The age-herald., 1900-01-22
THE HOUSE WILL
 DISCUSS ROBERTS Minority ha1ers Think They Will
 Carry Their Point. MAJORITY ALSO CONFIDENT The Mormon Mill Plead His Own
 Cause. DISCUSSION OF SEVERAL DAYS The Senate Will Devote Itself to a Va riety of Speechmaking- Philip
 pines and Financial Bill 2. the Topics

- Washington, January N.-The feature of the proceedings in the house this week will be the consideration of the case of Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon representative elect from Utah. The case has attracted intense interest all over the country.
 Though both the majority and minority of the committee which investigated the case agree that MT. Roberts should not sit as a member of the house on account of his alleged polygamous practices there will be a royal struggle over the question of procedure, upon which the committee has split
 The case will be called up on Tuesday, and two, possibly three, days will be de- voted to it.
 The majority of the committee hold that MT. Roberts should be excluded, while the minority contend that he be seated and then expelled passing their argument for this course upon the ground that MT. Rob- erts possess all the constitutional qualities for membership, and that any attempt to exclude him the theory that congress has the power to add to those qualifications would establish a dangerous precedent that might return to plague congress in the future.
 2 MT. Littlefield of Maine and MT. DeAr- mond of Missouri, who presented the mi nority report will make a strong fight, and say they believe they can convince a ma 1orftse of the house that the course they advocate is the only proper one to pursue. The majority of the committee, on the other hand, are confident that they will be backed by majority of the house. MT. Roberts is expected to make a plea in his own defense.
 Should he be seated in accordance with the contention of the minority, a resolu- tion to expel him will be immediately of fered and this doubtless will carry by an almost unanimous vote, though the ma- jority. In their report, have insisted that once seated a member cannot be expelled for acts committed before he was a mem Der of the house.
 Tomorrow will be devoted to District of Columbia matters. and Friday to elougies upon the life and public services of the late Vice President Hobart.
 THE SENATE
 Washington, January 21.-The senate again this week will devote itself almost 
 of subjects will be covered. The financial bill will remain the unfinished business, but the senate will not be held strictly to its consideration. Several set speeches probably will be made upon it, among those who are expected to speak being Senators CoclSrell, Daniel and Allen,
 No announcement has yet been made of speeches on the affirmative side of the measure, but now that a day has been agreed upon for vote, it may be expected that some of the friends of the bill will speak .n its defense.
 The four speeches of the week will be made immediately after the routine busi- ness Monday morning by Senator Pritch- ard on his resolution declaring the pro- posed amendment to the constitution of North Carolina to be in contraventdon of the federal constitution. He will be fol- lowed by Senator Turner in a prepared speech on the Philippine question. Tuesday MT. Ross will address the senate on the ap- plicatfon of the constitution of the United States to Puerto Rico and the Philippine archipelago He will be followed on the same day by MT. McEnery with speech on the North Carolina constitutional ques- tion.
 The two reports os the Quay contest will be presented Monday Tuesday, and as likely. to receive early attension. Senator Penrose, who is in charge of MT. Quay's says he will ask that the contest be pressed