Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-03-01
Phillip IS DENIED
APPO|NT|VE POWER
SENATE TURNS DOWN GOVERN
OR'S PLAN TO NAME HUST-
ING'S SUCCESSOR.
PEOPLE TO ELECT SENATOR
Governc- issues Proclamation Naming
April 2 as Date of Special Elec-
tion-Primaries to Be Held
on March 10.

Madison-The Wisconsin senate de-
cided the United States senatorial is
sue by killing the Burke bill, granting
Gov. E. l.. Phillip power to name the
late Senator Paul o. Hastings sue
cessor. Gov. Philip was beaten, % to
5, with Senators Burke, Cunningham
end 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 a special election in April. The
resolution was rushed over to the SEN
ate, where it was killed by vote OF
II to 10.
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. Philip
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.
Special Election on April 2.
Soon after the power of appoint
. ment was refused him, Gov. Phillip
issued a proclamation for a special
election to be held April 2 to elect
United States senator. The primary
will be held March 49, Men men
toned as possible candidates are Jo-
seph E. Davies and Martin Lueck,
democrats, and Lieut.. Gov. Dithmar,
State Senator Plat Whitman, former
Gov. Francis E. McGovern and James
Thompson, La Crosse, republicans.
The break in the senatorial situa-
tion came Unexpectedly after Senator
Whitman called on Gov. Philip and
told him that the bill to give him ap-
pointiYe 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 a 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 a United States
senator, but the question of whether
the election should be held in the
spring or next November, was 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-
tion by vote of 80 to 10, with AS
semblymen J. Anderson, c. B. Carter,
+. c. Chapple, Theodore Engel, F.
Grass, P. V. Lawson, w. Z. Jordan,
J. J. Ruka, John Camper and c. H.
Saugen voting in the negative.
The legislatures action eliminates
as a senatorial possibility Congress
man Irvine L. Lenroot, Superior, the
man Gov. Phillip planned to name to
the seat, had his plan gone through.
Lenroot, now 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 arc openly advancing the cause
of Joseph E. Davies, said to carry the
federal administrations 0. K. There
was some talk on the Republican side
of Gov. Phillip, as the G.. 0. 2. 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-
-
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 a
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 a
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-
cia detection. Phillip announced his
intention of calling a special session
of the legislature to act on financial
measures and incidentally to put his
senatorial proposition up TO the law
makers. He stuck to his scheme in
the face of bitter opposition. News
papers that supported him in his two
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