The record-union., 1899-12-12
AFTER The BOOKSELLERS.
A NEW ORDINANCE WILL BE
PREPARED.
City Trustees Kent, Mckay and
Bentley Lead in the
Assault.

! forward to. I'VE wanted a decision il
! the poolroom CASE said Kent, land we
! have it, and since the old ordinanca
would not stand the strain, 1 think we'd
better take Judge Harris advice and
pass a law to fit the case We have a
| Corporation Counsel who think can
Here Kent paused for the right
word, and Devine cut in with: 'Can
draw up an ordinance you can't drive
| a four horse team through
That's it," said Kent, land now
| move that the Corporation Counsel be
| instructed to draw up an ordinance pro-
| hibiting any person from conducting a
poolroom in the city of Sacramento
the whole city. mind you from the
river bank to Thirty-filst street. and
from the south side of the Y-street
levee to the other side of B street.
Lets see," continued Kent, IF we
cant build an ordinance that will hold
water We haven't passed anything in
four or six years that hasn't been
picked to pieces by the courts. Let us
have an ordinance that will prohibit
po0lsalling and the formation of polsti-
cal trusts, for it is these men who put
aside a fund for rotten political pur-
poses-to get into Office the men they
want"
Then Kent subsidized and Paine took
an inning. He said the motion looked
like a slap at the State Fir. He, fof
enc, believed in se6eing the Fair go on
and prosper, and as he was somewhat
interested in horses, he did not want
to see racing stopped at the track.
Kent is also interested in horses. and
said so, but, he continued, saying that
there was no longer fair racing, such
as was seen twenty years ago. It was
the men who sold the pools who had
the sponge put to a horses nose before
it was led out for the race, or who put
soothing syrup into it's food, so that
it would cut no figure in a race. Every
thing, he said, is cooked before the
start, and many times the sponge is
applied to the nostrils of a two-heat
winner, and the pool seller does The
rest.
1t was such work as that by pool
| sellers, Kent said, that had killed rae
ling and had caused the attendance at
the Fair to fall off, and if they were
plueked out the people would again
of seeing fair, square racing. Such an
ordinance as he proposed hav-
ing drawn would be the msans
of giving the city the best State
Fair it ever had. And this ordinance
he said, will reach out further 1t
will take in the keno joints and other
gambling places, and the city will i'm
prove in morals
Tebbets said there was no need of
such a furry. and no demand for any
such ordinance as had been suggest d
There is nothing in it, he said, except
quarrel between one of the members
of the board and a pool seller. There
was no necessity for such action. When
citizens come with complaints then it
would be time enough to act.
Hundreds complain to me about it
every day said Mckay.
Bentley said that to say there was
no need of an ordinance such as that
suggested by Kent was nonsense. It
was want long felt, and if Tebbets
wanted public opinion on the matter
all he had to do was to go up or down
the street and inquire of the business
men. They would tell him how their
employees had been led to steal in order
to buy pools on the races-how
they had stolen from their parents
It never heard of it, said Tebbets.
WELL said Bentley, you can find
out easily. / know a young man who
only a. short time ago stole his mothers
jewelry to spend the money he got for
1T in the pool-rooms'
"Who is hep" inquired Tebbets.
ssT,Il withhold bjc ,oap,a fo,- bic foyo-
ily's sake said Bentley.
MIR. Bentley will privately give you
the information you want, Doctor"
said Mckay.
Continuing, Bentley said it was a.
crying shame that such places should
be allowed to exist Men who played
the pools, had absolutely no chance for
their lives. The booksellers, he said,
annually give up to. the Western Union
Telegraph Company 100000 for their
franchise to run wires to their places.
Tebbets said he knew they gave q
good round sum, but did not think it
was anything like that much.
They paid S101, 900 in eighteen
months" put in Kent
Continuing, Bentley said the evil eff
feet of the poolrooms was so well known
that it should not require discussion
IF you don't want to PASS the ordi
nance" he said, SAY SO. but don't
call it a case of personal spite of one
member of the board against a pool
seller"
Kent said it was not yesterday that
he had posed as the enemy of the
poolrooms. He promised the people of
his ward before election to do all in
his power to stamp out the evil, and
the pool people knew just where he
stood and had put up a candidate who
might or who might not have stood with
them. He told the people that he would
fight the booksellers, and he proposed
to do it as long as ne was on the
board
And I'll stay with you for the two
weeks 1 have to remain" said Nc
Kay.
Devine called attention to the fact
that the motion was merely to have the
ordinance drawn, and not to pass it,
and the oratory subsidized.
Kent's motion was carried, Paine and
Tebbets voting no.
CHERUBS DENY.