Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — An Error. [ARTICLE]

An Error.

A story that the railroad corporations in the State combined against Judge Test, on account of an alleged opinion that the railroad law ia unconstitutional, and defeated him for Judge of the Supreme I Court, is going llic rounds ot our exchanges. Every one who was in the State Convention knows,that Judge Test was defeated by a combination of the friends of Osborne and Kerchival, stronger than all the railroads in the State. The old and-wealthy railroad corporations of this State ear* little or nothing about the railroad appropriation law,'and would not care how soon it was dedared anconatitional, and'as Judge Test received the support of a majority oi at least three of the new railn»«tf companies, they did not comhim, and as he is not ia the habit of giving extra-judjeial opinions we are led to believe that the story is a sheer fabrication, calealated, and perhaps intended to injure him. Representatives Packard and Julian are the only republican members of Congress from Indiana who have the unenviable reputation of toting against the expulsion oi Butler, of Tennessee, who wasconvieted of selling cadetships. The Heswo voted to expel him by a vote of Ibt to M. 1