Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-04-16
THE LEGISLATURE,
SENATE.
MONDAY April 70


MONDAY, April. 10.
The Bray senatorial Investigation resoln
ton from the Assembly was laid over until
Wednesday. The committee On claims In
troduced bill raising the salary of the
state bank examiner from S3ONl ia SIHWl
Ter wear. The Sanhorn naval militia bIII
was killed, and a bill providing for betterI
protection of the forests from fires WAS
passed ON recommendation of the Senate
forestry committee.
ASSEMBLY.
MONDAY, APRIL Is.
The Assembly rushed matters at the onor.
ing session after the Easter recess and i'm
less than an hour and half thirteen bills
were killed, seven laid over and half a
dozen engrosscd. Mr.. EStabrook's bin 70
curing a majority vote to nominate for
the United States senatorship was booked
to be killed, but was saved by Mr.. Esta-
brook. who asked that it be laid over for.
consideration at some future date. TwaI
Milwaukee bills, one limiting TO 3 per cent
of the assessed amount of taxable property
the aggregate funded debt in railway bonds
previously issued by the city, and the other
making it obligatory upon the school board
to inform the common council of all in
tended repairs in school buildings were
ordered engrosSed.
INVESTIGATION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Z.
Former District Attorney Frank E. Nc
Govern was ON the stand when the Spna
torial investigation committee resumed its
hearings after last weeks adjournment
Mr.. McGovern told of several notes be had
given to raise cash during. the primary
campaign and explained a Marshall & lis
ley bank check issued to him by saying that
he had borrowed 5000 from that bank. lie
denied emphatically that he had received
aid from the Stephenson workers and stat
ed that that story had been traced to In
surance Commissioner George Becdle and
w. D. Conner. The committee will sit
through until Saturday, April 10, on which
daV activity
ceases.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8.
When Gov. Davidson was teephoned to
today at Soldiers Grove by Assemblyman
Bray to find out whether he would appear
voluntarily before the investigating com
mittee to tell what he did with the $12O0
governor said he was too busy to come
Lack to Madison at this time. The COVER
nor vii: lie s"tE roe by the commit S175
for himself, he stated Deputy Game War
den Hickman gave the lie to Chief Game
Warden Stone by denying that he had re-
ceived any money from Stone as the latter
had testified. Assembyman DomachoWsN
of Milwaukee stated to the committee last
night that the story that he had been Of
session on March 4 was started by him as
q joke. AsSemblymGn Farrell and Ramsey
explained their absence from the session by
stating that they had become disguised
with the proceedings and simply remained
away, Ramsey adding that he had been
paired with AssemblYman FenelOn of Ripon,
who was i'll at the time.
FRIDAY, APRIL 9.
Gov. Davidson informed the investigating
committee today that he would appear Sat
urday without the service of the subpoena
issued yesterday and tell what he did with
the $1,000 raised by the game warden H ana
given to him during the campaign. Rumors
today were to the effect that the Assembly
members of the committee would submit in
dividual reports on the investigations 1t IS
said that the Senate members will not re
port until the special investigation ordered
by the Senate is completed. A motion was
passed by the committee to certify the
name Of l.. H. Stevens of Lancaster to the
Legislature to be tried for contempt for
failure to appear in answer to subpoena
served on him by the committee. Deputy
game wardens occupied the stand all day
game wardens was Of the usual order that
they had received and spent money in the
interests Of the Stephenson campaign.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10.
The last day of the legislative inyestiga-
ton furnished a mild sensation in the ap,
pearance of Gov. James 0. Davidson to tell
what he knew of the $1,000 campaign fund
raised for him by the state game wardens.
left at his office on two different occasions
by Chief Game Warden Stone and that he
Davidson did not know where the money
came from or for what purposes it was to
be used He stated that the money was
still on deposit at the bank and that be was
ready to turn it back to the contributors
when it was shown that game wardens had
did not consider the raising of money by
state employees violation of the civil iserv,
Ice law, provided they did it voluntarily as
was the case with the fund raised by Mr.,
Stone Immediately following the governor,
Deputy Game Warden Edward O'Connor
stated that Stone had told him that the
and that he the governor) had remarked
that s'the boys (meaning the game wardens.
were doing too much for him, Several
game wardens were examined during the
day When all the testimony was in As
semblyman Hambrecht moved that the
names of all state employees who, had been
politically active in the last and previous
campaigns be certified to the attorney gen
eral and that official be asked to give an
opinion as to whether or not they hau
acted in violation of the civil service law.
The motion was carried unanimously.