The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-26
IM0RN0'N'lS!INI RHBlKGD.
B. 4. Roberts Excluded From the
National House.
MAJORITY RESOLUTION CARRIED

Members Refused to Allow Him To
Take tho Oath Before ExpuIsiop.
Declares He VIII Not Again be a
Candidate For Congr~as.
Washington. Jan. 26.--The case Of
Brigham II. Roberts. the Mormon rep
resentatiye-elect from Utah. which has
occupied so much of the attention Of
the house since the assembling of con-
gress. was decided yesterday by the
adoption of resolution to exclude him
by vote Of s6s to so. The exact Ian
gnage Of the resolution was as follows:
That under the facts and circum-
stances OF the case Brigham H. Rob-
erts. representatiys-elect from the
state Of Utah, ought not to have OF
hold seat In the house Of Representa-
tiyes and that the seat to which he was
elected is hereby declared vacant"
The amendment to expel Mr.. Roberts
without seating him, offered by Mr..
Lacey, was ruled out on point of
order, and the house only voted upon
the resolution OF the majority and mi
nority Of the committee. The latter
resolution to seat and then expel Mr..
Roberts was defeated by 81 to 244. An
analysis OF this vote shows that ITO
Republicans, ~ Democrats and Pop
ulists voted against 1t and II Demo-
Gratis, 6 Republicans, 2 Populists and 2
Silver-Repnbljcan for It.
The majority resolutions-to exclude
Roberts and declare the seat vacant
we're adopted by 27S to so. The af-
irmative vote was divided as follows:
Republicans, 1874: Democrats, 30; Pop
ulists, 4. and the negative vote was
Democrats, Al; silver-Republlcans. 2;
Populist, ].
There were over score Of speakers
yesterday, and the closing speeches on
each side were particularly able. Mr..
lanham (Tex.) closed for the major
ity and Mr.. De Almond (Mo) for the
minority.
Mr.. Roberts was present throughout
the day, and only left the hall after
the result Of the last vote had been an
no,tnced. AS he did so he gave out
statement justifying his retention of
his plural wives on the ground that his
moral obligation was more binding
upon his conscience than technical
obedience to statutory law. and saying
that there WAS little excuse for the ex-
traordinary effort to crush system
already abandoned and practically
dead. He said he was a martyr to a
spasm Of prejudice" He would not,
he said, attempt to run for congress
again, although he would go back
home with light heart, confident of
the future,
Just at the close of yesterdays ses-
sion of the senate speech delivered
by Mr.. Money tMiss.) on the race ques-
tion In the south preeipitated a heated
colloquy between him and Mr.. Chand-
Ter IN. H., in which the latter al
legged that the southern senators, by
Incorporate statements, were reopen
ing the whole southern question in the
senate after it was supposed to be dead.
The charge which Mr.. Chandler par
tcularly criticized was made by Mr..
Morgan tAla.). who Is absent at pres
Gnt, but as It had been reiterated sub
stantially, in Mr.. Chambers opinion,
by other senators, he declared he did
not propose to permit it to 60 unre-
futed. The charge was that the civil
war had been precipiated by designing
politicians of the north for the pur-
pose Of putting the slaves on pO-
litica and social equality with the
southern whites. The urgent defic-
iency bill, carrying about s9,00O,000.
was passed without division and prac-
tically without debate.