The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-24
PRIMARY and
GAMBLING
BILLS
HOLD ASSEMBLY BOARDS-WIL-
LAMS' BILL KILLED,
VOTE 20 TO II

q SuddenneSS Jnat was "Holly uhdh
ticipated a vote was forced in the
assembly yesterday on the Williams
amendment to the anti-gambling law
and the measure was killed by the
surprisiue vote of IL for and 20
against, with six members absent.
II was after all other business fer
the day had been disposed of ana
when a motion to adjourn till Mon
dav was in order thai hardy of Hum
boldt asked the speaker to refer
back to motions and resolutions. He
then moved that the gambling bill,
assembly bill 10, be taken from the
table. where it was placed by a vote
OF Il to Il earlier in the week. His
motion prevailed and he then moved
hat the bill be placed on third read
ing and final passage.
Williams of Clark, the author OF
the bill. offered an amendment 10
the first section. The amendment
would permit social games for
drinks or cigars, provided the drinks
-
or cigars were served individually
during the progress of the game and
no tokens or representatives OF
value given. The amendment was
declared lost by Speaker Luce, who
refused to call for the negative
votes after 10 votes had been regis
tered in its favor.
Williams spoke emphatically in ia
vor of the bill, disclaiming that he
is against all forms of card playing.
He took issue with the members who
voted against the amendment TO
permit social games of cards and yet
were willing to vote for a bill thai
would permit ''discredited, disrep-
utable race track gamblers to come
in from outside states and take the
money of the people out of the
state"
Hardy of Humboldt said that he
was opposed to that particular bill
because he believed it o drastic
and vicious. He branded it as an
"iron-clad, copper-bound, alright
measure" and said he would moi sup
port II lOr lHdl TedSOH.
Booher of Elko spoke in favor OF
the bill. He branded the present
gambling law as IAN outrage on the
people of the state" and said that he
had been reliably informed that it
had resulted in bringing into Elko
county alone, within the last W
years ''over 800 tin-horn gamblers,
over 800 boosters for poker games
He declared that he believed a bill
could not be made too tight and that
it could not hurt him because he
had been through the mill and
been trimmed"
Griffith of Clark said the law had
been the direct cause of six muir
ders in his county within the last
two wears, crimes committed over
the gambling table. He also said
that the district attorney of Clark
county informed him that so per
cent of the crimes committed in that
county in the last two years were
directly attributable to the present
gambling law.
Voting for the bill were Williams
and Griffith of Clark, Booher and
Fairchild of Elko, Stodieck of Doug
las, Lindsay of Esmeralda, Kaeding
of Lander. Fulton of Eureka, Tidd
of Lyon, Garrison of Lincoln, Gallag-
her of White Pine.
Absent were Beard of Washoe,
Coryell of Elko, Fulmer of White
Pine. Bell of Nye and Hartman and
Renfro of Churchill. OF the six alb
.sentees Coryell. Renfro and Harri-
mar probably would have voted for
the bill and the other three against
1t.
The general impression seems to
be that the vote taken yesterday in
dicates that gambling legislation of
some sort will he passed by the pres
ent legislature.
In view of the fact that two pri-
mary election bills have been intro
duced in the legislature, n dia-
metrically opposed to the other, be-
lief has been freely expressed among
the legislators that the result will
be that the present convention sys-
tenn of choosing party. candidates
will be on the statute books for two
years more at least.
The senate has declared in favor
of the Huskey bill, which places
county and township offices on a
non-partisan basis and provides for
the adoption of a pre-primary plat
form to bind candidates. The Luce
bill. offered in the assembly, con-
tains none OF these features and its
supporters are said to be radically
opposed to them. 1t is said that the
senate cannot very well accept the
Luce bill after having adopted the
Huskey bill and that if the assembly
follows the will of it's speaker the
Huskey bill will not get very far in
the lower house.