Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-01-14 | Page 5 | Eliminate Betting

ELIMINATE BETTING district attorney jerome begins campaign new now york jan IS district attorney jerome li u started a campaign to eli eliminate minatA race betting in thia this tate state he will go to albany tomorrow and ask the legislature to wipe ou certain sections of tho percy gray law in one e bill he seeks to deliver a death blow to that section which says that the only penalty for bookmaking at the track shall be recovery of tho the bet by a civil suit alt in another bill ho he proposes to amend tho the penal code so as to make bookkeeping and the track or any other place a m misdemeanor I 1 a do me a nor instead of a felony the pun punishment ishmen t to be no more than one years imprisonment in ja the penitentiary or a fine of or both relating to these obese two bills the district attorney has a bill to provide for thy the income which agricultural societies throughout the state receive through the provision of the percy gray law instead og gotting sot ting aper a per cent of tho receipts of the racing associations he provides that a certain fixed sum not designated in tho bill as drawn up shall bo be appointed from the state treasury for agricultural purposes purposed pur