Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From All Over Indiana. NAME CHARITIES DELEGATES Prominent Men and Women to Represent the State at the Charities Conference at Pittsburgh \ in June. Indianapolis, May 25.—Governor Goodrich lias named (delegates to the National .Cohference of Charities and Corrections; whi ch meet s~ ini ittsbui h June G-13. Among those mimed are: South Bend—Mrs. Las ite Levan. -Louis Pfeiffer, Carrie lb In. Leia M. Scott and Rev. J. C. McGinn (Notre Eiame). Elkhart—J. P. Michael. . Michigan City—Mrs. Worth I’epple. Laporte —Frank Pitner.

Delay Sentencing Election Violators. Evansville, May ,25.—Qne hundred and twenty-live Evansville and !• rankfort politicians felt relief with the announcement at Indianapolis that Judge A. B. Anderson of the federal ‘court would not impose, sentences on their pleas of guilty to election frauds until the Supreme court of .the United States has passed upon the law involved in federal election fraud prosecutions at Cincinnati, O. After Judge Hollister, at Cincinnati, held the indictment in the election fraud cases there insufficient, the government took the case to the highest tribunal on a writ of error. An early decision is anticipated. Frank C. Dailey, special assistant to the attorney general, in charge of the prosecutions, is confident the higher court will uphold federal prosecutions for voterbuying. The Gary and Indianapolis cases are not affected by the ruling in the Cincinnati cases, it is said, as they involve conspiracy to prevent men from voting, which the Supreme court repeatedly has held punishable by federal law, according to Mr. Dailey.