The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-02
SENATE AMEDMENT READ TWICE q AND MAJORITY SECURED TO
 SUSPEND RULES.
FINAL PASSAGE IS CERTAIN
Outlook For Success Was Never More Bright Than at Present Time and
 R Last Vote Comes Today Promin- ent Men of State Support Bill.
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 Little Rock, March l-Frieuds and supporters of the State Fair Commis. sion bill, which will legaIize horse racing in Arkansas under the pari- mutue system. are iubilant tonight, for they feel that their efforts in be- half of this measure, which has craat- ed more interest in the present gen. eral assembly than any legislatioh any senate or house has had 10 con slider in years, and which has brought into Little Rock in support Of the bin more influential men from ali sections ol the state than any other one meas ure in many. many sessions will b, crowned with success Tuesday morn ing, when the bill will come mp Tor final consid araton in the house.
 The session of this body had pro- gress almost to the end of its attel moons deliberations when this bH was called to the attention of the members by bringing up for concur ance the amendm mt of the senate, which exempts thirty-fiye couut.e- from the provisions of the bill The house adopted the amendment which was read twice.
 Tn real test of strength however came after the first reading of the amendment when a motion was mad to suspend the rules and read the amendment the second time To sus- pend the rules it is necessary that motion of this nature have two. thirds majority. and the votes showed that 57 representatives voted Go sus- pend the rules and 2N votes against the motion, which was one more than two-thirds required When the vote was announced friends of inc bui made no effort to restrain their de. light, for it clearly indicated the pas sage of the bill in the morning, wlen i, will be considered shortly after o'clock
 To pass the bin requires only a ma iority, and il the bill could muster a two.thrds vote for the suspension Of the rules, it does not seem within the realm of possibility that anything can stop the success of the measure in the house Tuesday
 Since the bitter fight in the senats over the bill members of tde house who were either opposed to the meas ure or who did not vote for the bill have come out openly for it. They have learned that the bill was not tLe gambling measure many claimed lt was; that it would not be a disgrac to Arkansas to pass it. that many other progressive states, namely Colo. rado and Idaho have adopted uari- mutuel racing that there is a bill If the same nature now pending in the Texas house, having passed the sen. ate there, and another in the Mis- souri legislature, and, better still, that there was no great, concerted move ment by the church people of the state against the measu-
 The principle surprise to the oppou- ents of the bill was the lack of sup port that the cnurch people of Hot OpIlnSS SubN th. l1tii' ltbAh i'dIAl' f' connected with the Alliance of this city had tried to stir mp sentiment i1 Hot Springs against the measure was concerned, amounted to almost noth- ing. and it was being whispered to- night around the corridors of the Ho- tel Marion that a well known super intandent of a Hot Spring Sunday school was circulating q petition which was being signed by the mem bers of his church, asking that th s bin be passed. 1t appears that while this man was entertaining members of the legislature who visited Hot Springs Sunday a petition against the bill had been circulated and obtained few signers in his church. He claim ed that those who signed the petition inimical to the racing bill did not rep resent the majority of the members of the congregation, so ne circulated petition for the bill, which it was stated tonight, was being literally signed by members of that particular church
 Then too. the effort of the oppon- ents of the bill to get these petitions circulated and signed in all the churches Sunday, it was stated, had failed. One Hot Springs church, it