action on the final disposition of the cabe |