Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-27
Philip IS DENIED
APP0|NT|VE POWER
SENATE TURNS DOWN GOVERN
oR'S PLAN TO NAME HUST.
ING'S SUCCESSOR.
PEOPLE TO ELECT SENATOR
Governor Non-CommittaI on Date of
Special EIection-Lieut. Gov. Dith-
mar and Joseph &. Davies Are
Probable Candidates.

Madison-The Wisconsin senate de.
eided the United States senatorial is
sue by killing the Burke bill, granting
Gov e. L. Philip power to name the
late Senator Paul o. Hastings sue
cessor. Gov. Philip was beaten, % to
3, with Senators Burke, Cunningham
and Roethe the only members to sup
port the appointment.
Just prior to this action in the SEN
ate, the assembly, by vote of 80 to
10, adopted Assemblyman Arnold OF
to's resolution requesting the governor
to call special election in April. The
resolution was rushed over to the SEN
ate, where it was killed by a vote of
II to IS.
Administration men circulated the
tip from the executive department,
that, should the senate concur in the
house vote recommending a senatorial
election in the spring, Gov. Phillip
would Immediately issue the election
call, but this the senate refused to do
| because the members seemed to con-
slider the time too short for thorough
campaign in the interest of loyalty.
Gov. Philip declined to say whether
he would call a special election for
April or let the matter drift into the
general election in November.
eff this measure had passed. said
the governor, 81 should have looked
upon it as directory, not mandatory.
| The idea that insufficient time exist
ed for calling special election is err
roneous."
Gov. Philips failure to get his ap-
pointment bill through, occasioned no
surprise Public sentiment is strongly
in favor of the special election so that
| the people may meet the challenge
! that this state is not loyal. Members
! of the legislature came here with that
idea fixed in their minds, and at no
time have they shown any inclination
to swing to the governors side.
The break in the senatorial situa-
ton came unexpectedly after Senator
Whitman called on Gov. Philip and
told him that the bill to give him ap-
pointive power could not be passed in
the senate. Thereupon the governor
called Assemblyman Otto to his office
and asked hi INTO press an early vote
on his resolution for special election
next spring.
| Acting upon that suggestion, Otto
brought the resolution to the attention
| of the judiciary committee, which re-
| ported it to the assembly without rec
ommendation. Otto said that the peo
| pie wanted to elect United States
senator, but the question of whether
| the election should be held in the
spring or next November, was a mat
| ter of policy, he decided. He was the
| only one who spoke on the resolution,
the members evidently having decided
| how they would vote.
The house adopted the Otto resolu-
ton by a vote of 80 to 10, with As
semblymen J. Anderson, c. B. Carter,
j. c. Chapple, Theodore Engel, F.
| Grass, p. V. Lawson, w. E. Jordan,
J. J. Ruka, John Camper and G.. H.
Saugen voting in the negative.
The legislatures action eliminates
as a senatorial possibility Congress
man Irvine L. Lenroot, Superior, the
man Gov. Philip planned to name to
the seat, had his plan gone through.
tLenroot, now a power in congress, will
not peril his chances for the speaker
ship for which he is in line when the
Republicans return to power, to chance
defeat In a senatorial race. The Demo
Gratis are openly advancing the cause
of Joseph E. Davies, said to carry the
federal administration O. K. There
was some talk on the Republican side
of Gov. Philip, as the G. o. P. can
didate, it being pointed out that the
governor has campaign for re-elec-
ton ahead of him next fall, and that
he has not yet announced his candi-
dacy for a third term in the state
house. This talk comes in the face of
the state central committees an
nouncement that Philip has assured
members of that body that he is not
senatorial candidate. Lieut.. Gov. E. F.
Dithmar will be the La Toilette can
didate, it is believed, whether the
election be held in April or permitted
to go oper until fall.
Perhaps no request ever made by
Wisconsin governor stirred up so stiff
a contest from the press and public
as Philips plea for power to name
the new senator. Almost since the
tragic death of the Wisconsin solon
at Rice Lake last fall most of the state
newspapers have clamored for spe-
cha detection. Philip announced his
intention of calling a special session
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