Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-06


of the substitute for Senator Taylor's
gambling bill. This latter was a copy
of the bill which Mr.. Cubtlson intro
duced in the House, and which was af
forwards passed. The senate's substi
tute reads as follows: Every person
who shall, either directly or indirectly,
bet any money or property at any COM
mon gaming house, or at any place to
which persons are accustomed to re-
sort for gambling purposes, or at any
place kept for the purpose of being u.s.
ed as place for gambling, whether
such betting De upon any game of skill
or chance, either with or without card
or dice, or by the use of any kind of de-
vice or continuance whatsoever for de-
termining chances, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and after conviction be
punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars or less than Ten dollars
or by Imprisonment in the county Jail
not less than 80 days or more than one
year, or both such fine and imprison-
ment IN the discretion of the COURT
DOODLE KILLED THE BILL.
KANSAS CITY, KAs., PEOPLE EXPECTED THE DE-
FEAT OF THE ANTI-GAMBLING MEASURE.
Tie killing of the anti gambling and
anti-pOol room bill in the senate was
not great surprise to the people of af
fairs in Kansas City, Kas. There have
been rumOrs of boodlng freely circulat-
ed in the city across the line ever since
the bill was introduced and so quickly
passed by the house. Tom Carey, part
ner of G. l.. Maltby, the gambler and
boOkmaker at the state line was In To-
peka all the early part of the week.
lie had a suit of rooms at the Copeland
where, assisted by we'll known politi-
Clans and lobbyists, he received sena-
tors and others of influence, it is said.
Carey was at his bookmaking establish
ment all day yesterday. and when it be-
came known that he had returned from
Topeka in an amiable frame of mind,
the apprehension of the friends of the
bill was increased. The gambling
houses at the state line were running
full blast last night, and the members
of the fraternity" were feeling jubi-
liant over the fate of the bill, as it is
taken to mean at least two more years
OF updisturbed activity for the tiger"
And whereas, said Kansas City Star,
in its issue of Monday, January IS, 1895
contained the following editorial upon
the fourth page thereof, to-wit:
GAMBLING IN KANSAS.
The populist senate in Kansas has
done shameful thing. For the past
10 days there has been open talk about
the corrupt use Of money i'll the Kansas
senate to defeat the misunderstanding
bill. Saturday the senate virtually &C
knowledged that there was truth in the
rumOrs by defeating the Cubbison bill
and passing weak, cowardly subst-
tute. The people of Kansas City should
understand this. A corrupt lobby has
influenced the senate, which is CON
trOlled by the party that boosted so
loudly Of reform. The hints which
of gamblers of Kansas City with the
populistS are strengthened by the &C
ton Of the populists in the only branch
of state recommendation they control.
There is but one thing for the lower
house of the Kansas legislature to do,
and that is to stand hFln. The househas
passed bill making gambling felony.
Such bill, if it shall become a law,
will break up the worst nest OF gam
blers in the Missouri valley. Nothing
less will do it. Any vote of compro-
misc will mean vote to gamblers ad-
vantage.
The lower house Of the Kansas legis,
lature IS composed of large repubIi-
can majority. The people look to that
majority to clear the state of the gam
bler'S den in the Kansas metropolis-a
den so nefaFio4s that public indigna-
tion will not let e4iSt IN Missouri. 1t
Will be no excuse to say that oonpro-
mise with the corrupt vote in the SEN
ate is the only wise course. The house
must stand by its first proposition; the
senate must be put on record again as
favOring gambling in Kansas. In few
days the senators who have laid them
selves open to the charge of corruption
will hear from their constituents.
They Will learn that Kansas does not
care to iegalize an evil which Missouri
has cast ont. Perhaps by that time
even money will not tempt them to go
back on the people. The house should
stand firm and give the senate chance
TO repent and flee from the wrath TO
come.
And Whereas. This senate. instead
of passing weak, cowardiy substitute
for Cubbison's house bill, in fact and
truth did exactly the reverse and sub
Elituted the Cubbison bill for the SEN
ate bits
And Whereas. House Bill No. /,
which makes the lottery business IA Gel
ony, and House Bill No. 2, which makes
keeping gambling houses a felony, and
House Bill No. 8, which makes the
in houses felony, have each,
and everyone, been bg this senate,
passed through the committee of the
whole and recommended for passage,
and have each been advanced as fast as
they could be reached in the order of
tbs BUSINESS: now, therefore, be it
Resolved, Ihat the sergeant-at arms
of the senate be instructed 10 remove
the reporter of the Kansas City Star
from this senate chamber, and that he
aud all other reporters for said paper be |
denied all privileges and courtesies OF
The senate Rntil such time as the per,
son who wrote the first two articles J
acknowledges that he mis-
understood the action of the senate