The Nome daily nugget., 1913-07-15
NEW-cA GAMBLING.
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The meeting of the city council was . warm one last evening and the lines os cleavage between the old council members present and the new major ity were very evident during the de- bates which occurred especially dur ing the consideration of the new or dinance on gambling. The new gamb- ling ordinance makes it an offence to rent or lease a house for gambling law and ordinance committee. reported against the ordinance and recom- mended laying 1t aside. He said that no conviction could be obtained against a. man just because house owned by him had been used for gambling. He compared such a course as similar to holding liable for crime the owner of mine or which the lesses had committed some offence. He also called the ordinance un-Amer, ican and several other things but City Attorney Reed showed where the clause relating to letting houses for gambling was taken entirely from the Washington. state statutes. Walker of the police committee. who intfodI ,ed the ordinance. said the report of the committee was misleading
 Gilmore suggested that the ordi- nance would result in /raiding homes. Murphy said 1t would prevent people from fooling the police by renting houses for gambling a little way out. and also prevent them from using rooming houses. eta Gilmore sus- gested xhat~a man may not know that his house was being used for gamb- ling and that it would be wrong to hold him responsible Reed said the courts would construe 1t to mean that a man must knowingly rent his house or premises for gambling Walker said the police would not arrest man uniess he knew that he was doing . wrong. The only intention of his department was, he said. to correct an evil not to in1ure anyone. Gilmore said Nome fs no Puritan village. He personally knows of big games going on some miles outside of the city. Moiler, of course. was on Gilmore's side and they were the only ones who voted against the ordinance. Gilmores report was turned down prior to the vote on the ordinance itself.
 The meeting was a lively one in other respects also. It was ordered that man now In the hospital be sent to the home, at Sitka at his own request. The Fourth of July conn mittes recommended giving the resi- zdue of the funds to the fund for the reception of the excursionists and 1t was done A new ordinance govern ing the, sssessment, of the city prop. erty and the collection of the taxes was inttoduced and referred to the committee.
 Then came . long discussion on the ordinance to make the beach between Snake river and sessnon's . highway and e make t . misdensanor te dump earbags thereon. It was decided sstss |. some discussion to abandon the ordi- Aancs and to put up notices instssA but when .:ths health officer and tho city attosnsy pointed out that notices are no rood without m ordinance to snloree shsn tAa, council very ssasa- hsy re-ccaeilsrsd their vote and the .ordisancs was Sdsss1 foe that reading. n vfs suegsstsd 4hat sarbass taas sAoalA bs placed ea the beach fee thp eonvsnisncs q >ths people vhs NSatSa to dump thsrs but wAIkse ooAtsl eus that thsss was uo nses feassA so suSply sans tsr the pssess sa sn4 aiA sids of ths strsss than ,sse .ths ressss q. tho othss.
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