The record-union., 1899-02-18

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BRAUNHARTS GAMBLING BILL.
S. B. 419, by Braunhart, amending
Sections $50, 331 and 337 of the Pena.
gambling, wasNtaken up and Ashe Of
fered an amendment striking out that
portion referring to pool-selling and
book-making, and prohibiting the same
except upon the race track or en-
closure, where the trial Of speed was
being conducted.
Braunhart protested against the
adoption of the amendment, submitting
that he had been in earnest when he
introduced the bill and had showed his
earnestness when he placed it on the
special urgency file so that it might
come to a vote
Ashe spoke to his amendment, saying
that while he had eschewed the race
track and its pleasures and had entered
politics, he still remembered his old
race-traek friends. He commended that
II the book makers and booksellers
were obliged to close down their busi-
ness and sell no pools the night before
the races. that there could be no fairs
and the people, he said, demanded fairs
Jones protested against the adoption
of the amendment.
Leavitt wanted every amendment Of
fered voted down, and the bill defeated.
He called attention to the fact that
millions of dollars were tied up in the
race tracks in the State.
Shortridge said he was opposed regu-
lating everything and everybody by
legislation. He thought constitutional
amendment ought to be adopted pro-
h;biting regulating business by legisla-
ton. He thought it was nobody's bust
ness when or where man bought a
pool or played poker. AS it was not
in order to move to strike out the en-
acting clause he proposed to vote
against verything which came up.
Bulla offered an amendment inserting
the word ''hokey -pokey," which is in
the present statute, and which through
inadvertance had been omitted from the
bill.
Cutter wanted Bulla to explain whad
was meant by hickey -pokey."
Bulla did not know, and neither did
Brauphart, but Dickinson said he
closely connected with keno, and as
that interesting game was in full blast
not far from the Capitol building, Cut
ter might visit it and get practical in
stead of theoretical knowledge of thf
game.
The amendment was lost.
Rowell offered an amendment limiting
the selling of pools and combining the
same to the race tracks.
Curtin said he thought as the Senate
had started out to regulate everything
and every body and make record, had
attempted to drive the newspapers and
legitimate ventures out of business, he
suggested that fitting close would be
to regulate the race track out of exist
ence. Rowell's amendment was lost.
Another amendment was offered to
limit the time Of racing in the several
counties to sixty days in the year in
stead of thirty, as proposed in the bill
Leavitt protested against the amend
ment, submitting that if racing was
bad it should be wiped out entirely. if
it was legitimate no restriction should
be placed upon it.
Eoyce said that even Satan could
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He favored the amendment.
Jones opposed the amendment on the
ground that more harm could be done
in sixty than in thirty days.
Wolfe. too, opposed the amendment
but did so on the ground that if races
were to be allowed only for sixty days
in the year in each, county. Eastern race
track men could not afford to bring
their strings of horses to this coast.
Braunhart offered an amendment tc
the amendment in the form of COM
promise, making the time fortyfive in
stead of sixty days. Lost. The amend
ment, fixing sixty days as the limit
for racing in each county was lost by
vote of 10 to II. Pending further
discussion the hour of II m. arrived and
the Senate was at recess to attend the
joint ballot in the Assembly chamber
and further consideration of the bill
went over until Monday next.