Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-03-13
JOINT RESOLUTION cENSURES
BADGER SENATOR FOR
WAR ATTITUDE.
ASSEMBLY VOTE is So TO 81
Lower House in Deadlock for Week
Over Amendment to Loyalty
Pledge - Marks End of
Stormy Special Session.

Madison, WlS.-The Wisconsin leg
islature has repudiated United States
Senator Robert M. La Foliette's atti-
tude on the world war. After seven
teen-hour session, the lower house
went on record. by vote of SO to 81,
as opposing the senator's stand. The
senate passed the La Toilette con
demnation measure more than week
ago.
The special session of the legisla-
ture, perhaps the stormiest gathering
ever held by Badger lawmakers, is
practically adjourned.
The joint resolution that now goes
to the world as the formal expression
of Wisconsin legislature regarding its
only United States senator says:
And we condemn Senator Rob-
ert M. La Toilette and all others
who have failed to see the
cause, who have failed to sup
port our government in matters
vital to the winning of the war,
and we denounce any attitude or
utterance of theirs which has
tended to incite sedition among
the people of our country and to
injure Wisconsin's fair name be-
fore the free people of the world.
The real test came on the earlier
vote of Al to As by which the amend
ment to the Wilcox amendment, pro-
posed by Representative Rosa of Be
Ia dofn
The Rosa amendment said:
"And we respectfully request the
senate of the United States, before
which charges have been made against
United States Senator Robert M. La
Toilette, to at once hear and deter
mine said question and to take such
action with reference thereto as in
their judgment the merit Of said case
demands, and if it shall appear that
United States Senator Robert M. La
Toilette has been guilty of any trail
torous or solutions conduct or has in
jured our country's cause we condemn
him for such conduct"
Break in Long Deadlock.
The smash-up of the deadlock came
after members of the assembly had
been kept locked in their chamber for
nineteen consecutive hours. In the
fifty-three who were recorded as Vot-
ing for the denunciation of La Toilette
were forty-four Republicans and nine
Democrats. The thirty-two who stayed
with La Toilette to the last were
twenty Republicans, eight Socialists,
and four Democrats.
Eight Republicans who had voted
for the Rosa amendment switched on
the final roll call and voted for the
Wilcox amendment
The eight were Aulenbacher, Enge-
bretson, Hager, ]. G. Hanson, Kan
dutsch, Kurtenacker, Stone, and Will
liams.
Assemblyman Rosa and Evjue were
the chief defenders of Senator La Fol-
lette. Both relied chiefly upon the as
sertion that lying newspapers were re-
sponsible for the attacks that have
been made upon the senator. Evjue
claimed that war prof1teers are back
of the anti-Ila Toilette propaganda and
charged that the senator was expelled
from the Madison club through the
efforts of the owners of a company
that had made profits of $3,500,000 in
two years on a capitalization of ST.
250,000. Mr.. Evjue also denounced
Roosevelt, and said that La Toilette
had never said things half as objec.
tionable as had been uttered by the
colonel
Roll Call on Final Vote.
The roll call on the Wilcox amend
ment follows:
Yeas-Anderson, Armstrong, Aulen
bacher. BATHS, Beggs, Bernardy, Brad
ley, Buckley, Campbell, Carpenter
Carter, Chapple, Chinook, Chapman
Clark, Donnelly. Edwards, Engbretson
| Engel, ~Everson, Frohmander, Gettle
man, Grell, Hager, J. C. Hanson, Hine
mann, Jansen, Jeske. Kandutsch, Ku
| batzki, Kurtenacker, Lawson, Marlett
Dell Miller, O'Brien, Otto, Peterson
| Poole, Rappell, Rogers, Ruka, w. l.
Smith. Stone, Szewczykiwski, Thomas
Vaughan, Vincent, B. Webster, S. Web
ster, Nottingham, Williams, Young
Whittet.
Nays-Casperson, Duffy, Evjue
Feldhausen, Freehoff, Galbrath, Gam
per, c.. B. Hanson, Hart, Hedrick
Hemmy, Hess, Jensen, Jordan, Kent
Luehrs, Marth, Melvin, Metcalf, v. v
Miller, Nordman. Obi, Poor, Rosa
Saugen, SCHNEIDER, Schroeder, Smith
| (Milwaukee), Turner, Van Doran
| Wickert, Whitman.
| Not Voting-Johnson.