Show JOHNSONS cOt BILL BILLS O U S JOHNSONS JOHNSONS anti ant gambling bill bl Is a amesur aU measure that contains some suggestions aleu to check games of chance throughout the te th state of Utah and and any law Ia of this kind should receive hearty he encouragement em nt and ad support support Briefly the he bill bU provides that tat the te title tte to money or property of value does not pass when it 1 Is won or lost through trough gam gambling hung bUng The he loser may bring brig suit at once or his hs wife his big guardian gardian or o his children for him may bring suit and recover the lull Jis rl amount of the losses lo ses In I the event that money is lost lot in a a poker game gme every ever individual taking part In the te game gme is held re responsible responsible e That is i if four men men play poker and a d one loses lose a a considerable co amount he may institute an ac action acton action tion ton against any or all l of bf the other oter three and d force them the to repay the full ful sum bum To the amount of the judgment judg nt the court costs and d a reasonable attorneys I fee must be added There Thero Is a provision In the bill bl which renders It impossible impossIble fop tor fo a participant in fn the he game gae to decline to testify on the ground that he might mIght thereby incriminate incrImInate mate himself The section which does away with wih this exemption provides that no such suck testimony shall be used In a criminal proceeding against the witness A and B may testify against C In inan an action acton brought against D without any possibility that they will wi be bec called c on to defend criminal actions for tor Violating the laws aws against gambling Of Or course the Johnson bill bUl will wl not prevent alt all gambling No law has ha ever been devised that could bring about abo t this sired result res l The measure will wi have the effect however of making gamblers gambler much more mor careful They will not admit to their places and to their games men who cannot afford aford to lose los money Thus what Is Ia 1 known as the dinner bucket brigade the poor laborer and me mechanic mechanic mechanic with a lust for gambling will viiI wl be protected against themselves So too with witt every ever other othir individual whose losses are greater than he can cn stand The gamblers wm doubtless enter a protest against agIns a measure which Is so clearly cleary calculated calculate to cripple their industry but the gentlemen of the green geen cloth are arc entitled to mighty little consideration from the legislature legis ture or from any anybody anybody anybody body else cise They toll toil tol not neither do they spin any anything thing except roulette wheels and they should be stripped of some of their gains |