State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Becker

WHITE, J. —

A proceeding by mandamus to compel the Secretary of State to receive and file the relator’s declaration, of his candidacy for Congress of the United States. The petition recites portions of the Act of Congress, 1929, providing for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, and authorizing the President to transmit to each state a message designating the number of members of Congress apportioned to such state, in accordance with such census. It sets out a message of the President to Congress in pursuance of Section 22 (a) of that act, stating that Missouri is entitled to…