The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-02
RACEYRACE MEN DEFEATED
TEST VOTE SHOWS % VOTES ron
ANTI-BETTING BILLS.
Only n senators wiling 10 COms OF n
the Open Against mem-Am0dmml
10 Make the New Law Take EReot e
Once Instead Of % Sept. I IL AdSptSk

hLnAN HBAh - - eNFNNAN@ " -
anti-racetraok gambling bills scored .
victory in the Senate tonight when. Aftr
a debate that continued all day. they suo
ceeded in restoring to the form In which
il az introduced Senator Agnew's bin
amending the Penal Code making gambling
on racetracks a felony, The Senate Codes
Committee had amended this bill to taks
effect September I, instead Of Immediately.
By a vote OF 20 to rs the bill was restored
to its original form.
The vote tonight Is taken Il indicate
that unless something entirely unforeseon
happens between now and the day whea
the bills come up on the order Of final pas
sage they will DO passed The opposition
to the bills we're still insisting at mldnight
that something would happen and thaa
the twenty-siH necessary votes could nos
be mustered to pass the bIlls
The members Of the senats Codss Con-
mittee reversed themselves in = most signal
fashion Senator Wemple was tbs only
Republican member Of the oonmittst
to vote to restors the bill to its original
form. The Republican Senators who voted
against the motion TO have tbs bill amended
to take effect Immediately we're Senators
Emerson Of Warren, Grattan Of Albany
Gilchrlst OF Br ooklyn, Burr Of Suffolk.
Wempls OF Schenectady and Knapp a
Clinton. or thess Senator Grattan has
announced that he would vote 10 pass the
bills when they came up on third reading.
they having been oonsid cred in the ON
mittee Of the whole to-day. Both Penal
Code amendment and the bill repeating
the ~Percy-Gray betting law were advanced
to a third reading tonight.
The result was not altogether a surprise.
for the longer the debate continued II wa1
seen that the opponents Of the AgneW bills
we're losing ground. This morning whsu
the bills were taken up as a special order
in committee OF the whole the opponents
Of the measures were sanguine that thS5
would prevent Senator Agnew from having
his penal code amendment restored 70
its original form. At 1880 a recess waa
taken until 2:9O O'Clock this afternoon and
some missionary work must have besn
done in that time. for when the session
was resumed there was a change Of somo
sort and the opponents Of the measure
wore sober looks. II was openly announced
that Senators who had been counted on a.
certain TO be against the bills were hcpptng
around like fish out Of water.
When a recess was taken at $50 unta
$50 tonight the friends OF the anti-racetFaok
betting bills were positive that the Penal
Code amendment would be amended 70
take effect Immediately. That this wse
the case was apparent when the Senate
~reconvened and Senators Grady and no
Carren talked again. They repeated praO-
tically what they had said In the earlier part
Of the debate, and 1t was plain to Be sssa
that they wero doing what they could 10
gain time 10 order to get another vote.
Senator Cassidy (Rep., ~Schuyler) surprised
all when he voted to amend the bill TO take
effect Immediately after having made .
speech in which he said that the Penal Code
amendment should not take effect until
September /.
That the Governor Was keeping oloss
tabs on what was going on was evident
Attaches Of his office we're about the Senate
chamber and ante-rooras throughout TIE
entire day. limitations in the broadeot
terms we're Riven that unless the bills wors
sent to the Governor In the form that be
wanted them there was bound 10 BE- an
extra session. One close friend Of The
Governor when told that there was Q pros
pect Of the bills being beaten said:
'It's a long time until next OrstmaA.s
when Hughes's term about ends. Bu1
despite these threats Of extra sessions and
Gubernatoral pressure TO pass the biila
one opponent Of the measures tonight.
after the bills had been ordered to q third
reading, said that he was still oonhdo1t
the bills would be defeated when
they came up on the order q
final passage. aud that there WoFs
two more Senators who would vote
against the bills when the final test cana
IL was conceded In advance that the
Agnew bills would be advanced TO . third
reading when they were taken up to-day,
but the fight was 10 prevent the r~oSt0rStion
OF the amendment 70 the Penal Code bfn
10 take effect Immediately instead Of bep-
TENDER / Seven Democratic senators aFa
counted upon 10 be opposed to the bdh
but Senators Fuller Of Kings and Taylor
Of NeWburgh Demoorats) viii vote utth
the Republicans TO pass them. Senator
Wilcox Of Auburn 10 not likely 10 ~ ssTs
the remainder Of the session, and tho ftends
Of the Jockey Club must get at least to
more votes TO prevent the passage OF The
bills, for II the twenty-dx Senators Who
voted to amend the Agnew Penal Cob
amendment bill stand pat the bills Wil b
passed
Senator AgneW tried 10 press bis 81
vantage tonight. Immediately after the
bills had been advanced 10 q third reading
and the committee Of the whole had hosn
and reported 10 the Senate proper he moved
to have substituted for his bills the measures
Of AssemblymAn Hart. which were ~
oeived in the Senate Monday night end
tabled.
Senator Grady objected, saying that ne
bills we're on the table and could not b tAkso
up except under the order Of business u
messages from the Assembly. The chair
sustained Senator Grady. Senator AusW
conferred with Senator RAlneS and thea
subsidized.
The Hart bills can be taken up Tomorrow
and substituted for the AuSw bills, dth@
under the order Of messages from he