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And Closes with an Eloquent Protest,
in the Name Of womanhood, Against
the Admission Of Roberts.
MR.. CRUMPACKER's ARGUMENT
HIS REASONS FOR OPPOSING ADOP.
TION OF MAJORITY REPORT.
Speech by Mr.. Miers, Another Indi-
tatives-Crowds in the Galleries.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.-"Purity OF the
home" was the keynote OF the speech OF
Representative Lands this afternoon in the
Roberts case. He had been allotted an
hour, but at the end OF that period unani-
nous consent was given him to conclude
his remarks. regardless OF a time limit
This alone shows the effect he was produc-
ing on his audience. Clear of voice. rapid
of utterance. animated in manner, free IN
gesture, he aroused his audience, made list
less by the prosiness of those who pre-
ceded him, first to respectful interest and
then to rapt attention. When he began
there were more members in the cloak
rooms than on the floor OF the House Long
before he concluded the cloakrooms we're.
abandoned and the floor was crowded. Mr..
Lands announced at the outset that he
spoke as layman, not as a lawyer He
cut straight through the mesh OF legal tech
nicalities in which the lawyers fioundered
and differed, and sought out the essential
facts in the case that convinced him that
Roberts should be kept out altogether-not
admitted and then expelled.
1t was noticeable that Mr.. Lands i'm
proved in voice and manner and matter as
he went along. The wit and humor with
which he interspersed his remarks were
highly relished by the House, which ex-
hibited its delight by hearty outbursts OF
laughter. He dwelt at length on the agree
ment of the authorities of the Mormon
Church that polygamy should be abandoned
as practice and discarded as belief as
conditions precedent to the admission OF
vfol ctal ohf he
of this agreement by reading from the re-
marks of Mr. Rawlins. then the delegate
from the Territory of Utah and now a SEN
ator from the State of Utah. made when
the bill TO admit Utah into the Union was
under consideration by the House. He then
referred to what Senator Rawlins had vol
unfairly stated before the special commits
tee investigating Roberts. and read a state
ment of the plural marriages of the apos-
ties of the Mormon Church and the num-
Der of children that had been born to them
since the issuance OF the manifesto an
nouncing the abandonment of polygamy
and since the admission of Utah as State
He instanced one case where children had
been born to one apostle by two OF his
plural wives within three days OF each
other, and dryly commented that they
lacked but three days Of being born twins.
Again, he instanced a case where the first.
or legal, wife OF an apostle had died and
the second wife had gone TO live with him
as his legal wife. This. Lands said. was
an application OF the civil-service doctrine
to matrimony. These sallies elected up
roarious laughter, both on the floor and I'm
the galleries.
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sionaries whom Roberts had attacked was
eloquent and forcible, and was vigorously
applauded. His reference to Helen Gould.
prefaced by the statement that Roberts
was the only man in the United States who
had ever attacked her, were couched in
terms of manifest eloquence and caused
spontaneous and repeated applause. He re-
lated an affecting incident that had oc-
Cured during his visit TO Santiago I'm 1885,
He saw there a dingy, weather-beaten
steam launch. which DIR. Ducker, the ply
sican in charge Of the hospital across the
bay from the fallen city. was arranging TO
bring to this country. In reply TO a remark
of his DR.. Dueker told the history OF the
launch. He told how the necessity OF such
a launch had become pressing for the hos
pitaI's needs, how he applied for one TO the
commanding general, who was unable 10
furnish 1t, how he appealed TO the War
Department at Washington. which could
not supply it. and how he had then laid the
matter before Helen Gould. who cabled
him the same day, saying her own private
steam launch was on it's way TO him for
him TO use as long as he needed H. DIR.
Ducker concluded his recital with the fer
vent words, "God bless Helen Gould"
'I too" exclaimed Mr.. Lands in reverent
tones, .'say God bless Helen Gould" This
story and the sentiment uttered by the
speaker were received by prolonged ap-
plause. Mr.. Landis's peroration protest.
ing against the admission OF Roberts TO
take the oath OF ofFiee. in the name OF the
American home, in the name OF American
womanhood. i'm the name OF the women
crushed by the awful system OF polygamy
and of their innocent children. in the name
OF honest Aformons. created an outburst OF
applause on the floor and in the galleries