Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1929, Page 16

16 THE- EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1929. T S DENED RGHTS Citizen Fighting for Equal' Legislative Representation With “Downstate.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 24.—For 25 years Johrt B. Fergus and his plan to reap- | portion the State to give Chicago equal | representation with “down State” have | been. “bad news” to the Illinois legis- lators. Fergus, 86, head of a printing estab- lishment, through the years has triea every legal method to obtain a change in the balance of political power. He contends the legislators deliberately vio- late the State constitution in neglecting to redistrict the State, which last was reapportioned in 1901. His latest effort is a_mandamus ac- tion in the United States Supreme | Court, Once a Winner in Court. | Only once has Fergus won a coutc | action. A quo warranto petition was granted in the Cook County Cireuft Court, demanding that every member of the Legislature show why he should retain his seat That petition was granted after the Supreme Court refused to consider Fergus' demand that the State treas- urer withhold legislators’ pay checks on the grounds they were holding their seats illegally. The Chicagoan claims only one member of the Legislature is entited to his seat. Later a higher court reversed the quo warranto action. i n provides re- | ! deral census. | Fergus s ounty should | have five additional nators and fit- teen more Representatives. Population Figures Compared. Fergus cited to the Supreme Court that Cook County had 3,755,630 of the State's 7,202.203 residents, while the districts outside Cook County elected six Supreme Court' justices and Cook County one. ‘The continued attacks of Fergus gave being to the Constitutional Apportion- ment League in 1925. So bitter became the fight with the General Assembly that there was animated talk of Cook . County seceding from Illinois and cre- ating a separate State. The fight for reapportionment - has cost more than $60.000, most of which _has been paid by Fergus. 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Howard. ‘The friction resuited from an attempt of Chief of Police Charles Kelley of Pasadena to bring Howard and Mrs. Pearl, Cooley, the widow, together. Howard, in a lengthy statement, dis- closed yesterday, admitted an intimate friendship with Mrs. Cooley. The statement by Howard, which followed his confession Friday ot the slaying, amplified a point of the crime which authorities have investi- gated repeatedly—his friendship with Mrs. Cooley. Howard described numerous “liquor parties” with Mrs. Cooley since they *began going together” last No- vember, culminating in his proposal of ; marriage, which she rejected, he said. Since that time in January, 1929, Howard said, their relationship virtually had come to an end. Howard has maintained that Cooley grabbed him following an argument over liquor and that he struck in self- defense. DEPUTY HOUSE BURNED. Fire Destroys Municipal Building in Sofia, Bulgaria. 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