The Superior Times

SENATE KILLS PAPER BILL.

By Vote of Eighteen to Fourteen, Publication Measure Dies Violent Death-No Wisconsin Exhibit for Portland Exposition.

[Special Correspondence]

Madison, Wis., March 22. Now that adjournment of the legislature is being talked of seriously among the solons all eyes are turned upon Lieut. Gov. Davidson as the successor to Gov. La Follette, who will, as soon as the session is over, assume his duties as United States senator from Wisconsin. At present Mr. Davidson has little to say regarding his induction into the office vacated by Mr. La Follette, but is paying close attention to his duties as presiding officer of the senate. Hardly had Gov. La Follette's boom for the United States senatorship been launched when the friends of the Lieutenant Governor were predicting great things for their leader. No man of prominence today can lay claim to the adjective self-made by a better right than that of James O. Davidson. Davidson arrived here from Norway at the age of 18, friendless, penniless and in a strange land and 32 years of time finds him at the head of a great commonwealth. In 1896 he was named for the assembly from Crawford county, and his work in the legislature resulted in his election to the position of state treasurer in 1898 and again in 1902 came his nomination for Lieutenant governor. He was elected to this office the same year and re-elected at the election last fall. As Davidson has never pushed himself to the front it is said on the occasions of his nomination for the assembly and for the position of treasurer, both honors were forced upon him, and at the time last year's election took place he was not present, being ill and weary over the struggle necessary to get his measures through the legislature the governor asked Davidson to accept a place upon the regular ticket. The request could not be refused, and now the fortunes of politics have placed the lieutenant governor in the most coveted office in the state.