People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — SUIT TO BE BROUGHT. [ARTICLE]

SUIT TO BE BROUGHT.

Indiana Republicans Will Likely Test the Apportionment Ltvr. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12.—Nearly all the members of the republican state committee came in Tuesday night for the special meeting of the committee to consider the situation growing out of the decision of the Supreme court in the legislative apportionment case. A canvass of the committeemen shows that unless they change their minds before the meeting to-day they will vote to begin suit to set aside the apportionment act of 1885, and thus force the governor, as they believe, to call a special session of the legislature. Chairman Gowdy said that he did not believe there was any question but that the committee would direct that suit be begun immediately. It probably will be brought before a republican judge in Clinton county. It is proposed to make all the election officers in all the counties parties to the suit, so that if the case should be delayed before the Supreme court the order of the lower court setting aside the act of 1885 shall be binding at election time against the officers in every county.