The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-26
HOUSE YOTl TES /: TO
EXCLUDE ROBERTS.
I'll The Majorit Resolu i ion
Was Adopted EAl.ll' Ip:'E
BY:AVERY LARGE; VOTE.
After the Minority Resolution Had
Been Defeated.
RACE QUESTION in SENATE.
III Accordance With Previous Notice
Mr. Money 1;eplicd to the Recent
Speech or DIR. Pritchard on
the Proposed Amendments
to the North Carolina
Constitution,
.BY:A Y:AVERY.LARGEN.OT
RACE QUESTION I'm SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The case ns
Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon repre-
sentative-elect from Utah, which has oc-
cupied so much Of the attention of the
House since the assembling OF Congress,
was decided to-day by the adoption of
resolution to exclude him by vote of
2e5 to So
The exact language Of the resolution
was as follows:
THAT under the facts and ciccum-
stances Of the case Brigham H. Roberts,
representative-elect from the State
Utah, ought not to have or hold a seat: In
the House of Representatives and that
the seat to which he was elected is hereby
declared vacant.
The amendment to expel 0Ir. Roberts
without seating him, offered by Mr.
| Lacey, was ruled out on point OF order,
and the House only voted upon the reso-
! lutions Of the majority and minority oil
the committee. s.
| The latter to seat and then expel Mr..
| Roberts was defeated, 81 to 24i
| An analysis of this vote shows that
| ITO Republicans, seventy-two Democrats
and two Populists voted against 1t and
| seventy-one Democrats, six Republicans,
| two Populists, and two Silver Republi-
cans voted for 1t.
| The majority resolutions, to exclude Mr..
| Roberts and declare the seat vacant,
| were adopted-26S to 80. The affirmative
vote was divided as follows: Republicans
| 16S; Democrats, a6: Populists, 4 and the
negative vote: Democrats, Al; Silver 1Re-
publicans, 2; Populists. l.
| MANY SPEAKERS
! There were score of speakers to-day
| Mr.. Roberts was present throughout the
day, and only left the hall after the re-
suit OF the last vote had been announced.
AS he did so he gave out q atemsnt5
justifying his retention Of his plural
wives, and saying that there was little
excuse for the extraordinary efforts to
crush a system. already abandoned and
practically dead. He would not, he said,
! attempt to run for Congress again. al
though he would go back home with a
light heart, confident of the future.
Mr.. Talhert. of South Carolina, said
| that in a case of such abnormal and de-
fiant immortality, technicalities should
,.ot weigh. Representing the constitu-
| ency he did, he said, he should vote
! against Roberts first, last, and all the
time.
Mr. Adamson, of Georgia. said viola
| ton of the statute against unlawful CO.
habitation entitled the offender to mem
bership in the penitentiary rather than
the House of Representatives.
| Mr.. Grosvenor, Of Ohio, supported the
views of the majority in favor of exclu-
sion
Mr. Morris, of Minnesota, a member
Of the special committee which investi-
gated the Roberts case, and who signed
the majority report. advocated its adop-
| ton in an hours speech.
Mr.. DeArmond, of Missouri. closed the
debate on behalf of the minority report
with forty-minutes' speech.
.'The argument Of the majority that
the method Of turning Mr.. Roberts out
matgered not was the argument Of
Judge Lynch.
UNNECESSARY ABUSE.
Mr. DeArmond scored those who had
unnecessarily abused Mr. Roberts. He
would scorn as beneath him and beneath
contempt an effort to evoke applause sfby
| denunciation. But let it be not understood
by some carping critic that he favored
polygamy.
II oppose it.; scorn IT. said he, but
| I do not feel, 1T necessary in order to
show how good am how I love mother.
hood and chastity, to lend myself to cheap
abuse, which requires neither ability or
| courag ge.''
| This, utterance drew forth a round Of
| applause.
Mr.. Lanham, of Texas. 1closed the de-
bate in behalf of the majority resolution.
| Mr.. Lacey offered an amendment to the
majority resolution providing for the ex-
| pulsion Of Mr.. Roberts. To this Mr. Tay-
! Ter made the point of order that the
4 amendment was not Sermane.
The Speaker sustained the point of or
der on the ground that the original prop
| osltion only required majority vote
while, il the amendment were added, it.
| would require a two-thirds vote.
1 . The Republicans applauded the Speak
er's ruling. I
Mr.. Lacey. appealed from the decision
| of the Chair.
Mr. Tayler moved to lay that motion
I upon the. ia BILE. While the vote on the
/ latter otion was being TAKEN 1t being
apparent that it would carry by large
majority, Mr. Lacey withdrew the ap-
! peal.
The first vote was taken upon the
adoption of the minority resolution to
i seat and then expel Mr.. Roberts. There
was no EFFORT to pair the absent Repub-
| licans and Democrats.
1 The minority resolutfons-to seat and
( $expel Mr.. Roherts-were defeated 81 to2t /.
The majority resolutions to exclude him
/! were then adopted, 27S to 50. The an
nouncenent was greeted with cheers
4 The following Virginians voted for the
minority resolution to seat and then ex-
i pei Mr.. Roberts: Afessrs. Epes, Jones',
Il Hay, Otey, Quarles. Rfxey. Swanson and
i Young. For the majority resolution:
4 l&Messrs.. 81 Epes, Jones, Lamb, Orey
i lsQuarles. Rheaa and Rixey. s.
Int he Senate.
WASHINGTON, jan. 25.-Another dis
cussion Of the race question mainly occu-
i pied the Senate to-day. It was in accord
ance with previous notice. that Mr.. Money
spoke In reply to the recent sneech Of
Mr. Pritchard, Of North Carolina. on the
Il proposed amendment to the North Caro-
llna constitut utlon There was q s?lrtted
i Chand1e sof New Hampshire.
sIr, CockrelI. of the Military Anairs
i iommittee oHered substi1lts for Mr..