St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-05-22
IN suit Against the Creation oi tha parish 81
EvaRgelIRes..The
CHANGING OF PARISH LINES
Mere Incident 10 the Creation of New Parish.
and Does Not Have the Effect of
Requiring TWO.ThiFd Yois.

Averring that they were citizens
and taxpayers interested in the is-
sues contained in the suit Of Leoncs
Sandoz ct ais, IeYeIled at the Act
creating the parish Of Evangeline and
the election held BY virtue Of said
Act, Messrs. Theodore CoreiI, @. ID.
Guillory, Rene &. Derouen and Ar-
mand Coreil, through their attorney.
Dudley &. Chilean, on Tuesday night
filed 8 petition Of intervention.
II the petition they answer the al
Legations Of the plaintiffs, denying
the application Of the Article Of the
Constitution calling for a two-thirds
vote for the changing Of the parish
lines, TO an election Of the division Of
q parish; declaring The Legislature
competent to deal with the question
Of Representation Id Che Legislature
and declaring plaintiffs action 0n
that point at this time psrmature
denying the Courts the right To in-
quire into the matter of the settle
ment between the old and new parish
or to inquire into the territorial qaea-
tion Of the new parish, tbs Legisla-
ture having already passed Oh that
point; alleging that the Legislature
is competent to assign the new perish
to q Railroad Commission District;
and calling attention to the fact of
the overwhelming victory of the
divisionists at The election held last
month.
The petition is as follows:
list. That Article 278 of The Guns
stitntion of this Stale, adopted May
18th, 1898, and quoted BY plaintiffs
has no application to ain Act Of Che
Legislature creating d new parish,
and particularly does not apply to
Act 53 of 1908, entitled aan Act to
create the Parish Of Eyangeline and
to provide for the organization there
Is" that said Act ii not a law enaes-
ed for the purpose of changing
parish lines and It any line were
changed thereby, which is not ad-
mitted, but particularly denied, such
change would be 4 mere incident ST
the creation Of the new parish,
End That Section Of said Act
alIots one representative, n the
House of Representatives, to tie
Parish Of EyangeIine, until otherwise
provided; that this was perfectly
legal and proper enactment disturb
ing the representation of ia other
parish ii said lower branch of the
State Legislature; that The State or
condition Of fact, as to the number
at representatives permitted under
the Constitution. at the time this acb
was passed warranted the Legislature
IN providing Tor one reprasen lave.
as 1t is said, for Che Parish of Evan
geline; that the constitutionaiity vel
non of The said Act must BIZ deter
mined ID accordance with The eondi
tion 0r rather state of facts existing
at the time Of its passage
And interven0rs, here, specially
plead an estoppel against plaintiffs
availing themselves of Act no. INA
Of the General Assembly for the year
1903, Creating The Parish ef Liagalle,
as q further ground Of uneonstitutiou-
ality of the Act creating the Parish
of Egangeline, for The reason that
they themselves have declared al Act
creating the new parish b be nn-
constitutional, null and Void, unless
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