Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-02-05
WILCOX OUSTED:
new ELECTION
Senate Also Refuse Seat in Forty
Third District to Sullivan,
Who Contested.
BUDGET IS SUBMITTED

Governor Sends Message to SoIons
Authorizing Needs Of State De-
partments for Next Two Years
Safety Bond Gets More Time.
St. Pau1.-The Senate solved the
George H. Sullivan-W. w. Wilcox
election contest by ousting Wilcox,
refusing to seat Sullivan and demand
ing that the voters Of Washington
county decide the issue at a special
election.
The resolution, in a measure q COM
promise, was finally adopted by a
unanimous vote after the senators,
tired and hungry, had listened to m ore
than six hours of debate.
Preceding it's adoption were two
test votes, which showed the close
ness of the contest One vote on the
adoption Of the minority report was
q tie, 81 to 81, while the other stood
735 to 81 in favor of an amendment
to the majority report proposing tho
special election plan.
Ends Bitter Fight.
The battle was one of the most BIT
ter and hard fought in the history of
the Senate. Charges of wire-pulling,
undue influence and intimidation made
by Senator -Sageng, who led the fight
for Wilcox. aroused the ire of his COL
leagues and resulted in several spir-
tied parliamentary passages at arms
Sageng finally explained that he did
not mean to accuse the Sullivan sup.
porters In the Senate, but only out
side interests. Sageng, on the other
hand, was pilloried as the man who,
when the corrupt practices act was
passed by the special session in 1912,
complained because it was not string.
ent enough, and now sought to put
a lenient construction upon the law.
While the resolution unseating Will
cox carried a. morsel of comfort to
the Wilcox people, in that it declared
that Sullivan, as we'll as Wilcox, had
not received a majority of the votes
and asked the Governor to call q spe-
cial election, it was emphatic in its
vindication Of the. corrupt practices
act and its reputation of the elec-
tion methods employed by Wilcox and
, his supporters.
Safety Bond Gets More Time.
The state Senate has given the Pub
lie Safety commission a breathing
spell Of 10 days instead of so days
asked for by Senator F. H. Peterson,
OF Moorhead.
Senator Peterson had introduced two
resolutions, one asking the continuance
for 60 days Of all commission orders
relating to. the liquor traffic, and the
other calling for the continuance of
orders establishing the home guard
and motor corps.
; The commission sometime ago
threatened, to revoke all of it's orders
on February 4 unless the Legislature
had acted before that time. -.
When the Peterson resolutions were
introduced the Safety commission and
it's acts became the outstanding issues
In the legislature. Friends and foes
alike began lining up in battle array.
The state senate, however, comprom.
Used by giving the commission lee.
way Of 1O%days.i That means that the
: commission will not revoke it's orders
as anticipated. IN the meantime the
legislature will come to some decision
as to whether the commission should
be continued or whether all of its
orders should be revoked. 80
Governor Submits Budget.
Governor Burnquist- has sent to the
legislature the budget of state depart
ments for the next two years. with a
=, ing increases in the cost of necessi
ties of life and also of supplies, travel
ing and other items for which state
funds are provided.
A legislative investigation of sala
ries paid state officials and employees
and appropriations to carry on new
state building projects, notably at the
university, partly to provide employ
ment for returning soldiers, are among
outstanding recommendations. The
Governor declares himself in favor OF
provision for payment of school aid
in full to July 81, 1918, the aid then
to be administered by state educa
tional board, creation Of which is
urged in his earlier message to the
Legislature.
$31,398,084 Is Asked.
The. budget is recommended by the
Governor in amounts requested by va
rious departments, with a few excep
lions. The requests of state depart
ments for funds for the next two
years, as previously made public, to-
tailed $31,398,084, a net increase OF
$11,075,250, or more than 80 IS per cent
/. over the appropriations for the pres
ent biennium.
The Governor urges that budget es
Will sift Indian Charges.
st. Paul Charges Of gross waste
i and ineficiency in the bureau of In