New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-14
TO ALLOW FRIENDS BET
AgneW-PefkinS Measures Likely
To Be Amended.
REPORT EXPECTED TODAY
Assembly Passes Bill to Punish
ANY Who Consent to Gam
bling on Premises.
r8y Telegraph TO Tho Tribune


Albany. April lS-As a result Of d hearing
his afternoon before tho Senate Codes
Committee on she Agnew- Perkins anti-oral
betting hii.s There viii probably DE amend
ments - make the provisions against oral
Netti0r Apply only 10 ihc bookmaker and
not Interfere with the rights n those dc
slriug 10 make friendly bets. X Is expected
that Tho bills. SO amended. VIII be reported
by the committee tomorrow. Pleas o.
make the bills Jess drastic than IN their
present form were made before the com
nattoe by horse breeders. thoroughbred
dealers sud -acotracS owners.
Canon Chase. representing the Society
Tor the Prevention Of crime. woo appeared
fol the hlis in tleir present form. said he
had nothing against III horse industry. 50
long ss b did not mean the ruin OF boys
ana Eirls.
Joseph r. Auersach, for ,hc Jockey club
declared that. under the decision Of the
Court of Appeals. the WAGER o. box OF
candy against n pair OF gloves would be
the laying cf odds. which these bills would
.rohiht
DO you believe ,bat." Canon Chase
asked.
''Of course 2 DO" was she reply. 1T is
tao language o. Judge Haigit and Judge
cullen wrote ths opinion. ia wAich he said
such legislation would bring the admins
trauor of tine law lnto disreputc-
Senator Bracket. chairman OF The COM
mittce. said that pc did not think the meH-
oe~s of The committee had any sympathy
Will the use cf official power oppresslvely.
Huf do believed that the committee would
ike 20 eliminate the professional gambler.
''tho man with the checker board clothes.
whether hc makes his books orally or with
recosd.
H. answer 20 n question as 10 how that
could poo done, NJ Auerbach said that
bo1Snaz king was not subject To definition,
but 70 enumeration. lie declared that the
bids should bo SO framed as 20 take from
the bookuak,r the provisions which would
make his business profitable lie then sug-
restcd an anlendmenj 20 take out the words
orally or otherwise" in relation 10 book
nc king. as wen as that part OF the section
Which makes il unlawful 10 lay odds on any
lnt',ra event. canon Chase said afterward
that the amendments would not be accept
eide 40 THOSE who favored the Agnew-Por-
krn> bills
.. 4. Upton. - the Fasie-Tipton Com
pans. of New York. said that because Of
uncertainty as 10 the Agnew- Hart law
The horse auction business of The company
rad fallen of from N.50C09 in 1871 10
$4,000 last year. and thar the proposed
bills would XIII the business or horse breed
I1E altogether.
,. ~. Camden. a breeder from Kentucky,
declared that IL was not possible TO con-
duct horse breeding on high standard IA
This country with New York eliminated
Others present who opposed the bills were
AEcrnon Daiugerield, acting secretary Of
'ne Jockey club. i. r Hitchcock and An
drew Miller. Senator Agnew and the Rev
br Walter LaIdlaw were present in the
interest % tie bills
Tie Assembly to-day by a vote o. Is 10
= passed the Perkins bin, making guilty
'f "a misdemeanor persons or corporations
VINO know Of or consent to gambling on
premises owned by them. An amendment
cE y. II. Clarke. q Sheepshead Bay.
which would practically leave the law az
% is, was defeated 10y 2 vote Of 50 to %.
he other Perkins anti-bctting bills were
o. tie calendar. but were not reached.