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Show BILL BARRING I BETS ON RACES I PASSESSENdTE I Thornley's Measure Provides D That Those Who Wager, H and Also Stakeholder, Bfl , Guilty of Felony. HEATED DEBATE H PRECEDES VOTING H House, After Hearing Pro ancf H Con Arguments From Citi- D zens of Farmington, H Refers Bill. B Twenty -second Day in lhe Senate, H Resolution, ratifying tho pro. B posed incomo tax amendment is 9 Thornlcy antl-poo! Boiling bill is BH pasiod without amendment. IHI Bill la prepared which gives to gfl citleB of the first and Hecond class BH Mi Initiative, thc referendum, and BH tho recall. RH Measure will be introduced today HH to make hotol3 in the state moro spiitaxy aud comfortable. HH Action on resolution ratifying HH proposed, amendment providing for Hfl tho direct election of tho United IHI States senators Is postponed for HH BETTING on races at pool rooms BH and at race tracks will bo for- StH bidden at once if tho- house TOO! passes the Thornlcy anti-pool Jaftl selling bill which waB yesterday passed Rfafi by the Ecnate by a vole of 35 to 3. ltS Tho bill provides that anyono wbo flfl makes a wagor or acts as stakeholder for a bet made on any contest of speed, jtf fl skill or endurance is guilty of a felony. Ik fl Tho bill was passed by tho senate fl after a sharp dobato and after Bovoral H attempts to amend it had failed. Sen If 3 ator J. R. 30dghoill of Juab worlcod t i 3 hard to securo tho incorporation of an j W amendment which would permit wagers j fl to bo mado within an iuciosurc at a tiH race track or fair grounds at the timo 3 fl and place tho race is being hold. Tho j 1 fl amendment was voted down. Senator J I fl Mont Ferry of Salt Lake asked that 1 1 S tho bill go to thc judiciary committee, j j fl but this proposal was also voted down. H Plaudits for Champion. ijUj Pervent speeches for the passage of RaH tho bill wero made by Senator L. M. ?9BI Olson of Sanpete and Senator -f. "ft". $fB Thornlor of Davis. A large number of 96 women from Davis county aud several Hfl womon from Salt Lake occupied the g fl gallery of thc senate chamber aud ap ft IK plauiled vigorously whou Senator Olson f K concluded his address. g ; fl Thc bill had been advanced on the 8 IB calendar so as to come ahead of the Bfl Huuson bauking bills which wore not t H reached by the senate yesterday. Sen- S mm ator Edghcill, who voted against tho S H bill, charged that the monsurc was be- iffi ing "railroaded" through tho senate SWH aud said ho was not afraid to tell hi ioHB constituents why he voted against the mH Senator Uouucr X. Smith, who voted sBflj for the bill, called attention to tho fact IfjH that tho measure provided a penalty for igfl violation of thc bill that was absurd in 59H its provisions. Ho said that it would SH be practically impossible to set a jury jffll of hard-headed men to voto to eond !sH man to tho state prison for making a I jftflj Ferry Wants Option. j Wj Senator TV". .Mont Ferry called alien- R B tlon tu the fact that thero was at proa- 5 fHI cnt ample law on the stalutn boolu to ff permit any municipality to prohibit race- S lH track and pool-room betting If It eo de- K fl sired. He called attention to tho fart S H that Salt Lako City had eliminated rac- ft HH Ing am pool Helling and declared that flfl Farmington or any other city which S' HH wlehed to prohibit rnce-traek bettlny w HD could do ho. Ho suggcEtcd that tho same n HH right in this regard be also extended to 9 HDl counties, in order that counties might dc- ( I flB oldo for themselves whether or not thoy j HH wished horse races and pool rooms, j After all amendments had been dr- I flB fcated roll was called on the final pa-s- I flu ago of thc measure with" this moult: I MB A yea Booth. Cotlmll, KcJcrsley. FcrP'. KgW Funk, Hanson, Ivcrson, Lunt. Olson. 