Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-09
The Crucial Vote.

Madison, Feb. 5.
For engrossment-Messrs. Aims
worth. Andrew, Armenian, Bartlett,
Becker, BeedIe, Braddock, Bradford,
Breitwisch, Britain, Cady, Carpenter,
Chandler, Cosgrove, Crowley, Dahl,
Dinsdale, Dixon, Donald, Doolittle,
Douglas, Dudgeon, Ekern, Evans, d.,
Jr., Finnegan, Frear, Fridd, Fritzke,
Gilman, Haderer, Hamm, Hasa, Hold
gins, Irvine, Johnson, F., Johnson, H.,
Johnson, Thos., Johnston, Karel, Keh-
rein, Kimball, Kinney, Koch, La Du,
Lang, Lenroot, LIE Roy, LOebs, Lord,
Martin, Miller, Morgan, Morris, Peter
son, Potter, Rank, Ray, Reed, Root,
Slider, Smalley, Smoker, Stevens,
Strong, Szymarck, farrell, Terens,
Thiessenhusen, Thoreson, Verbeck,
Waterman, Westfahl, White, Whitson
and WiIliams-76.
Against engrOs sment-Me ssrs. Bark
er. Bartzen, Benson, Carberry, Coff
land, Evans, E. W., Hannifin, Hartung,
Kern, Moldenhauer, Osborn, Price,
Reynolds, Rupp, Slade, Smith, c. H.,
Thompson, Timlin, Wallrich and Will
lotto.
The primary election I'LL known as
the committee BILL number 97a,
was passed to engrossment and third
reading in the assembly yesterday al
ternoon, the final vote being decisive
.-76 in favor and 20 in opposition.
Assemblymen Valentine and A. E.
Smith were paired in favor OF and
against respectively, and Assembly
men Cowling and Lane were absent.
Party lines were no more plO-
nounced in the vote than fractional
lines OF the 20 opposing votes, 9
were cast by stalwart republicans anu
ii by democrats. Thus it seems that
nearly One-half of the democratic
members favored the bill and there
were republican votes. Among those
VINO opposed engrOssment and thlru
reading was Assemblyman Thompson
Of Dane county, who was unable to
carry an amendment setting the time
for the primary election in April rath-
er than in September, six months
rather than two months in advance OF
Nv sincere in his position and made
speech in which he argued that by
setting the time for the primary in the
busy season of the September harvest
the rural vote would be practically
disfranchised. He said he could not
vote for the bill if his amendmentWer
not carried.
By the action of the assembly the
nill is now fixed in the form in which
e will be sent to the senate, as after
engrossnnent lnere can be no amend
ment made other than by unanimous
consent.
The vote was reached late in the al
ternOon after more than four hours
had been consumed in debate. M. J.
Wallrich of ShawanO county led the
opposition with eX-Speaker George H.
Raw of La Crosse. The former sought
TO have the act not apply to officers OF
cities OF the fourth class (the small
est, and the latter sought tO''cut out
application to United States senators
and the state officers. Most OF the
debate was on these proposed amend
: tnents. The fight began in the morn
ing after the regular order had been
finished and when the final vote had
Deen taken in the afternoon the as
sembIy delayed adjournment only
long enough to pass resolution or
regret upon the tragic deaths OF Chief
Foley Of the Milwaukee fire depart
ment and two of his assistants, as the
result of the explosion and fire Tues
day night; also to concur in the SEN
ate action upon the death Of the late
lieutenant Governor Jesse Stone.
i Fight for Delay.
AS soon as Speaker LenrOOt placed
the primary election bill before the
assembly as a special order M. j. Wall
rich of Shawano. proposed a motion
10, Law over the entire matter until
Wednesday night, February II. He.
made a vigorous speech in favor Of his
motion, saying insufficient time had
been allowed for the discussion OF
the bill, that many provisions were in
the measure as printed to which he
could not agree He took occasion.
to- defend the apparent "fop''j in his
position from his statement in the
convention last summer but was
called to order by the speaker.
Asemblyman Frear said the subject
, had been discussed in every speech
in. the last campaign that the two
previous bills on the same subject
d, were introduced early and the pres
:. cnt bill had been printed days ago i'll
all the state. paTBrs.
Z Mr.. Douglas of Green said the bill
ought to be fully understood by this
Tins. Mr.: Root of Orttagatni6 said
the representation Of ignorance
made by Mr.. WalIrich were either
Born Of a spirit Of obstruction or that