Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

and another of the votes given for
senators and members of the assembly.
when the county constitutes one or
| more senate or assembly district, spe-
cifying the number of votes for each
person for senator and member of as
sembly In each such district respec-
lively. They shall append to each such
statement as part thereof a succinct
tabular exhibit. in figures. Of the votes
! cast at each election poll in the county
for each office and person entering in
to the canvass embraced in such state
ment, whether canvassed or not, and
II any votes were rejected shall specify
the reasons therefor. Each statement
shall be certified as correct and at
tested by the signatures Of the said
the office of the county clerk.
(Section 87) /. The county clerk
shall, within seventeen days after any
general election. transmit to the secre-
tary of state certified copy of each
statement of the county board of can
vassers of the votes given for electors
of president and vice president, state
officers, senators and representatives
of assembly, where. the senate and as
sembly district embraces more than
one county. The names of persons not
regularly nominated receiving a COM
be omitted from the returns Of the
county clerk and their votes returned
as scattering votes.
(Section 94a) 4. Upon the certi-
fed statements and returns SO received
the board shall proceed to examine and
make a statement of the whole num-
Der of votes given at any such election
for each elector Of president and vice
president, in every year in which there
is a presidential election; a statement
for each Of the offices of governor,
lieutenant governor, secretary of state,
treasurer attorney general, or any
other state officer, If any there shall
be, or United States senator; state
ment of the votes given for repre-
sentative in congress in each congress
Sional district; statement of the votes
given TO-. state senator in each sena-
torial district embracing more than one
given for member of assembly in each
assembly district embracing more than
one county.
Section CAB. Said secretary shall re-
cord in his office each certified state
ment and determination so made by
said board, and forthwith make and
transmit to each of the persons thereby
declared to be elected, a certificate Of
his election under the lesser seal, and
cause copy Of such certified state
ments and determinations to be pub
lished in newspaper printed at the
seat Of government. He shall also
attested by him as secretary Of state,
and addressed, respectively, to the
United States senate and to the house
of representatives in that congress for
chosen, of the due election of such
person as a United States senator or
as representative of this state in con-
gress, as the case may be, and trans
house at the first meeting thereof;
and if any of the persons so chosen at
such election shall have been elected
to supply a vacancy in the office of
oh T-if Nl C4af
sentative it shall be mentioned in such
certificate.
Section oak. All vacancies in the
office of senator or representative in
bly, or in any state office Except gov
ernor and lieutenant governor) may be
filled at a general or special election,
or by appointment in the cases provid-
occur within four months, and if in
state office or in that of state sena-
tor or senator or representative in con-
gress more than twenty days, before
the general election; and when occur
ring earlier than said four months; If
it shall not have been supplied by spe-
cial election, the same shall be filed
at the general election next succeeding
the happening thereof. When va
cancy shall occur in any such office
except United States senator, repre-
sentative in congress. senator or mem
Der of assembly, within six months
next before the end of the term, no
election shall be held, but the same
shall be filed by appointment or other
wise as provided by law
Section 94l. If a vacancy shall ex-
list in the office of state senator,
senator or representative in congress
or in any state office which by law
should be supplied at the ensuing
general election, the secretary of state
shall, twenty days at least before such
election, give notice in writing to the
clerk of each cGnnfV when the
is in a state office, or in case of such
vacancy in a district then to the clerk
of each county therein, specifying the
cause of such vacancy, the name of
and the time when his term of office
will expire. Upon receipt thereof the
county clerk shall thereupon forthwith
cause a notice containing the substance
transmitted by mail to each town clerk
and the clerk Of each village in which
by law separate general elections are
to be held, and to one of the inspec-
each election district in his county.
Such clerks and inspectors shall cause
the same to be posted at least five days
before election in the manner pre-
Scribed in chapter 5.
(Section 94m) CD When there
shall have been neglect or failure to
choose at a general election a senator
or representative in congress, senator,
MEMBER OF assembly,, or any county OF
ficer who by law should have been
chosen at such election.
Section 94X. If a senator or a rep
resentative in congress shall resign, he
shall forthwith transmit a notice of
his resignation to the secretary of
state; and if a vacancy shall occur by
death or otherwise in the office of
senator or representative in congress,
the county clerk Of the county in which
such United States senator or repre-
sentative shall nave resided at the
time of his election SHALL without de-
lay, transmit notice of such vacancy
to the secretary of state.
Section g. There is added to the
statutes a new section to read: Section
94w-1. /. A senator in the congress
of the United States shall be chosen at
the general election in the year one
thousand nine hundred and fourteen
and every six years thereafter and also
in the year one thousand nine hundred
and sixteen and every six years there
after
2. The names of all persons nomi-
mated for the office of United States
senator shall be printed on the ballot
provided in subsection / Of section SO
in substantially the manner and form
Indicated in the annexed form "a"
provided in subdivision (a) of sub
section II Of section 38, SO that each
elector may designate on such ballot
the name Of his first choice and also
he Of bic tba