The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-03

act In amendment or chapter Sn OF the
Public Laws entitled. AN act granting
authority 10 the city OF Providence TO ap-
propriate annually TO the Rhode Island
hospital the sum OF 5000 Passed at the
January session A. D.. 1890. Committee on
judiciary
Also an act authorizing the city OF
Providence to appropriate and pay an
nually TO the Providence Lying-in hospital
OF said Providence such sums OF money as
the city council OF said city may deem ex-
pedient and desirable Committee on ju-
dietary
Also an act authorizing the board OF fire
commissioners OF the city OF Providence
10 inspect or cause 10 be inspected places
In said city whore dangerous substances
arc manufactured. stored, kept, sold or
used Committee on judiciary.
Also an act In amendment OF an act en-
Titled. AN act TO incorporate the Coven-
try Telephone Company" Committee on
corporations.
Also an act I'm amendment Of and addi-
ton TO an act entitled, AN act to incor-
porate the Sea View Railroad company"
Passed at the May session A. D.. 1887 and
OF the several acts in amendment of and
In addition thereto. Committee on cor
porations.
Mr.. Thurston then moved that tho sen
ate proceed with the election OF Sam II.
Bullock as police commissioner OF the
city OF Providence.
Mr.. Banigan said that the senate had
seen n wonderful example OF its power
Of the press A political Moses. had APP
peared In Rhode Island
we find that tho state house topics
are as unerring as the laws of old, which
We're written on stone tablets" he said
Then he Hkened various people to char
acters of anoent history.
There Is In this community today a
gambling syndicate. Mr.. President.
Strange as II may seem the better element
has been lulled into quiet and this gam
bling syndicate fiourishes."
The speaker then read extracts from a
paper published In a nearby city and snr-
castically remarked that tho Millennium
must be near.
GAMBLING PERMITTED.
The city Of Providence. the speaker al
legged was gambling hell, where crime
and vice OF every description were fos-
tered by the police commission OF the
city. He said: I'VE must wait until the
graft Ia withdrawn from the honest press
before we are affirmed OF the fact that
these evils exist
The city OF Providence" he continued,
is the centre OF the gambling interests
OF all New England"
for eight years a horse pool room had
existed In the town OF Thornton and that
no effort had been made 10 suppress It
| and that the "virtuous press Of the city
OF Providence had said otsns alaant Il
until another similar es ,ablishmenf had
been opened at Waterford
He then said that the one at Waterford
had, after some trouble, been closed up.
/ but that the one at Thornton was not
/ wholly closed at the present time
/ He said that the ticker was still there
and that the news from the race track
was received over the wire there and tele-
phoned TO the headquarters OF the Turf
| Commission company IN the Fletcher
building on Eddy street
EASY TO PLACE BETS.
He said that bets could be placed here
/ AZ any time and that the latest news OF
the races could be had by calling up the
Turf Commission company's telegraph
station
lie read an extract from the Boston
Traveller 20 show that Providence was
the headquarters OF the gamblers OF New
England
And all this has existed under the po-
lice commission OF Providence There
Il also a poker game right on West
minister street" the speaker continued.
lie alleged that the game. which was
/ conducted In the Burgess block netted
the proprietors from $500 10 5000.
lie said that the commission had sent
word 30 the Genuemen's club that they
! we're coming and consequently nothing
had been found but lot OF tables
around which members OF the "cfib''
had been found playing whist
what has gentlemen's club 10 do
with whist" asked Senator Banigan "a
he looked over the senate. 1T N an old
| maids game a. hest"
These matters have been exposed. Mr.
President by papers outside of ths ststa