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Show RELIG1DUSWQRDS NOT OMITTED, GREMS Speaker Charges Deliberate Frameup to Defeat Illinois I Constitution j .URRANA. III.. Oct. 14 (By A. P.) Chanting that- dellbernta attempt la Iielna; made to prejudice the people aitainst the proposed new con-1 con-1 atitutlon befora they havw had an opportunity op-portunity to study It, Henry I. Oreen of L'rbana. chairman of tha commit- 1 I" o nlifwlsslon i'V rapllftt to a statement given yesterday by Henry Hooker Van Meter, a Bible league organiser. The Van Meter statement charged that lh words, 'In the year of our Jxjrd," had been omitted from i the draft of the constitution. 1 "Evidently the gentlemen who signed i this atatement were misled." Mr. Oreen aald. "If they will go Into the j office of tha secretary of state, where i the official copy of the constitution I as adopted by tha convention Is on file, they will find that the closing words of the text are aa follows: 'Llone '. In convention at the Capitol In the city j of Springfield, on th 12th day of Sep- . temper. In tha year of our Lrd one j thousand nine hundred twenty-two.'" |