Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-07-12
FALLAcT Ct THE So
Called GAMBLING Law
FULL TEXT OF THE MEAS
URE TO BE VOTED ON
SOON.
CAN'T PLAY solitaire
Filled With lockers" That
Would Make 1t an Outrage
Against Decency,

Tntil attention was directed TO the
vicious provisions of the gambling law
IL was generally understood that Il
was a very fair statute and this view
was encouraged and tustercd 10y the
extreme advocates Of lesislated moral
ity. Rut when 1t was discovered that
a man cannot play solitaire in the
privacy of his own room without COM
hitting q crime against the state and
if his wife should happen To have a
bridge party she must go 10 jail, folks
began to wake up, In fact the voters
have been taking notice the past few
DAYS and they are going TO get busy
al the polls in August,
The bin was printed i'm the statute
laws of the past session Of the leRis-
lation but not in many newspapers
that we know, and those who are most
heartily supporting 1t in its entirety
do not appear TO be taking any copies
around with them. That all of the
people MAY know just what is in the
bin The World herewith reprints il
lust as it passed the Legislature and
was signed by the governor, II de-
SER es careful reading and analysis on
the part Of every voter, for the more
II Is read and the more il is studied
the more obnoxious it becomes. The
bin is as follows:
Chapter rs. Crimes and punish
neutrality-suspicious.. House
bin number 81.
An act TO amend sections 2519, 2520
and 252S of the general statutes Of
1898 of the state of oklahoma, rolat-
ing to gambling; and providing pen
Glties for running slot machines; and
providing for civil penalty against
owners Of premises permitting same
to be used in violation of section n
Of this act.
BE It enacted by the people Of the
state OF oklahoma:
Conducting prohibited games-pun-
ishment,
Section l. That section 2519 Of the
general statutes ~ 1898, of the state
Of oklahoma, be, and the same is
hereby amended to e as follows:
Section 2519. Every person who
opens. or causes to he opened, or who
conducts, whether for hire or not, or
carries on either poker, roulette, craps
or banking or percentage, or any
gambling game, played with dice
cards, or any device, for money,
checks, credits, or any representation
Of value, or who, either as owner or
cmploye, whether for hire or not,
deals for those engaged in any of
such games, shall be guilty Of a felony
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine Of not less than
five hundred dollars, nor more than
two thousand dollars, and by impris-
onment In the state ponitentiary for a
term of not less than II year nor
more than ten years"
Playing at prohibited games-pun-
ishment.
Section 2 That section $500. Of the
general statutes Of 1893, of the state
Of oklahoma, be, and the same Is
hereby, amended to read as follows:
Section 1920. Every person who
bets or plays at any OF said prohibited
games, or who shall bet or play at
any game whatsoever, for money,
property, checks, credits, or other
representatives OF value with cards,
dice or any other device which may
be adapted to or used in playing any
game Of chance, or in which chance
Is a material element, shall be guilty
Of a misdemeanor, and is punishable