Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL. [ARTICLE]

LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL.

Judge Palmer of the W T hite circuit court, handed down decision in the Newton county court house case Judge Palmer holds Troat the special act of the legislature in the Newton county seat matter is constitutional in all essentikl particulars; that the county council have nothing to do with the building of a new court house, and that the commissioners have full power to go ahead, let the contract, issue bonds, etc. Of course the matter will not stop here, and it will probably be many moons before a new court house is built in Newton county. The Kentland Enterprise, which np doubt Bpeaks with authority, says of the decision: “The decision of the lower court clears the deck for the final settlement of the law questions in the Supreme court. The highest tribunal in the state will disposA of all the questions, and then and not until then will the people of Newton county know whether this county seat law is good or bad ’’