Show RAGES RACES IN UTAH RUN CROOKED AVERBACH AUERBACH YS URGING REPEAL Senate Senat Ready to Pass Redd Bill By Big Margin MORE NEW NEV ACTS Variety of Matters Touch Touch- Touched Touch cd ed cd On In Proposed New Laws Special Db SALT LAKE Feb By 17 17 By a vote of 15 IS to 2 the tho senate late lato yes yes- yes yesterday 1 pissed passed L ed on second reading the Redd nedd bill repealing the Utah racing law The measure went to the third reading rending calendar to come up for final passage by the son son- senate sen senate ate this afternoon Two senators were absent and not voting The two votes against passage of the repeal bill were cast Cost by Senators Knox Patterson and C It Hollingsworth The Tha latter explain explain- explained ed od that in the party convention In his town a plank for repeal of the racing law had been rejected twice and he ho took It as aa Instruction to him to vote no on the bill Ha lie did so Senator Patterson did not ex- ex explain ex explain plain his vote The committee on revenue and taxation reported the Redd bill fa- fa favorably fa favorably for tor passage and the com corn committee committee report was adopted by the senate Debate on the tho bill was as brief and conducted by two speak speak- speakers ers erB Senators Henry V W V Stable Stahle and Herbert S Auerbach CROOKED GAMBLING G S Senator Stahle opened debate dehate on the measure by declaring his bo- bo boI be belief I lief lIet that It Ir the matter of repeal of the racing law were submitted to referendum vote vole of the people It would be repealed by a 0 vote of 75 15 per cent of the people of the ate He lie declared that the rae rae- racing rac racing ing law was not sound morally financially or otherwise and Is detrimental to the community Ho He declared that it was ss nothing more or less Jess than crooked gam gam- gambling gam- gam gambling bling In which the public loses losel Th senator read from several veral publications In which experts on racing branded It as a business a conducted In a II manner which made It Impossible for the public to win Senator Stable Stahle said that ho had been mistaken two years ago In his estimate of how the law would work and now he wanted wanted to cor- cor correct correct cor correct the mistake Ha Ito urged that the repeal bill be passed Senator Auerbach branded the law as the most pernicious law ever placed on the statute books of the state of ot Utah The Tho senator declared that the tho thoraces races are crooked and that they were run crooked here OT OT A CHANCE CE lIe He declared that In gambling games men usually have n a a gam gam- gambling garn- garn gambling bling hung chance but In the races and andIn andin andIn In the race races as run here the play play- players players players andI I chance ers didn't havo have even II a a gambling Senator Auerbach said he le warn warn- warned warned ed against the tho evils that would come of ot racing two years earl ago and he felt that experience had bad proved proved proved ed that his warnings were timely He i-fe declared that invariably race meets brought subsequent and con consequent quent waves wave of et local crime and he declared that when the officers of the tho country In- In including In Including federal officers wanted anted anted to locate a criminal they looked to the tho place where here there was or had just been a race meet lie He saId the tho meets here hero had filled tilled Salt Lake City with the most undesirable ele- ele element ole ele element ment of or the underworld and had caused crime and misery DRUGSTORE IL Senator Auerbach charged that the races elsewhere and as run here were fixed by Jockeys and others Interested th through rough crooked decisions of Judges drugstore handicaps consisting of ot using dope on the horses and weight Continued on Pago iago Tso 1 T o I I I RAGES RACES IN UTAH CALLED CROOKED i Continued from froni fr lm Page One handicaps The senator ena or said that the tho drugstore handicaps had hadI been used In the race races roces here and that most of ot the dope used was wasI smuggled Into this thia state When the vote was called Sena Sena- Senator Sena- Sena Senator Senator tor E Id R It Callister was absent but Senator Benator Gardner announced that the absent member had author author- authorIzed authorized led him to vote aye oYO tor for him president ruled however that Mr Canisters Canister's vote could rould not be recorded In his absence H H hi Crouch chairman of the bouse house committee to Inv investIgate sUl ote charges chorges of oC all alleged ged crookedness against members of ot the racing commission was II a spectator In Inthe inthe Inthe the senate After ACter the session lie bo saId Mid that be he probably would call his bibs committee together today tor fr organization but would not start tatt tIle Inquiry be before ore next week DILL BY Representative Ella Bliss S Wool Wool- Wool ruff introduced a II bill In the houie hou yesterday providing tor for the tho crea cre- creation tion of a state board