Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-10

ances that said trials can commence
on or about the 10th of April, 1908
and
Insists on Immunity.
whereas. it is now understood that
the said Senator Barney "A. Eaton will
insist upon his legislative exemption
from criminal proceedings during the
present SESSION of the legislature, and
Whereas, said Senator Barney A.
eaton has presented himself and
taken his seat in the senate with the
announced intention of participating
in the deliberations of this holy;
Request for Absentaton.
"Now therefore resolved by the
senate of the state of Wisconsin, that
the said Senator Barney A. Eaton be
requested to ask for a leave Of alb
sence until the said indictments
against him shall be disposed of and
until the state senate shall have had
opportunity to take such action as it
my deem advisable in reference to his
testimony, hereto attached, and as to
such other matters as may be proper
ly brought before the senate in con-
nection Herewith; and
Legislative Investigation.
Further resolved, that providing
the said Senator Barney A. Eaton re-
fuses to immediately ask for said
leave of absence as hereinbefore set
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senate, without delay, to investigate
the said charges of bribery and cor
rupt acts against him and to take
such action in the premises as may
be necessary and proper under Sec
ton S, Article w. of the constitution
of the state of Wisconsin; and
Further resolved, that committee
composed of five members of the
senate be appointed by the presi-
dent thereof to prepare charges
against said Senator Barney A. Eaton,
and that said committee is hereby in
vested with plenary powers to per
form and discharge the duties by this
resolution enjoined, and in the ex-
exercise of the plenary power afOre-
said, among other things, may send
for and compel the attendance of per-
sons before them and the production
of papers and documents for use as
evidence, and
Further resolved, that said COM
mittee shall also have power to ad-
minister to persons brought Or appear
ing before them as witnesses all neces-
sary oaths and shall with all reason
able dispatch discharge the duty here
by imposed and report to the legisla-
ture the facts found and the testi-
mony taken by them
Rummel Makes a Speech.
Aside from the Eaton matter there
was little business In the senate. Two
joint resolutions by Senator Rummel.
the social democratic member from
Milwaukee, were on the calendar for
action and were killed quietly after
the author of them had made speech.
The measures provided for the gradu-
al abolition of all exclusive fran
chises for the operation of public
utilities, giving two years in which the
present proprietors of such franchises
and the plants connected herewith
might sell their properties to the mu-
inequalities in which they were sit
uated, and after that time making
exclusive franchises unlawful The
social democratic member made a
brief argument on the evils and extor-
ton involved in private monopoIies OF
public utilities and upon the advant-
ages of public ownership and opera
ton.
Senator Roehr's bill to regulate the
consolidation and reinsurance of do
nestle insurance companies was read
the third time and passed. The bill
by the same senator to create a shade
tree commission in Milwaukee was adj
vanced to engrossment.
The Turner bill to outlaw the large
frecrackers was on the calendar for
advancement, but was laid over. The
same was the action on the assembly
bill to reduce the amount or wage
exemption from garnishment from
$50 to $50.
The senate meets next at 10 o'clock
this morning.