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Show President After the Bucket Shops. Washington. President Roosevelt hns directed Herbert Knox Smith of tho bureau of corporations to Investigate Investi-gate tho mothods of stock trading, with n vlow to furnishing tho basis of possible futuro legislation regulating Buch practices. Tho difficulty is recognized rec-ognized of attempting fedoral regulation regula-tion for tho transfer of stocks which will opornto to curtail purely gambling contracts, and at tho sumo tlmo work no hlndrnnco to legitimate trnnsfers, nnd It Is announced to bo for tho pur-poso pur-poso of proceeding on sound principles princi-ples thnt tho Investigation Is being mado. President Hoosovelt has do! clared hlmsolf to bo decidedly In fa- , vor of eliminating stock gambling. |