The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-11

This afternoon at o'clock at tha Auditorium theater a mass meeting of citizens of Hot Springs will be , held to determine the future attitude Of this city relative to the racing . bill.
 lt is the presumption that the result Of th.6 meeting will be that lawyers Will be retained to fight the issue to The court Of last resort, and that Hot Springs will under present conditions assume that the Sawyer bin is a law.
 An impromptu discussion of the situation was held at the Business Mems League yesterday morning. and it was the unanimous expression of those present that if Hot Springs pursued its rights in the matter. the Sawyer bill would he declared a law.
 George P. Wilmington yesterday at Little Rock went over the prehmi- naries with a view to making lip the record of the case in the event the situation is 10 be taken to the courts. The first steps would be to sndeayor 10 uphold the act in a lower court. and thereafter. to get the matter be- fore the supreme court of the state.
 The positive declaration Of Gov. ernor Hays that he first disapproyad ftiIe measure, then approved it. and then afterwards again disapproyed it. would put this city al a disadvantage in establishing that his first action was to approve the blll, but there are several witnesses wlo have given out statements in which they say that Governor Hays approved the measure aS his first action, when he attached his name to the bii,
 It is 8 we'll known fact that the gov. ernor does not affix his signature 10 a vetoed measure. He merely marks it disapproyed, and no signature is gwen except to the message wlich tollcws to the legislative branch in which the measure originated.
 Governor Hays yesterday at Little Rock admitted having scratched the dis from before the approved. and having signed this name. to leave the hlll an approved act, but he contends that the first action was veto. which was later rescinded. and th.n that he again rescinded favor of the bill and finally wrote in a veto.
 The first line on the bill reads.
 "Dis-ApprOved. March Stnl9l5. at f o'clock D. m"
 The original line, it is stated, was:
 Approved, March Sth 1915. at 4 o'clock D. m"
 Governor Hays says he wrote the Dis in front of the approved, then scratched that out, and then with the bill approved affixed his sig, nature. The others present as wit nesses do not agree 10 this statement Of alleged fact
 Some who were present probably will testify in the case that the gov. ernor was in such a highly nervous state he could not now know pos lively how the chain of events hap pc ed in his office. He seemed to have been tied hard and fast to prom ises to sign the bill and to veto it, and to know nothing about what he was really going to do until it was done, and little then.
 Another Viewpoint.
 A strong point was developed for the consideration of the lawyers last night when this fact was brought to the attention of The Sentinel Re cord, which out of the mouth of the gov ernor himself proves that this racing bill is not vetoed
 The governor says in his declara- tion to the Gazette:
 "L am proud of the fact that the photograph of the signature was made and published because it is sufficient of itself, without one word from me, to show that THE FIRST ACT OF MINE WAS TO DISAPPROVE THE BILL This is shown by the first erasure made in the presence of these gentlemen and afterward written on the bill
 The point is this:
 A legislative veto cannot be con- plete until the governor has com pleted the act of veto by returning the bill with his veto message to the house in which the bill originated. Therefore this legislative act was not in actuality vetoed until the last act of the governor was performed by