Show I THE HOOSIERS 0 StiH W gHng Xveji > 4tlie Lienienait Gdvffrndrshif BIG TARIFF REFORM MEETING The Farmers Congress The Fated J I Train Our Sister Territory His i Farewell Message Etc THE HOOSIER HOItABAI 1 f Ti 1 O r lAT lA-T e L i rfuelB ia em BeI Jvept Up INDIANAPOLIS January 12After rejecting re-jecting Senator Drakes resolution today to-day Senator Campbell presented to < the Senate LieuteflantGovfirnbr Robert I sons formal claini in writing to he office of Presidency of the Senate as I LieutenantGovernor and it was reau information It is ajjpllows To the Indiana Senate j Gentlemen have The flonor fcfin form you that having taken the oath of office which is here attached I am in possession of the office of Lieutenant Governor of the State of Ind anapplis lam abe to attend yOur session and ready to enter on the Constitutional l functions prescribed m Section 2 of Article Ar-ticle 5 of the State Constitution to wit To be President of the Senate with hll the rights and duties in said section provided That you have in myjudg nient wrongfully excluded and prevented pre-vented me from exercising that function func-tion of 1 THE DUTIES 9F MY OFFICE Against this your action I do hereby most earnestiy protest and remonstrate and respectfully demand my rights Signed R C ROBEBT = ON LieutenantGovernor The copy of the oath nf office which had been administered by Judge Walker was attached The motionto reject prevailin by a party vote Senator Winter announced that the Re publwiin minority would Consider Colonel Robeftson LieutenahtGov ernor and x JJ J M e t S ti SENATOR MITir ASAK USUR ERin ER-in niaintaining i the t djnce nd y the latter lat-ter invited Senator Winter to test the matter in the courts At a late hour this afternoon President pro tern Smith filed quo warranter prCeeedings against the Lieutenant GXvernorelect The papers were filed in the Marion Circuit Court and the hearing will begin be-gin before Judge Ayres at 9 oclock tomorrow morning Judge Ayres before whom Smithscojn plaiffl WItS filed is the Judge who held that his court had no jurisdiction juris-diction when Smith sought to restrain the Secretary of State from transmitting transmit-ting the result of the vote on lieutenant governor to the Speaker of the House which ruling was sustained by the Supreme Court A speedy decision of the present case is expected |