Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — A QUEER STATUTE. [ARTICLE]

A QUEER STATUTE.

But the Supreme Court Say* It Must Stand. Wednesday the Supreme Court decided that the McCabe election bribery law, passed by the last Legislature, is constitutional. This law provides that any bribed voter is privileged to obtain judgment against the man who Is guilty of the bribery in the sum of *3OO. The case involved was that of Charles Beedle against Peter Schoonover, appealed from Warren county. In the November election of 1890 Schoonover was a candidate for clerk of the court and is alleged to have purchased Beedie’s vote for *lO. The latter obtained judgment in the lower court for the *3OO allowed by the McCabe law. and the Supreme Court affirms the decision. When the pedagogue whales the urchins it is but natural that they should blubber.