The evening times., 1899-03-24
MEFH0DISfS AGAINST
CONGRESSMAN ROBERTS
Resolutions of the Whining
ton Annual Conference.
Rev. DIR. Tiff. of Utah, Urges His
Expulsion.
Declares There Is n Rising Tide Oi
Indignation Against the Nor
mon Member-Elect.

Cambridge, Md, March PA wave of
enthusiastic applause swept over Zion
Church during the session of the Whining
ton Annual Conference, at the conclusion of
an address by Rev. ID. T. C. Iliff. Super
intendent of the Utah Mission, urging the
expulsion of Brigham HI. Roberts from the
seat in Congress to which he has been
elected from Utah.
There is rising tide of Indignation
throughout this country declared Rev.
DIR. Tiff, looking to the expulsion of Brig
ham H. Roberts from Congress. On cleo
tion day this man was approved in his
unlawful and immoral mode of life by a
majority of 5000 votes. There is one thing
left for us, and that is to rise in the maj
esty of our rights as citizens of this great
country and demand that Mr.. Roberts be
expelled from Congress at the very first
opportunity"
At the conclusion of Rev. DR.. lifts re-
marks the conference adopted, by rising
vote. the following resolutions:
Resolved, That upon such a grave is
sue as is herein involved every true Ameri-
can citizen will expect the House of Rep
resentatives to stand uncompromisingly
home by seeing to it that Brigham H. Rob-
erts is promptly expelled from the Fifty
sixth Congress.
Resolved, That We earnestly call upon
the representatives of our Congressional
districts TO use their utmost endeavors to
secure action by the Fifty-sxth Congress.
proposing an amendment to the National
Constitution and submitting the same to
the State legislatures making polygamy,
the United States. punishable by severe
penalties. including disqualification to vote
or TO hold any Office of honor or emolu-
ment under the United States or any State
or Territory therein
The committee on ministerial relations,
10 which was referred the case of Rev. W.
NJ. Green, who was charged by Presiding
Elder Baker, of the Dover district with
having absented himself from the Hoop
ers Island charge, to which he had been
transferred from Woodside, recommended
that the minister be transferred from the
effective to the supernumerary relation. 1t
was explained by the chairman OF the COM
mittee that this course had been taken at
the request of Rev. Mr.. Green.
Bishop Foss asked the committee il ii
had considered fully Rev. Mr.. Greens q
character. The bishop stated that the
ministerial character OF Rev. Mr.. Green
had been affected by the charge made by
The presiding elder. The case was then re-
submitted 10 the committee.
Quite an affecting scene occurred in the
conference when Rev. James Carroll, who
has been a member of the conference since
1865. advanced TO the altar rail and in a
! faltering voice asked that he be trans
| ferred from the effective to the superan-
nuate relation. His request was granted
and a resolution adopted providing for the
aupoint ulent of a committee to draw I'm q
suitable minute expressive OF the confer
! ences appreciation of the labors of Rev.
Mr. Carroll within its bounds.
4 Rev. f. o. B. Wallin, who entered the
conference in 1871, also asked for the su-
perannuate relation.