The Macon sentinel., 1900-01-27
CONSPIRACY"
SAYS Lands
Worked In the Admission of Utah
To Statehood.
SEVERE ROAST FOR ROBERTS.
-o.roniSm Denounced In Sever
est Terms on the Floor
of the House.

Washington special says: The
honse resumed the debate on the Rob
.rts case at II o'clock Wednesday.
The galleries were again we'll filled,
most of the occupants, as on Tuesday,
hang ladies'. Some minor business
nraceded the resumption of the debate.
Mr., Lands, of Indiana, then deliv-
ered sensational speech. He
conteDded that Mr.. Roberts was
rot entitled to admission be-
corse he had violated Utah's COM
nact with the United States. Mr..
lands resented as unworthy of belief
he charge made, he said, by Senator
PQwlins that the president had ap-
pointed notorious polygamists. The
senator might as well accuse the
house of endorsing polygamy since 1t
had passed bill appropriating $4O,-
400 fer the agricultural college at Lo-
can. Utah. "The president of that
College" said he, 'is a polygamist,
living in open and notorious polygamy
with three wives. One of his leading
professors is a polygamist, living with
two wives. The trustee is a polyga-
MIST living i'll open and notorious
polygamy with seven wives Qaughter)
and they have been blessed with thirty
nine children. Laughter.
He further asserted that three of
the members Of the first presidency
and ten of the twelve apostles who.
signed the petition for amnesty were
poIygamists.
'"Ot these fifteen leaders who
soIemnIy pledged their nonor and
faith to the future obedience to the
law of the church of Christ and Latter
. Day Salts, three have probably kept
. herpledges, namely, Wllford WOOD
. ruff, Frankli D. Rodgers and An
. tlOny H. Lunn.
After detailing the polygamous rela-
tons of other Mormon leaders, he
4 continued:
pages might be written of the vio-
ation of the compact by which Utah
was given a star. Mr.. Speaker, that
star is fallen star; it does not shine
, with the brilliancy and luster of her
sister stars. 1t shines by cunning
and by deceit, by treachery, by fraud.
. II speaks of crime and of violation OF
The most solmn covenant ever made
between territory and the Union. "
Applause.)
I'VE have as a representative from
Utah man with three wives, the last
one taken, the report says, as near as
We can ascertain, before 1890, L be-
lleye. And he did not deny that that
woman became his plural wife after
Utah was taken into the American
Union. And [ here charge that Utah
came in as the result of deliberate
conspiracy to free that people from
the federal authority, and thus enable
them to live their religion unhindered.
I'm 1896 Mr.. Roberts was candl-
date for congress, and the church dis
clpIlned and defeated him because the
tine was not then ripe for a polyga-
mist to come to the American congress.
lie became a car didate in 1898, and
'he man who placed him before the
convention stated that he ran by per-
mission Of the church. In 1898 we
were engaged in war with foreign
iOe American manhood was away
nom home and all absorbed in coun
try,
"Palor was at war and virtue was a
prayer The north and the south un
uef one flag They hoped in this gen
TFSi condition of magnanimity to COM
Uack, and it was then this periuret
Vneat attempted to crawl in. Sir, i
came by itself, but it will be hurled
gAck boldly and in the open day b,
:ue outraged Indignation of the Amer
rAn M people. (Applause.) And acros
!On threshold will be written in let
~ts large enough to be read from tn
uaU0nal capitol to the Mormon tenn
pc NO polygamist shall ever sit as
IenoeF T Der of the American congress.
ApOlause.l