Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UHIISUA], Happenings in the Nearby Cities anc Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from {Many J‘laces. TO TEST CONSTITUTIONAL ACT Case Will 'Be Called Before Judge Thorntpn, Indianapolis, Friday. June 15 has been agreed on as the date for hearing argument in superior court on the siift filed recently by Henry W. Bennett to test the constitutionality of the law providing for the calling of a constitutional convention and the election of delegates thereto. Attorneys representing both sides agreed on 'the date and it is understood that an agreed statement of facts will be presented to the court, the legal questions involved argued before Judge W. W. Thornton and a decision obtained as quickly as possible. The election of delegates to the convention is scheduled for September and attorneys on both sides hope to have the question decided in the supreme court long before that date.