Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-02-05
UNCLE IKE" READY
TO FILE ACCOUNT
WILL TELL OF EXPENDITURES AT
ONCE IF ELECTED THIS
WEEK.
SPENT $4,000, 1T is SAID.
Mr.. Puelicher in Washington Preparing
Statement Is Report at
Madison.
OPINIONS ON FIRST BALLOT.

MADISON, Wis, Feb. 1.-[Special.1
If Isaac Stephenson is reelected Unit
ed States senator this week the filing
of his expense account will follow very
shortly. That is the story from inside
sources in Madison. John III. Puelicher,
cashier of the Marshall & Ilsley bank of
Milwaukee, who acts as fiscal agent for
the senator in political matters, is now
in Washington comforting with Mr.. Ste
phenson on the account. The last items
are being appended and when Mr.. Puel-
icher returns to Milwaukee he will carry
the completed statement. It will show
that Senator Stephenson spent a little
less than $4,000. 1t will not go into
close detail but will, nevertheless, be
quite comprehensive document, show
ing, in all probability how much money
was spent in various counties toward or
ganization, etc.
Will Confer with Edmonds.
When Mr.. Puelicher reaches Milwau-
kee he will go into conference with
Chairman b. A. Edmonds, who managed
the senator's primary campaign and
after their scanning of the items in the
statement, it will go to Madison to be
filed at the right time. If Senator Ste
phenson's election by the joint conven-
ton of the Legislature does not take
place next week the statement will be
filed the following week. At all events
it will be filed long before the thirty
days succeeding January 26, have
elapsed.
Mr.. Edmonds, as is we'll known, goes
on the assumption that Senator Stephen
son was reelected by the joint ballots
Of Tuesday, January 20, when fifteen
senators voted present and refused to
state their preference. the vote following
close upon the heels of Senator J. J.
Blain's specific charges of the corrupt
use of money in the pre-primary cam
palgn.
Opinions from Washington.
Mr. Edmonds and other friends of the
senator at Madison have received
bulky package of opinions from the ma
tioI al capital in which it is set forth
that the senator was reelected accord
ingly to law and the constitution, last
his actions by this hypothesis and init
mates that if the joint convention does
not 'ratify" Tuesdays election before
long there will be proceedings designed
to prove that the senator actually has
been reelected to the high body in
Washington.
The Stephenson men now have hope
that on Tuesday the Senate will concur
in the Assembly joint resolution relat-
ing to the primary investigation and
that the joint body, after it understands
their stand in favor of the probe, will
make haste to elect, leaving it to the
United States Senate to act upon the
matter in view of the report of the in
vestigation, which must be concluded
tO tho Scarnhlv
by March l.
''Uncle Ike's" Friends Sore
There was sore feeling among
Stephenson's supporters on Friday when
the Senate refused to suspend the rules
and consider the amended resolution.
Under the rules the amended resolution
must lie over twenty-four hours, thus Civ
ing time for it to be printed in full in
the Senate journal. Senator Page, who
acts for the friends in the upper house,
moved Friday afternoon that the rules
be suspended and the amended resolu-
ton considered. Senator Sanborn object
ed and under the rules, a motion to sus'
pend must be concurred in unanimously
Thus the resolutions went over and
shortly thereafter the houses adjourned
until Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
What Might Have Happened.
If the Senate had taken up the amend
ed resolution and concurred in them, AS
semblyman Werhwein, who changed his
vote from Stephenson on Thursday,
would have given his vote to the Mari
nette man. 1t is surmised that several
others who have not been voting for him,
seeing the disposition to rush the inves-
tigation, would have voted for Stephen,
son. Also, in the light of this hoped
for action, the houses would not have ad-
journed, but would have remained over
Stephenson men being that a ballot fol-
lowing quickly upon the heels of the
Senate's concurrence, would have settled
the matter, or, in the words. of Chairman
Edmonds, would have ratified the vote
of Tuesday,
Assemblymen LIE Roy, Cleary, Ham
brecht and many others expressed the
keenest Indignation over the action OF
the Senate and declared that the men
they had relied upon to carry out the
voice expressed at the primary, were not
acting in good faith.