Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — APPORTIONMENT LAW IS VALID [ARTICLE]

APPORTIONMENT LAW IS VALID

Proper Exercise of Legislative Power by General Assembly. The Illinois supreme court made short shrift of the Democratic state committee’s suit to set aside the apportionment of the last legislatuie. It had the case under consideration Just two hours, and, without a dissenting vote and without the formality of a written opinion, it dismissed the proceeding. Justice Boggs was authorized to announce the opinion, which he confined to a perfunctory statement that, on the showing of the relator, the court held that the apportionment act was a proper exercise of legislative power by the general assembly. He gave no indication of the line of reasoning followed by the court, nor did he intimate what the written opinion would contain. It is expected that it will follow the decision given on the act of 1893. The suit was in the nature of a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the county clerk of McLean county to certify to the nomination of J. F. Heffernan as a Democratic candidate for the legislature in the old McLean county district The committee had decided that because of the inequalities of the apportionment, there was a serious question as to its legality.