The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-03-07
LA TOILETTE IS
REBUKED AGAIN
BY HOME STATE
Wisconsin Assembly Adopts.
So to 30. Senate Resolution
DcnOuncing Him.
SESSION LASTS ALL NIGHT
Deadlock Is Broken After
Each Side Agrees to a
Compromise.

BIZ a STAFF Correspondent OF THE sun.
MADISON. Wis. Mar,h 6-After
stormy all night session during which
all efforts to effect compromise be-
tween La Toilette and anti-La Toilette
forces failed. the Wisconsin Assembly
concurred at noon to-day in the reso-
luton offered by Senator Wilcox and
passed by the Senate condemning SEN
ator Robert NJ. La Toilette. The anti
La Toilette men won signal victory.
the Assembly adopting the resolution
by 80 to 80 vote.
The resolution which tied up the Leg
islaturs in one Of the bitterest political
fights in Wisconsin's history is this:
The people of the state OF wiscon-
sin have always stood behind the Ma
tional Government and always will
stand squarcly in all things that are
essential to bring the present war to a
successful end. and we condemn Sena-
tor Robert NJ. La Toilette and all 9TH
ers who have failed to see the right
eousness OF our nations cause.
who have failed to support our
Government in all matters vital to
the winning OF the war. and we de-
nounce any attitude or utterance OF
theirs which has tended to incite Sc
dition among the people OF our coun-
try. and to injure Wisconsn's fair
name before the free peoples OF the
world
L inn NJ nRR all 1OCk.
The breaking Of the deadlock which held
the Assembly In almost continuous session
since : o'clock last night did not come
until e:l5 this morning after the men,
bers had been placed under the call o!
the house and not allowed to leave the
Assembly chamber for almost twenty
hours 1t came when Speaker Lawrence
Whittet suggested that the leaders OF
the two factions meet and select a COM
mittee OF three to work out a possible
way OF agreement.
After a half hour Of pickering the anti.
La Toilette members OF the committee
agreed to allow Assemblyman Rosa La
Foilcttes floor leader. to introduce his
amendment to the Wilcox resolution, and
to allow Assemblyman Smith. Socialist
to offer his amendment to the Rosa
Amendment. The La Toilette forces !r
their tur1, agreed TO waive their demand'
for an unlimited debate and to confin'
the speeches on both sides to two forty
Ave minute periods.
This agreement also permitted thu
anti-IIa Toilette forces to raise the cal
OF the house.
The Rosa amendment, which elm.
! mated most OF the wording in the Wilco,
! resolution and merely requested that thu
/ United States Senate hasten the hearing
nt,,ct kn in,
Senator. and If found true to condemn
him. was defeated, as was the Smitl
amendment which provided that tn
Senator be not condemned until foun'
guilty.
Opening Of Arguments.
Assemblyman Rosa in opening tho ar
guments for the La Folletteites declared
that the accusations against La Follett
| were made by the newspapers. and tina
the charge that the Wisconsin Senate
had stated in his ST. Paul speech tha
I'VE have no grievance against Ger
many" was contradicted by one copy o
the speech.
Asemblyman Otto. an anti-La Fol
lette leader, said that there was a gen
eral opinion throughout the country tina
Senator La Toilette had been disloya
and he challenged the opponents Of tn
resolution to cite an instance in whic
such charges had ever been denied b
the Badger Senator.
The senior Senator from Wisconsi
has caused an impression to go out int
the world that Wisconsin and some q
it's important officials are not in sympa
thy with the war" said Assemblyma
Thomas q newcomer into the Assembly
in his maiden speech. but the most i'm
portant one is Senator Robert NJ. l.
Toilette"
He asserted that La Toilette shoul
have denied the accusations mad
against him II they were not true.
'I challenge any man TO show any on
thing that La Toilette did to help Wi
the war" he added. Such men a!
dangerous who give comfort to tn
enemy. II any man standing near 70
made an utterance which would g!y
comfort to the enemy 1t would he you
duty to knock his head off.
I'VE have heard a lot about pro-Iiei
mans. The term has been mlsundel
stood to mean American citizens Of Ge,
man blood and sympathy I could z
out and say things or you could. but W
could not set the people afire. We ar
not the idol that Bob La Toilette ha
been for years. That's why he is dar
gerous.
Traitors in Washington.
Don't look alone to the Germans &c
prooa ganda. Right in Washington, wit
MT "a lrnn of German blood in the