Show NEGRO OFFICIAL IS STORM CENTER ATTORNEYS WOULD ENJOIN NEGRO NEGRO NEGRO NE NE- COMPTROLLER OF GRO AS NEW ORLEANS Suit Will Be Filed Flied to Test Four Amendment Enfranchising ing Ina Race Negroes of Nation Nation Nation Na Na- tion arc are Effected New Orleans A suit attacking amendment amendment amend amend- the validity of the fourteenth will be filed angle ment from a new in federal district court here in in the form of a petition seeking to enjoin Walter Valter L. L Cohen negro comptroller of customs of the port of New Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans leang from exercising the duties of that office according to the Times- Times Picayune The action if would have the effect of disenfranchising disenfranchising disenfranchising every negro in the United States The petition as published by the newspaper charges that Cohen falsely false ly alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States when he took the oath of office It asserts that the defendant defendant de do- is not a citizen of this country country country coun coun- try but is a person person of African blood and descent and is inherently incapable incapable incapable able of being a citizen of the United States suit is to be brought in the The L L name of H. H Edwin an attorney of Washington D. D C. C according to tJ that the newspaper which declares the grounds upon which it is based never have been the subject of decision decision decision deci deci- sion by the courts The petition sets forth that three three- fourths of the states did not ratify the amendment nor was it adopted by the required two-thirds two vote of both houses of legislatures Mr 1 Bolt was quoted as saying that al although although al- al though he and his associates had examined ex ex- all of the more than two hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred decisions of the supreme court of the United States which had to todo todo todo do with the amendment in not one of them were the points raised in such uch action passed upon nor were they nade an issue The petition charges conspiracy to the authors of the amendment in congress congress congress con con- gress and various sections are cited in an effort to show that they put the amendment into effect unlawfully As to Cohen the petition charges that when he took the oath of office in Washington April 16 1924 1024 he swore falsely to his alleged citizenship citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- ship claiming to be a citizen under the provisions provisions- of the alleged fourteenth fourteenth four four- fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States The petition alleges that article 14 never was legally proposed by two- two thirds of both houses of congress that it never was ratified by three- three fourths of the states that eleven states of the union at the time of the adoption of the resolution culminating culminating culminating cul in the alleged article 14 were unconstitutionally deprived of their equal suffrage ge in the senate that six states were by coercion forced to ratify it and that congress did without power or authority Unlawfully unlawfully un un- lawfully declare said amendment to the constitution adopted and a part of the constitution |