The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-06-04

While the committee has not finished
the Stephenson senatorial campaign
was conducted, it has gathered an i'm
mense amount of facts upon which to
base comprehensive measure.
The committees first aim in it's bill
will be to provide for absolute pub
licity of the manner in which cam
paigns are conducted, the amounts of
money spent by candidates, the sources
of all contributions to campaign funds
and the manner in which all moneys
are spent. Then there will be prohib-
tory features, such as restriction of
the activities of poll workers, hiring
of. carriages, ETC., and providing for
separation-so far as possible under
the party system-of the campaign of
one candidate in party from that Of
another of the same party. Finally
there will be stringent penalties, in
Guiding, in addition to fine and impris-
onment disqualification for office
Witnesses Who Didn't Testify.
The committees report on the
sought-after witnesses who have either
ignored subpoenas or are beyond the
reach of subpoenas refers particularly
to the following, in the language of the
resolution adopted by the committee
and transmitted to the senate:
Whereas, This committee subse-
quentIy appointed by the senate to in
vestigate said senatorial primary and
the election of Senator Stephenson by
the legislature to the United States
senate, has been unable to secure the
attendance of several witnesses, no
tably: Senator Stephenson himself,
who was excused temporarily under
promise on his part to return at any
time upon request, but who now re-
fuses to return and testify and who is
at Washington, d. c., beyond the reach
of a subpoena; Rodney A. Sackett, who
was also excused upon the same agree
ment, and who is now in Washington,
d. c., beyond the reach of subpoena
and refuses to return and testify; Ar
thur Lambeck, who was one of the
Stephenson managers, and who is also
in Washington beyond the reach of
subpoena; j. H. Puelicher of Milwau-
kee, who appeared before the joint
committee, and after having testified
in part was excused by the committee
upon his urgent request to be per-
mitted to visit his sick father in Chi
cago and who shortly thereafter with
out returning to Madison and without
notice to the committee, left for Eu-
rope, where he has since been and now
the committee is informed and believes;
Robert Shields, of Superior, Wis,
whom the committee is informed Wis
tied Senator Stephenson in the city OF
Washington after the beginning of the
investigation and returned just prior
to the election of Isaac Stephenson
and acted as the agent of said Stephen
son in his candidacy for United States
senator during the primary campaign
and supported him before the legis-
lature and who has since left the state
of Wisconsin and for whom sub
poena was issued which has been re
turned to the committee unserved, the
sheriff of Douglas county reporting to
the committee as a reason for his not
being able to serve such subpoena that
said Shields does not return nearer to
his home at Superior than the city of
Duluth, which is beyond the reach of
a subpoena of this committee; Henry
Hetting. of st. Croix, Wis.,, who is now
in Winnipeg, Can, and who, the evi-
dence shows, received large sum of
Stephenson campaign money from the
president of the state board of control
and who acted as a campaign manager