The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-25
ALL ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE
TESTIMONY IN GOVERNOR
SHIP CONTEST FOlLED.
FARCICAL BALL0TINC
For u. S. Senator Yesterday, When
36th Ballot Resulted In no
Choice--Chicago Land
Fight Is On.
Special to the Bulldtin.

Special to the Bulldtin.
Springfield, III. Feb. 2i,-Eyery
attempt of the Democrats TO intro
duce testimony in the contest Of the
gOyWnorsip by General Stevenson
was turned down by the Republicans
at the meeting of the joint commit
tee of the senate and house appoint
ed TO consider the contest held to-
night in the senate chamber and
lasting until IL O'Clock.
Representative Earl Reynolds, of
Rockford, chairman of the joint com
mittee, used the gayei against the
Democrats unsparingly. The senate
chamber was filled with members Of
the TWO houses, the meeting being an
open one. and elimination and re-
elimination was banded between the
two parties.
Former Senator Oryille f. Berry
of Carthage, appeared as counsel fo9
Governor Deneen and George A. Cook,
of Aledo, a member of the Democratic
state central committee, and Ross c.
Han, of Chicago, as the attorney for
General Stevenson.
Refuse to Subpoena.
Mr.. Hall offered to produce former
Representative Douglas Pattison, OF
Freeport, to testify that at the re-
count of votes for circuit clerk of
Stephenson county it was found that
nearly 300 votes which had been cast
for Stevenson for governor had been
counted for Deneen
Senator Isley, Democrat, moved
that Mr.. Pattison be sworn as a wit
ness before the committee, but Chair
man Reynolds refused to entertain
the motion. BY party vote the cons
mittee also refused to issue sub
poenaes summoning witnesse to ap-
pear before the committee.
a motion was adopted requiring
General Stevenson to furnish a bill OF
particulars within ten days and the
committee then adjourned until next
Wednesday,
The resolution of Representative
Shanahan submitting the contest to
the committee, provided that the
committee shall report on March ,,
whether or not Stevenson has a pri-
ma facie case Under the resolu-
tion for bill of particulars to be
filed within ten days by Stevenson,
which was passed tonight the com
mittee cannot report by March and
an extension of the time named in
the resolution will be asked for.
Land Grab Fight On.
As the preliminary to a big legal
fight to obtain possession of filled
in" lands along the lake shore from
in Chicago the house this morning
unanimously dapoted the joint reso-
luton offered by Mr. ChipperfielI
for the appointment of a commission
OF six representatives and four sena-
tors to investigate this alleged land
grabbing.
The senate will no doubht concur
in the resolution. 1t is the conten,
tion of Mr.. Chipperfield that the land
"filled-in" by the Illinois Central
Railroad Company along the lake
front in Chicago belonks to the state
and not to the railroad company.
36th Ballot for Senator.
The legislature in joint assembly
today took the the Seth ballot for
United States senator which resulted
i'm no material changes. Twenty mem
bers of the house were present anil
did not vote. Two new candidates
candidates were voted for. Henry
Duggan, coal operator of Toluc1
Marshall country. and Congressman
A. J. SABBATH, of Chicago, both Demo
crats.
That the balotting for United
Safes senator has become a joke and
"a farce Was plainly demonstrated
today upon the part of various mem
bers of the house. who. in casting
their votes, especially for Mr.. Duggan
did so in a farcical manner. The re-
suit of the ballot was as follows:
Hopkins, ca Foss, II; Mason. l.
Louden. /; Sherman, 2; Shurtleff, It;
Stringer, A: SABBATH. 1; Duggan. 10