People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — WON BY THE DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

WON BY THE DEMOCRATS.

Judge Bookwaiter Sustains the Illinois Apportionment Act of 1893. Danville, 111., May 22. —Judge Ferdinand Bookwaiter lias rendered his decision in the apportionment suit in favor of the democrats. In a brief opinion he declared that his court cannot question the senatorial apportionment law of 1893, and therefore denies the petition of plaintiff. James P. Fletcher, republican candidate for the legislature, who sought to enjoin Walter C. Tuttle, clerk of Vermilion county, from calling- an election under the disputed statute. For want of equity the court dismissed the suit and declared that the costs must be paid by the republican petitioner.