Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — THE APPORTIONMENT ACT. [ARTICLE]

THE APPORTIONMENT ACT.

Republican* Will Test ItsC constitution alitjr. The Executive Committeeof the Republican State Committee have decided to bring suit at once to test the constitutionality of the legislative apportionment act passed by the late legislature. Chairman Gowdy said, Saturday: “There are a few membersof the party that are of the opinion thatit would be wiser not to bring suit; that in view of the fact that the Supreme Court is Democratic it Would not be expected that the law would be set aside, but I do not take that view of it and I am satisfied that the Committee does not. I believe the Supreme judges are honest, conscientious men, and that they will not allow their political convictions to guide them in the least in passing upon the question to be raised. It is undoubtedly the wish of the pedple of the State that the act be tested and it will be done. There are many Democrats I find who are anxious to seethe unfair law set aside.”