Item Detail
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8635
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Journal Article
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English
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Bitton, Davis
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The B. H. Roberts Case of 1898-1900
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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January 1957
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25
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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1957
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27-46
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This essay covers the election of B.H. Roberts to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1898, and the subsequent hearings in the House that resulted in his not being seated. In particular, Bitton discusses the legal implications, including the compact between the United States and the people of Utah at the time of statehood, and whether or not that compact was violated in the election of Roberts, who had been a polygamist before the 'manifesto,' had contracted no new marriages, but was still cohabiting with plural wives. He observes that no inelligibility had been charged when Roberts ran in 1895, and that, at the time, there seemed to be reason to be encouraged that he could be seated.
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