Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-24
AROUSED BY ROBERTS.
Women Cheered and Kissed
His Utterauces.
LTTTLEFIELD HERO OF DEBATE
His Speech showed Him to BE the Most
Ready Debat"r since Thomas Bracket
Reed Had a seat on t.e PIoor-solne
Details of Debate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The debate on
the Roberts exclusion resolution excited
great attention in the house. Tayler
talked first His speech was an excel
lent elaboration Of what he SAID when
Roberts was stood aside.
Then came Littlefeld, the Name
+ Yankee, who represents the Dingley
district, and finally Roberts. by unaui-
nous consent, was recognized.
Some women eheered and others
missed his utterances.
The three spoke well, but saere Is
only one of the three who Ynay be said
to have made more than an ordinary
impression, and that one is Charles L.
/ Littlefield, tall, brawny and as straight
and slender as a pine tree. For more
than two hours he entertained the house
with marvellous flow of language, dur.
ing the delivery Of which he showed
/ himself the readiest debater the house
has known since Thomas Bracket Reed
occupied a seat on the floor.
Mr.. Taylor, in his speech, said in part
"Chief Justice Waite In the Reynolds
! case in 1873, speaking Of the claim that
/ polygamy was religious practice
said:
To -germit this would be in effeettop per-
/ mil cy-rY citizen to become Il law unto
+ himself Government could exist only In
name under such circumstances and jus.
tice Matthews. in the Ramsey case in 1897
/ declares in substance that all political In
| fuence ought 10 be Withdrawn from those
who are practically hostile to the estab-
lishment Of a free, self-eovefning Com
| monwcalth founded on the idea of Il
inc In, al
| the union for life of one man and one
| woman IN the holy estate of matrimony.
| IF we are to attach any Importance
| to those fundamental declarations of the
/ highest court, we must declare-no matter
| what moral question may be involved
| that this case presents in bold relief a
question Of governmental life. the basis
of which is law.
| "This is q representative government;
| 1t springs from the people, from the peo-
/ pie who make the law, and their renfeSen-
/ tatives are such because they are believ-
ers in the law and subject To the law
i Now and then we have a law which
springs from the united voice eff a united
people as the expression of civilized force
| in which practically all Of them believe
| and which Is necessary to the existence Of
that cVili2ing force. OF the more than
rs Coo 600 American citizens all but the
t meFest handful believe. and believe with
n mighty fervor, in the kind of common
wealth which Justice Matthews declares
is founded Qu the marriage relation exist
ing for LIE between one man and one
/ women That idea has been for many
years crystallized in solemn and delber-
ate law, whose principle and form have
been approved by the highest judicial
authority
such laws aade imperitive demand for
universal respect and obedience, and the
duty of such respect and obedience presses
most urgently upon a represen-
/ tattVe on the people in a law
making body These propositions
are fundamental and self-evtdeut
! They lie at the root of things They are
| bed rock upon which written constitutions
| res; they nreepde constitutions; cousttu-
lions assume their PERSISTENCE and their
pre-natural existence; they are consutu-
tioual
IT the Federal constitution had explicitly
| declared that all persons should be elig-
able for representative in Congress who
/ denied that denied that the constitution
law of the land that instrument and the
| government it sought to create would not
have endured single day. 1t follows
/ that If such specific declaration could not
| have been made it cannot be implied.
/ Neither the presence nor the absence Of
certain words In the instrument can inn
ply a certain meaning If II is impossible
/ that such meaning could have been ex-
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BILE, he is eligible because the constitu
lIo ~ teS
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the nemher-eleet from Utah is eligible
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and subsfanca in yvorl ana aot in tiff
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TT matters not whether this provisc
+ be attached to the clause referred to On
to sore ether Ii must be written int
the constitution somewhere if the claim.
ant lis eIieibIe. and my friends ON Inc
other side Of the question win not deng
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