Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-12-07
WILL SOON
TAKE TOCA
Governor Announces
Acceptance OF
Senatorship
Tells Legislature He
Will Resign Before
Session Closes
But Will Ever Fight
in the Politics OF
Wisconsin

AS soon as he can pack his capaciouS
trunk, settle a few details of executive
work including The decision of the Kit
tell case from Green Bay, place the
governors office in apple pie order ana
possibly hang d picture of King Haak-
on VII ON The spot where viii fall the
gaze of the gubernatorial eye OF his
worthy Norwegian successor,-an
perhaps. sign few of the bills sug.
gested in his yoluminous message,
Governor La Toilette will be ready to
acquire the right to draw federal mile
age from Wisconsin 10 Washington,
and as a bride led to the alter (maybel
walk with bashfUl bushes up the CEN
ter aisle of the United States senate,
leaning (?) on The arm of his col
league, John c. Spooner.
Into such sentence might be
iumbled the mass Of speculation and
gossip that followed the reading OF the
governors message to the specially
convened legislature yesterday, closing
with the supplementary message M
nouncing, frankly and without qualttl-
cation the determination OF the eNccr,
tive to resign the gOvernorship 10
Lieutenant Governor Davidson and "ac-
cept he high commission of the Unit
ed States senatorship. Upon the
whole the message WAS listened to with
Thoughtful recepdyeness on the part ct
the senators and asscmblymen, but
the senatorship declaration was moi
with burst of applause chat came as
a climax to the approving Clippings
that punctuated the main address. =
correspondent of stalwart factional in
Clnations remarked to a member stat
wart only in physical proportions
The way you pound your palms at
that, you must be glad he's going 10
leave the state"
Then came the governors closing
sentence, declaring that he woulo
continue active personal partict
patton in every contest involving the
principles of representative govern,
ment in this commonwealth; no Office
and no honors could tempt me to fore.
go the right to work aggressively in
this field, where the best of my life has
been spent and where shah ever feei
that my first and last obligato"
rests.
Everybody wondered how soon the
governor would resign,-and everybody
seemed to know "all the time that he
would never give up the senatorship.
Some critics who assume to know alt
about things political declared that II
was possible that friends of the gov
crnor had impressed him with the
thought that he ought not longer 10
keep the people of the state in dOnh,
Of the commonwealth on half represeu-
tation in the federal senate, however
able may be the other half Of the rep.
recontation." 1t seems tolerably Ger
tain that the supplementary message
WIS prepared at a late hour; whether
by accident or because the governors
mind was not made up until late is not
generally known and is unimportant
even though it might be interesting
Unqualified Acceptance.
The separate message, concerning
the senatorship is as follows;
ITO the senate ana assembly in
joint sessions: Upon the 25th day Of
January last you elected me to repre-
sent Wisconsin as United States sen
ator. was then, and while | live
shall continue to be, profoundly CRATE
full for the great honor which you con
ferred upon me. But certain fixed OBJ
legations bound me to continue as
governor. Laws involving millions of
dollars were being challenged in the
courts. Legislation vital to the state
was pending, | could not, in good
conscience, offer more than quail
fed acceptance.
"The close of the session found the
litigation undecided, the new laws ur
tried. Adverse decisions in the cir
cult court might call promptly for
curative legislation The admnistra-
ton OF the new laws might disclose
defects requiring immediate remedy.
The railway interests and those rep
resenting them were not only OBJ
structing the collection Of taxes, but
seeking to discredit the new legisla-
ton. Every reason made It plain
duty to await the circuit court deci-
sions, and the testing of the new laws
In their administration
Time has entirely justified this
course. The attitude OF the railway
companies in contesting every assess