Contested Election Case John C. Schafer V. Thaddeus F. Wasielewski from the 4th Congressional District of Wisconsin. Hearings....1943 - 37 pages |
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ABERNETHY advertisement affect the minds affected or tended amount appointment ascertained attorney Bill board of canvassers BUCKLEY candidate certified statements CHAIRMAN chapter 12 Citizens closing brief Committee of Wisconsin conclusive presumption Congress Club Congressman contributions corporation Corrupt Practices Act counsel court says deliberately engaging determine District of Wisconsin election void electorate was defeated Evans evidence fact Federal Fifth District Gedlen gentlemen HANCOCK HEIDINGER insubstantial issue lend-lease match containers member thereof Milwaukee County Milwaukee Wis mittee Monroe Doctrine MULLEN newspaper notice of contest November November 24 number of votes October 24 ouster paid Pelishek personal campaign committee political purposes proceeding provides record registered personal campaign SALTZSTEIN says he voted Schafer secretary Stanley Nastal statement filed Supreme Court sworn statement tended to affect testified testimony Thaddeus F tion United Labor Committee Vernon E vicious methods violated any provision voters Wasielew Wasielewski for Congress waukee
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Page 26 - ... given to each, distinguishing the several districts and counties in which they were given; they shall certify such statements to be correct, and subscribe their names thereto, and they shall thereupon determine what persons have been, by the greatest number of votes, duly elected to such offices, or either of them, and shall endorse and subscribe on such statements a certificate of their determination, and deliver them to the secretary of state.
Page 8 - ... 2. If such proceeding has been brought to investigate the right of a candidate for member of the state senate or state assembly or for senator or representative in congress, and the court shall find that such candidate or any member of his personal campaign committee has violated any provision of this act, in the conduct of the campaign for nomination or election, the court shall draw its findings to such effect and shall forthwith, without final adjudication, certify...
Page 8 - If the court shall find that the candidate whose right to any office is being investigated, or his personal campaign committee or any member thereof has violated any provision of this chapter, in the conduct of the campaign for nomination or election . . judgment shall be entered declaring void the election of such candidate to the office for which he was a candidate, and ousting and excluding him from such office and declaring the office vacant.
Page 8 - ... in the conduct of the campaign for nomination or election, and if such candidate is not one mentioned in subsection (2) hereof, judgment shall be entered declaring void the election of such candidate to the office for which he was a candidate, and ousting and excluding him from such office and declaring the office vacant. The vacancy thus created shall be filled in the manner provided by law, but no person found to have violated any provision of this chapter shall be eligible to fill any office...
Page 25 - ... attorney general of the state, or to the governor of the state, for leave to bring a special proceeding to investigate and determine whether or not there has been such violation by such candidate or by such committee or member thereof, and for appointment of special counsel to conduct such proceeding in behalf of the state. "(2) If it shall appear from such petition or otherwise that such candidate, committee or member thereof has violated any provision of this...
Page 20 - President, and Vice President of the United States, or any constitutional amendment or measures to be voted on by the people, or which through paid advertisements advocates or opposes any governmental action, measure, or policy, shall before making any expenditures or receiving contributions for such purposes, file a verified statement giving its name, the name and address of each of its officers, and in general terms the nature of its organization, the sources of its income and the purposes for...
Page 8 - ... the court shall forthwith certify its findings to the secretary of state to be by him transmitted to the presiding officer of the body in question.
Page 31 - ... officer of such candidate a transcript of such supplemental judgment. Such candidate shall not thereafter succeed to the office if his term shall not yet have begun, and the office shall become vacant if his term shall have begun and it shall be filled in the manner provided by law. (2) If any person shall, in a criminal action, be adjudged guilty of any violation of this chapter, committed while he was a member of the personal campaign committee of the successful candidate for any such office,...
Page 5 - ... (2) After the primary, no candidate for election to the United States senate shall make any disbursement in behalf of his candidacy, except contributions to his party committees, for his own actual necessary personal traveling expenses, and for postage, telephone and telegraph expenses, and for payments which he may make to the state pursuant to law.