Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-04-03
SENATE VOTES
Fob APRIL 16
AS 0ATE OF ELECTION OF UNIT.
ed STATES SENATOR.
DETERMINED OPPOSITION
Strenuous Efforts, Sven to Call of
the House, Put Forth to Delay
Acknowledging Resolution Fl
nalIy Adopted Almost Unanimously
Senatorial Courtesy Criticized.
Madison, March %.

Madison, March %.
After debate of an hour and a
brief call of the house, the. senate
yesterday adopted the joint resolution
offered by Senator Ensting. democrat.
providing that the legislature begin
on April III to vote for a successor to
United States Senator John c. Spoon
er. The resolution had been laid
over from Tuesday and Senator Bra.
zeau moved that il be referred to the
| Judiciary committee. When the final
vote was taken the only negative
| vote was cast bg Senator Page. THAT
call az the senate was contemplated
was apparent at the opening Of the
| session, when. objections were raised
to granting leaves Of absence to all
| abseBtees Senator Barker asking the
leaves and withdrawing his request
after a conference with Senators Nun.
son and HudnalL Senator Wilcox
! then askeG leave for the absentees
and Senators Roehr, Page and Hud.
nah each stated that Senators Fair.
child, Hagemeister. WolF and White
head, who were absent. desired no
| leave, Therefore they remained alb
sent without leave and the way re.
manned open for a eau of the house.
| Senator Brazeau moved that the Hust-
ing resolution be referred to the judi
ciafy committee. The ayes and noes
resulted as follows:
For reference: Senators Barker
/ Brazeau, Froenming, Huduall. Mum
son. Page, Roehr Wright-S.
Against; Senators Bird, Bishop.
Browne, Fridd, Hazelwood. Husting,
Lockney, Marsh, Martin, Morris, No
bic, Owen, Pearson, Rummel, San
born, Smith, Stout, Wilcox-1S.
! Senator Roehr moved that action be
deferred until April 10, declaring that
action at this time, with similar
resolution in the judiciary committee
/ (the Smith rese.aaon) would be dis
corteous to tho committee Senator
Husting objected saying that the
Smith resolution, which provided for
electing senator on March 10. had
died by lapse of time. Senators Bra
zeau and Roehr argued that the Smith
| resolution was not dead, that the mat
ter Of specific date was not the essen
tial point involved, but that It was
the legal question of whether or not
the legislature could safely elect a
senator prior to May first, when the
vacancy would actually exist by the
taking effect of the res !gnati0n OF
Senator Spooner. Some discussion
and misunderstanding arose regarding
what the judiciary committee had
done with the Smith resolution, some
members thinking that it had been
the subject of tie vote and then
laid over for a day, but it was ascer.
tanned that 1t was postponed in the
committee until April 16. Senator
Hazelwood urged immediate action on
the Husting resolution In order to ex-
pedite the WORK of the session, and
Senator Browne urged likewise, add
ing that no possible discourtesy could
be done to the judiciary committee by
taking action at ence. Senator Nor
ris declared that to postpone action
on the Husting resolution would be to
delay the election of senator until
May IA, and he opposed so long de-
lay. Senator I4ockney took a sharp
rap al senatorial courtesy" denounc-
ing it as scheme to block and de-
lay matters under the cloak of cour-
tesy.
Senator Wilcox urged that the SEN
ate take decisive action and not leave
this important question of policy to a
few members on committee The mo-
ton to defer action until April 10 was
lost by the following vote:
To defer: Senators Barker, Bra
zeau. Hudnall, Munson, Noble, Roehr,
Wright.
Against: Senators Bird Bishop,
Brown, Fridd, Froemming, Hazel
wood, Husting, Lockney, Marsh, Mar
tin Morris, Owen, Page, Pearson,
Rummel. Sanborn, Smith, Stout, VIII
cox-19. Senator Page first voted in
the affirmative and changed his vote.
Senator Brazeau. in order to get a
full vote on the question. moved a
call of the house, which motion was
seconded by Senator's Noble, Munson,
Roehr, Wright and Page. The doors
we're accordingly locked and the roll
was called.
The call was quickly raised, on mo-
ton Of Senator Owen, Senators Bar
ker, Brazeau, Froemming, Hudnail.
Munson, Noble Page, Roehr and
Wright opposing The resolution was
then adopted with the sole negative
vote of Senator Page.
The senate refused to concur in the
assembly amendment to the bill to
add two circuit court judges to MIL
waulIee county. The assembly cut
down the number of new judges from
two to one The KAY oil to pay 50
prayer to legislative chaplins was
cOncurred in