People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-10
THE BUCKET SHOP BILL,
The House Votes to Abolish Bucket Shops
from the State.

The House Votes to Abolish Bucket Shops
from the State.
The house OF representatives has
passed the Benefel bucket shop bill, a
stringent measure calculated to aboD-
ish commission gambling agencies 10
Kansas. The bucket SHOP evil has
been growing at surprising rate 10
the past year or two, bat is likely to
come to a sudden end 10 this state by
the adoption Of the measure at present
before the legislature. There is very
little doubt that the bill will pass the
senate. The principal sections of the
bill are as follows:
Every person who shall buy, sell,
exchange, or in any other manner deal
IN grain, stocks, bonds, securities, pro.
visions, or any other commodities
whatever, upon telegraphic market
reports and quotations, it not then
beng the intention CT such person, IN
pursuance of such purchase, sale or
exchange, to receive Or deliver such
grain, stocks, securities, provisions,
or other commodities, and the said
person not then being in the posses
sion and control of such grain, stocks,
bonds, securities, provisions, or other
commodities, shall on conviction be
adjudged guilty of miSdemesnOr and
shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the county Jail not less than thirty
days nor more than six months and be
fined from 500 to $500.
Livery person Who shall set up, keep
or maintain place, commonly known
and called a bucket shop or board Of
trade where telegraphic market re-.
ports and quotations upon grain,
stocks, bonds, securities, provisions
and other commodities whatsoever
are received and made public by pIac.
ing such reports and quotations upon
blackbOards, or in anyaOther manner
made public, and where persons
resort, and are permitted to resort,
for the purpose of buying, selling,
exchanging or otherwise dealing in
grain, stUcks, bonds, securities, pro-
visions, or any other commodities
whatsoever, where such persons, 10
pursuance Of such purchase or sales, do
not then intend to receive or deliver
such grain, stocks, bonds, securities,
provisions, or other commodities,
and where such persons are not then
10 the possession and control Of such
grain, stocks, bonds, securities, prOvi-
sions, or other commodities, and as
provided in the preceding section
hereof, shall on conviction he adjudg.
ed guilty OF a felony, and shall be
punished by Imprisonment at hard
labor for term Of not less than one
year nor more than five years"
Section three provides penalty Of
from thirty days to six months in Jail
and fine of from 800 to $500 for any
person who rents building for buck
etshOp purposes,
"All places used for any OF the I'm.
lawful purposes mentioned in this act
are hereby declared to be nuisances,
and upon the judgment of a court
having Jurisdiction finding such place
to be a nuisance under this section,
the sheriff, his deputy, or under sher.
III, or any constable of the proper
county, shall be directed to shut up
and abate such places by taking DOS
session Of all property used in keeping
and maintaining such nuisance, and
such personal property so taken shall
be forthwith publicly destroyed by
such officer. The attorney general,
county attorney, or any citizen of the
county where such nuisance exists or
is kept and maintained, may main
tain an action in the name Of the
state to abate and perpetually enjoin
the same"