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A PROTEST
Mr. SPANN submitted a protest, notice of which he gave on Saturday, to go into the journal of that day it is signed by seventeen Republican Senators, against the Voyles resolution adopted on Saturday night, which makes the veto take precedence of all other business. The resolution was protested against for the following reasons:
- Because said rule is arbitrary and unjust, and made for a partisan purpose and to subserve a political end.
- Because said rule was made by a majority for the special purpose of assisting said majority in the passage of an unjust, unwise and unwholesome and vicious law known as the metropolitan police bill.
- Because said rule was made by a majority to assist in the passage of a bill which should be entitled a bill to destroy the right of the local self-government by the inhabitants of the city of Indianapolis.
- And because said rule is at variance with all other known rules of parliamentary law for the government of parliamentary bodies.
The protest was entered upon the journal.
