Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — CONVENTION LAW ATTACKED IN SUIT [ARTICLE]

CONVENTION LAW ATTACKED IN SUIT

Suit is Filed in the Marion County Superior Court In Behalf of H. W. Bennett. An attack on the Law calling a con-i stitutional convention in Indiana was made in a suit filed Thursday afternoon in the Marion county superior court by Hery W. Bennett, in which it is alleged that the law is unconstitutional and invalid. The complaint asks the court to declare the constitutional convention law null and void for several reasons. It also asks the court to knock out that part of the woman suffrage law that gives women the right to vote for the election of delegates to the proposed constitutional convention. It is alleged in the complaint that the general assembly had no power or authority to call a constitutional convention, because the people of Indiana, in 1918, voted down a proposition to call such a convention. It says that no poll has since been taken to show that the people are in favor of calling such a convention. Another reason set out in the complaint w(hiy the law should be declared unconstitutional is that it gives women the right to vote for delegates when they have no righ to vote under the present constitution. The complaint names all the county clerks in the state, Secretary of State Ed Jackson and others. It is understood that an effort wjl be made to push the suit as rapidly as possible, in order that a final decision may be reached before the date for the election of delegates in September.