The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-09
TRACK OF CIRCULATION.
Scanda1ous Scenes Attend
the Fight Against Re-
peal of the Race
Bills.
DELIBERATE DELAYS
Hutchinson Denounces the Course
Of Thompson's Tame Com
mittee.
speciol to The Jersev cYtv Ne,cs.

who voted for the race track bills, mas
much as he was paid his price yesterday.
According to the resolution previously
adopted, the contested election case OF
Hoffman VS.. Riddle, of Atlantic County
was taken up, and Senator DAILY
read the report of the majority. and Mr..
Stokes read the minority report which
| claimed a majority for Hoffman of 29T.
The reports were printed and voluminous,
occupying considerable time in the
reading.
Mr.. Daily moved the adoption of the
majority report VIII ich was for unseating
Hoffman. Mr.. Stokes moved as a substi-
tute, the adoption Of the minority report
and on the call of the yeas and nays Mr.
Hoffman was retained in his scat by a
vote of IL TO 8. Messrs. Barker, DAILY n
Miller voting in the negative, Mr.. HON.
man not voting at all.
Mr. Hoffman thanked the Senators for
the stand they had taken in his case and
hoped III the two succeeding wears of his
Senatorial career they would not be dis
appointed.
MI. Marsh, while explaining his vote
in favor of Hoffman, said thai the posi-
tion of the Democratic party in the Stuhr
Mcdonald contest in 1890, was That no
man should be upseated unless 1t was
shown that his contestant had a prepon-
derance of the votes cast. Believing thai
this was not shown in the present case ne
voted as he did,
MERE FARCE.
II ever there was a farce enacted any
where, the hearing, which the House
committee on Municipal Corporations
gave on the race track repealers yester-
day afternoon in the Assembly Chamber,
was one. Every person who has watched
the course of affairs here knew that
today's hearing was given simply Co
delay action on the bills until 1J was too
late for the anti-race people to accomplish
any thing; but few were prepared for the
transparent exhibition which the com
mittee allowed itself to make.
The galleries and Hobbies were crowded
as much as they were on Tuesday, and
the race track people were we'll repre-
scented, judging by the applause which
| greeted their champion. The hearing
was announced to take place at half-pasJ
two, but il was ten minutes to three
when Samuel KaIisch, the cunning crim-
| inal lawyer of Essex, took the floor to adj
| dress the COMMITTEES. His arguments
were the most ridiculous a man of ordin-
airy common sense ever attempted to ad-
vance. The lottery laws. upon which he
based his argument, have been abolished
since 1897.
KALIscH's CHATTER.
MI. Kalisch said he represented the
Brooklyn Jockey Club and first showed
that home racing for stakes and prizes
was sanctioned by law in this State many
years ago. 1Ahe first prohlbitory act was
passed in 1911. and in 1885 it was abro-
gated and racing was again established
BY law. Mr.. Kalisch then turned his at
tention to lotteries. which were authorized
bv law In order to enable churches to
raise money. He read a list of such laws,
not one of which was passed later than
1871.
He commended that the law which per-
mitted horse racing at State or county
fairs authorized a certain form of gam
bling, and during the past thirty
years not o Clergyman or moraIist
had claimed that such rae
ing was harmful. The speaker
then declared that the trustees of the in
stitutions which had been benefited by
these lotteries, and the men who voted
| for the laws which authorized the loter-
les. were all as prominent and moral as
the ministers who stood in the Chamber
| Yesterday, and appealed, as they said,
ssfor their homes and their hresideS, Il
such nonsense"
.'Racing can be regulated" the speaker
continued, land with proper regulations,
the tracks operated under the Parker
laws. will cause no more harm than rae
ing for purses at State fairs. When the
fight for the liquor license was on a few
years ago, a lot OF sincere people opposed
the passage of the measures and
seemed to think that every
LIQUOR man was in league with the
devil. These people finally recog-
nized that liquor selling was a necessary
| evil. The racing bills are local option
measures. Racing cannot be conducted
in a community without the consent OF
| the municipal authorities. l Know moth
| ing OF the evils depicted by the people
| who were here yesterday. | read in the
newspapers how this or that young mau
has been ruined by horse racing. We are
| all prone to gambling and no legislation
can eradicate viciousness from the human
breast.
sit is easy to talk Of the %debauchin0 in
fuences and the moral peril OF horse rae
ing and pool selling, but | believe there is
| SUFFICIENT protection to morals in the pro-
| visions of the Parker bills"
MIR, Kalish then went on to tell how
safe it was to place the power of licensing
the tracks in the hands of the municipal
| authorities. They. of course, were all
good men n would only act under the
| bills for the interests of their community.
GIVE THEM A TRIAL.
.If the laws prove as demorallzing as
some enormously contend, another Legis-
Iarure can wipe them out. L am satisfied
that the consequences OF the laws will
not be so Injurious as many try to make
| them appear. You can murder a man In
q good cause, but thai is no defense. You
can say that race track bills are infam-
Gus, but that is no argument"
AT this point, Chairman DAILY OF the
committee interrupted Mr.. Kallsch n
said that The hour for the reassembling OF
the House was at hand. and owing to the
pressure of business before the House, the
committee would have to adjourn the
hearing.
Ex-Judge William Rankin, who has
been here all the session in the interest OF
the race track bills. then asked il the
Chairman would give another hearing
today aud was told that it would. Every
one laughed at this, and the committee
climbed down from their high perches
and the hearing was over for the day.
GALLANT FIGHT.
The anti-race track men did not pro-
pose to have the matter disposed Of in
any such manner: SO, when the AFTERNOON
session OF. the House opened, Mr.. Hutch
tuson offered a resolution that the COM
mittee be relieved from further consider
alton of the ~iepealers. The Speaker
ruled that under rule adopted by the
House early in the session, twenty-four
hours notice must be given OF q motion
to relieve a committee Of the considera-
ton OF a bill.
Mi. THOMPSON arose, and with a great
show of pious Indignation, said that he