The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-22
Methodist Missionaries Take a Shot
at Utah Representative.
SAY HE IS A POLYGAMIST
THEY ASK CONGRESS TO RE-
FUSE TO SEAT HIM.
Also Demand That Legal Marriage
Be Defined as Monogamy and a
Punishment Be Provided for Po-
lyamous Cohabitation - Money
For Missionary Work In Utah.

Washington. Nov 21.-The general
missionary commission of the Metho-
dist church today placed itself on rec
ord against the seating of Representa-
tive-elect Brigham H. Roberts of Utah
in the next congress. The matter came
up when the application for mission
work in Utah was under discussion.
Bishop Warren arose and presented the
following resolution:
THE general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
composed of =, bishops, officers of the
missionary society and representatives
from all parts of the country, hereby
expresses its unqualified disapproval of
the election. by the state of Utah of
Brigham II. Roberts. an avowed polyg-
amist, to the house of representatives
of the United States.
Whereas, BY the election of said
Brigham H. Roberts, Utah publicly re-
pudiates her sacred agreement which
she made in order to secure statehood,
and
Whereas. In view of the past history
of the contest over the practice of
polygamy. the house of representatives
cannot permit the said Brigham Fl.
Roberts to have a voice in its councils
without in effect sanctioning the prac-
tice of polygamy; therefore,
Want Him Expelled.
I'VE most respectfully and most ear
nestly call upon every representative
of the fifty-siXth congress to use his
utmost endeavor and to exhaust all
honorable means to secure the prompt
expulsion of the said Brigham H. Rob
erts Of Utah from the house of repre-
sentatives, in accordance with the pro-
vision of the national constitution in
article l. section .. paragraph %, which
reads as follows:
Each house (of congress) may de-
termine the rules of its proceedings,
punish it's members for disorderly be-
havior and, with the concurrence of
two-thirds. expel a member.
I'VE also most earnestly call upon
every member of the senate and of the
house of representatives to use his ut
most endeavor- and to exhaust ali hon
orable means to secure action by the
fifty-siXth congress proposing an
amendment to the national -conStitu-
tion submitting the same TO the legis-
latures of the several states. defining
legal marriage to be fnonogafny and
making polygamy and polygamOus CO.
habitation, under Whatsoever guise or
pretext. a crime against the United
States. punishable by severe penalties,
including disfranchisement and dis
qualification TO vote or to hold any
office of honor or emolument under the
United States or any state or territory
thereof
Money For Utah Mission.
These resolutions were adopted by a
rising vote and a committee of three
was appointed. consisting of Bishop
Hurst. DR.. Goucher and Bishop War
rem, TO present the foregoing resolution
to the president and TO place a copy of
it in the hands of every member of
both houses of the fifty-sixth congress.
The committee then appropriated
$4,000 for the mission work in Utah
during the coming year and $4,000 for
the school work in the state. After
ward an additional 5000 was given to
the school work.
The other approximations for home
mission work were as follows:
Missions among the American Indi-
ans, S7.467.
Conferences north of the Potomac
and Ohio and east of the Mississippi,
S25.161.
For the conference of Kansas Ohio
and the states north, including the
Black Hills. ISL, 437.
For Montana. Wyoming. Arizona,
New Mexico. Idaho and Nevada, $751;
60
For the Pacific coast. $50, 476.