of ot Institutions designed to te have supervisIon over the tho methods of treatment and care of ot Inmates of sta-I sta state charitable penal and ond reformatory Institutions The bill provides for such uch a aboard aboard board loard as was wu outlined In the special spa spa- dab cial message to the legislature re- re recently re recently by Governor Dern recommending recommending mending a central board ot of super super- supervision supervision supervision vision for the states state's Institutions of oC thi this character The Tho message of the governor was based upon a report ot of a survey urvey of ot state made by Dr George L L Wallace noted eastern psychia psychia- psychiatrist trist The The Woodruff t bill provides that the tho board shall consist of ot the gov gO gov I attorney general superintendent ot of o public Instruction and secretary of ot the board of ot health as ex officio members and six citizens as regular members of the board three of ot these to be wom women n and one of them to be a trained psychiatrist The rho board III i ito Into to serve without pay Decle Introduced a bill to amend the present Juvenile ju court law v to provIde reasonable compensation tion for tor deputies probation ot- ot ot Instead of ot 4 a day for actual service as now O V provided ed nOU BOILER R INSPECTION McCullough Introduced a bill b designed to compel the tho state In- In IndUstrial In Industrial commission to employ a qualified Inspector of or steam boil boll boilers boilers ers and Ind specifying his duties The committee on education In- In Introduced introduced In Introduced a bill to prohibit heads ot of educational Institutions being m members of the state board ot of education and providing that not snore than three of or the sl six 11 members of ot the board boord shall be beof beof ot of the came political part party In the senate Senator Young In- In Introduced In Introduced a bill prescribing duties or of clerks of district school boards Amending the present law Totton Tolton Introduced a a- a abill bill In the house amending the present law relating to publication of ot legal lega notIceS s to require sheriffs to pub pub Halt notices of oC sheriff sales saleR In papers designated by the attorney I Senator Introduced D a abill abill bill providing for the appointment of a state historian to serve with with- without with with- without without out pay Senator Senator- Gardner Introduced II a serle of ot bills amending the util- util util utilities Its l law relating to filing tiling of t complaint relating to foreclosure ot of mechanics lien liens creating a state teachers teacher retirement com com- commission commission com commission mission providing for tor a bond hsue Is Issue I- I Isue sue of to erect a II build build- buildIng building building ing for the bureau of ot mines and anda anda a building for class elMs rooms room and auditorium at the tho University of It Utah to ho have vo the tho sto state te fu furnish rn Ish law books for the law library itt at atthe the U of ot U SPRUCE E AS STATE Introduced a bilt to prevent taxes paid under pro pro pro- I test teat to the state from being t turn od rJ cd ad into the tM general fund before I the payer has opportunity to test the tho validity o of the collection A bill Introduced by Marsden Mareden would make the Blue Spruce the state tree of ot Utah Peters introduced a bill pro pro- providing providing pro providing viding for tor the erection of u is school Cor or tho the minded feeble the school to be located In Box Elder count county The senate passed on reading a IJ bill by Peters rep repealing aan the law requiring the secretary ot of state to publish Information con con- concerning con concerning proposed constitutionAl amendments It also passed to the third reading calendar the rose lution of ot Senator Young for for- for II a constitutional amendment amendments to enable the legislature to make provision for tor tilling filling vacancies In Inthe Inthe Inthe the legislature Millers Miller's house bill raising the salaries of or s district attorneys was passed to the third reading calendar by a margin ot of one ono vote TWICE KILLED HILLED I Stino's Stino's bill relating to the regis regis- registration registration of ot absent voters was as past pasi-ed pasi ed to 10 third reading and Ashton'S house bouso bill authorizing duel cities to establish park pork Improvement db- db die dis districts was killed In the house bill pro pro- providing pro providing viding that voters who are lii III may vote by means ot of o absent voter ballots was WIlS killed reconsidered and killed again The bill failed fol on first vote vote- for tor lack laok ot of o a con constitutional majority but on the second ballot was killed l by mil mil- ma majority vote Senator bill hill assert Ing bed of oC Ing Utah's title to the the Color Colorado do river was taken up for tor float final passage but re referred re-referred re d to committee for tor correction to a proposed committee amendment |