Show well done iho house when tho came placed itself in record with public sentiment and passed the mabey bill against horse rice gambling the amendment recommended by a majority of the judiciary committee which was intended to render the bill inoperative met with the fate it deserved the legislators have heard alio voice of the people on tins question but the victory is not yet won tho bill passed by the senate pro vides a penalty of a fine not to ex aeed and not to exceed ano years while the house bill makes the penalty 2000 and one par before the measure can become law this difference must be compromised and we presume the rambling interests will do all in their power to keep the house and senate from reaching an agreement public is so strong against horse race gambling that no legislator will caie to come out openly in opposition to either of the bills now passed but the danger is that dilatory tactics will be employed as long as and then that some amendment with a hidden purpose will be proposed the friends of alie mabey thornley measure must be prepared for all linda af pf underhand tactics the gamblers and their supporters aie in a hopeless minority they daro not come out in the open but they arc nevertheless fighting from their hiding places on the outcome will the answer to the question whither the people or the gamblers are to rula in utah as the liquor interests have sometimes done in the past deseret news |