9 WSm Rldeout. Smith. ThornIy. Wlstit. Wl!- fHH llamw and Prcaldent Gardner 15. khBI Xoe8 Cnilg, Edghelll, Kelly S. ffjrlW Farmington Protests. OfiH Several FiirmlnRton residents appeared eHID beforo tho bouso judiciary commniitUe InHfl ycfltcrday forenoon in connection with ho gBflfl Mabcy antl-poolselllni: bill or In conncc- SflH tlon with atatements heretofore fnade fflWH before that committee. HflfBfl Robert WlUon. prosidont of thc Farm- IHI Ington Commorclnl club: TI. S. DayneJ. r r mayor of Farmington. and E. A. Coti- J ''M. rell, a member of tho Farmington cit- i ' p . (Continued on Pftfo Four) j III-P00L10I BILL PUSSES UPPER HOUSE (Continued from Pago Ono.) council, appearod before the committee to volco their ro.Huntment of statements made lust week by riyrum Stewart and Mr. Wilcox to tho effect that a train of Immorality hud followed In the wake of the raoes and that, In brief, tho young people of Davis county, and of Farming-ton Farming-ton particularly, had been reduced to a grievous state of evil on account of tho race track at Lagoon. Messrs. Wilson, Duynr.a and Cottroll said ihev came boforo tho committee in ciarncst protest against, such a slander upon the people of Farmlngton. They denied In every Instance and particular that the young men and young women of Farmlngton were Immoral and declared that, on the contrary, those young people were Just ae moral as any that woro to bo found. , Tho delegation resented In unmlstak-ablo unmlstak-ablo terms tho Imputation publlshod In some newspapers that a veritable wave of debauchery came as an attendant upon race meetings and that the young men and women of Farmlngton had fallen victims thereof. The delegates declared that thev were not before the commit-too commit-too to state whether they wanted gambling gam-bling or not. They wore thorn. they said, to uphold the fair name of tho people peo-ple of their community against slanderous slander-ous statements. Moreover, the delegation resented tho statement mado laat week that Simon Bamberger, president of the Salt Lako & Ogdon railroad, and owner of Lagoon, where tho Lagoon race track Is situated, controlled the elections at Farmlngton. They said there were but few employcos of Senator Ramberger'n enterprises at Farmlngton and their Influence In olec-, tlons was not a. material fjictor. Mavor Daynes said that Farmlngton benefited to tho extent of about S'JBOO annuallv from the Lagoon race track and that the city received about SG00 from saloon sa-loon licenses. In all his dealings with race-track people, said Mr. Daynes, he had found them In overy way honest. Other residents of Farmlngton gave like testimony. Women Favor Bill. A delegation of women from Farming-ton Farming-ton came to support tho bill. They included in-cluded Mrs. Annie Tanner, Mrs. J. H. Robinson. Mrs. S. C. Knowlton. Mrs. Mary Wilcox. Mr?. Louis Cottrell. Mrs. Sadlo Clark, Mrs. Mary Chrlstenscn, Mrs. Leone Stewart, Mrs. Dora Robinson. Mrs. Rose Knowlton and Mrs Cecilia Steed. Another delegation of women came from Bountiful. It consisted of Mrs. Effle P. Eidredge nnd Mrs. Lucy F. St.ringham. A petition wan later presented In the house signed bv James A- Eldredgo and several other Bountiful residents urging tho passage of the Mabey hill. When the senate bill on the subject, Thornlcy's S. B. No. 57, reached tho house. It was referred to tho Judiciary committee, to be considered along with the Mabey bill. Tho houso judiciary committee com-mittee now has the Mabey bill, the Thornloy bill, which, before U was amended by the senate, was Identical with the Mabey bill, and the Krlebcl bill. H. B. No. CS The latter Is a stringent measure against poolrooms but permits betting at race tracks at tho time of tho race. |
