New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-16
RACING BILLS SIGNED
Destined to Wipe Out Profess
sionaI Gambling at Tracks.
BLOW AT RAINES HOTELS
Governor Approves Conklin Elk
else Measures Providing
for Fewer Saloons.
IBy Telegraph to TTsN Tribune. J

Albany. June 15.-DesigJled 10 wipe ont
professional gambling ut race tracks the
ASnew-Perkins so-callec "oraI bookmakfng
bills were signed by Governor Hughes TO-
day. Race track people lugubriousiy oe-
cIared when these measures were uhoer
consideration by the Legislature that
their enactment into law would result VI
the closing of all racetracks in the stap-
These three bills supplement the Asnew-
Hart anti-gambling laws OF 1919 fhey "efe
made necessary by a dodge of the book
makers who continued to do business with
o,,t Recording bets or by recording them
in some kind of cipher. To end this
amendments TO the penal law were drafted.
one making it a misdemeanor punishable
by Imprisonment of not longer than one
wear to make book with or without Writ
ing" and another extending the provisions
of the gambling section to cover Face
tracks OF other Enclosures
The third measure was fought eespsr-
ately by racetrack men and certain inter
ests in the Legislature Ii rePeais Tue
Percy-Grey law, which exempted trustees
or directors of racing associations from
personal liability for gambling on Ihe
premises, provided signs were posted "afii-
ing patrons against gambling and special
effect of the law is to make directors or
trustees liable personally for violations Oh
the snti-samb,ing laws in future at the
tracks With which they are connecten-
Members of the Jockey Club told lesisia-
tors when the original Agnew-Hars bfiis
we're under consideration. that they didn
stand for professional gambling and that
racing didn't depend for its life on asse-
citation with professional gamblers
Another bill on the same general SUD
iect though not in this series. was signed
by the Governor namely Senator Schios
ser's. repeating the law granting per cent
of the state proceeds from race tracks 10
the AGRICULTURAL societies. That provision
was sop TO the farmers on the ground
that racing improved the breed OF horses
and that the tillers Of the soil Should ae
rive some benefit from the TRANSACTIONS
The Governor to-day signed the EXCISE
Department bills introduced by Assembly
man ConkIin generally amending me eS-
else law. and AssemblyTnan Bates S meas
IRE. supported by the Committee Oh fouI-
teen. permitting saloonkeepers 10 put up
cash or certified checks for bonds lrhSeead
of having to give personal or surety conf
panv bond This legislation is aimed IN
sense at disreputable RaiHes law notes
The department bills provide FOR sne re
strietion of licenses for saloons and notes
to one for each $50 of population Inc
nresent ratio is about one for each fVo OF
loss and it will be several years before
the proportion of one saloon to every foo
persons is reached by the gradual dFeppins
ont of old places and the increase of popu-
Iation. Consequently no new licenses VIII
be issued for several years
Another provision takes an hour off tae
running time of saloons in the morning, re-
ouirina them to stay closed until 8 a. m
instead of s. A hard blow is struck at
iIleyitimate ''hotels" in the provision that
no bedroom or similar room may be rented
more than once between p m and a. m.
of the following day, or be rented Tor I'M
moral purposes.
The Bates measure is designed TO remedy
an evil in the existing law under which
surety companies are enabled to exact big
premiums for bonding saloenkeeperS ana
those who run Raines law dives The
specified fee for an excise bond is $50, but
it is said that saloonkeepers have been re-
ouired to pay $500 or $500 in some cases,
to make up 70 the surety companies for
losses on forfeited bonds.
Although not yet announced, it is under
stood another bill, providing for an in
crease of the distance within which resi-
Dental consents for the establishment of
saloons shall be obtained, from 20 TO 500,
feet has been signed