Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1902 — TESTING THE LAW. [ARTICLE]

TESTING THE LAW.

Mortgage Deduction Case is Being Pressed by Attorney-General. If a motion that has been forwarded to the United States supreme court by Attorney General W. L. Taylor is passed upon favorably by that tribunal the famous mortgage deduction law case will probably be finally settled before the first of the year. Attorney General Taylor retires from office in January and he is exceedingly anxious to have the case disposed of during his term, and to that end he has forwarded a motion to the supreme court that the casS be advanced to an immediate hearing, so that it can be argued within a few weeks. R. O. Hawkins and Horace E. Smith, the attorneys on the other side, joined with the attorney general in the motion, and it is thought that the supreme court will grant it. More than 80,000 taxpayers are directly interested in this case, and it is one of the most important that has ever been tried in the state of Indiana. Taxable property to the amount of over $40,000,000 is involved and taxes amounting to almost $1,000,000 annually. The suit is one to test the constitutionality of the mortgage deduction law which was passed by the Indiana assembly of 1899. A Marion county representative is preparing to introduce an act in the next legislature to repeal the law prohibiting Sunday base bail.