Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-02-26
TO CLAIM SENATE
SEAT ON NJ ARCH 4
STEPHENSON CLAIMS ELECTION ON
JAN. Is AND TO HAVE SUI
FICIENT PROOFS.
SPOONER WILL HANDLE CASE.
Fight VIII Be Taken Before Washington
committee When Journal Copies of
Vote VIII Be Shown.
GOING TO CAPITAL.

MADISON, Wis. Feb. 25.-[ Special
While not only the Wisconsin Legis-
allure. but statesmen, lawyers and poll
:icians throughout the country have been
waiting patiently for the result of the
investigation into the campaign methods
IT Senator Isaac Stephenson, thinking
hat his entry into the highest admins
.ratlYe body would depend in part upon
he committees report, the aged sena
.or's lawyers all the time have held doc
lments which, in their opinion, will
make the Marinette multi-millionaire a
member of the body just as soon as the
Senate committee on elections can pass
upon the case.
Journal Copies Sent East.
Since February 1 there have been in
he hands of Mr.. Stephenson's attorneys
certified copies of the journals of the
Wisconsin Assembly and Senate setting
.orth the separate ballots on the United
states senator. y representative of the
milwaukee, firm of Cary, Upham q Black
got the certified copies and presumably
hey nave been sent east to attorneys
VINO Will speak on Stephenson's behalf
oefofe the United States Senate COM
mlttee on elections. Incidentally it has
become known that Mr.. StephensOn's at
orney on February 1, was not content
WIN one certified copy Of each of the
journals but requested and got three,
nus indicating that one or more of them
would go to Washington
Senate VIII Be Judge.
Confirmation of certain rumors makes
it plain that there is every chance that
by March 6 Senator Stephenson will
nave been installed as senator from Wis
c0nSln under the fifth section of the
United States constitution which says
that Each house shall be the judge of
the elections, returns and qualifications
OF Its own members"
When the new senators on March 4
are called upon for their credentials, Oh
lection will be made to seating Stephen
son. That will place the case in the
hands of the election committee, of
which Senator Julius G. Barrows of
Michigan is chairman. This committee
will take up the case and it already is
assured that it will report that Stephen
son is duly elected, the certified copies
of the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly
journals by clerks Z. E. Andrews and
c. e. Shaffer being the chief exhibits,
these journals showing that Stephenson
on January 26 got twelve votes in the
Senate, sixteen members voting pres
ent," and sixty in the Assembly, a ma
jority of those voting.
Spooner to Handle Case.
While it is not definitely known lust
who will represent Mr.. Stephenson as
attorney before the committee on cleo
tons in Washington, it is said that for
mer Senator John c. Spooner will be
the man. the choiC& of the Madison
statesman being natural because of his
international reputation as an expert in
constitutional questions 1t is known
that neither Messrs. Hyzer nor Black
of Cary, Upham q Black are going to
Washington, although it is said that Mr..
Black collected the Madison exhibits to
be used in the Washington argument.
One of StephensOn's close adv isOrs will
go to Washington for the Inauguration
March 4. Chairman E. A Edmonds of
the Republican state committee has res
ervatiOns there for the ceremony and ex-
poets to leave next Monday with Mrs.
Edmonds. Rodney Sackett will go if the
investigating committee gets through
with him in time