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MILLER BILL HEARINGS RESUMED Ottawa Ont February 1C The committee on the Miller bill to prohibit hookmaking in Canada resumed its hearings today and heard three witnesses called by counsel for the Moral Reform Association Chief of Police Slemin of lirantford who was a Toronto detective until six years ago said the worst evil of race track bookmaking was the presence of American bookmakers who came over here and took away Canadian money He thought Canadian Itookmakers were upright and decent men Guard Lyons of Toronto Central Prison produced six type ¬ written life histories of inmates of that institution but as soon as It developed that they had been pre ¬ pared by Air Haney the Moral Keform Associations counsel and that two of the convicts had refused to sign them the committee refused to accept them as evidence A Toronto butcher told how he hail vainly tried to beat the bookmakers bookmakersAnsley Ansley Yeager of Siiucoo Out a big dealer and breeder testified that he had in the last few years paid Hie farmers of his county 78C43 for the prog ¬ eny of a single stallion from halfbred mares He had just sold four gelding for 11000 also out of halfbred marcs The use of thoroughbred blood was absolutely necessary to impart quality to the hack ¬ ney He considered racing necessary for thorough ¬ bred and standardbred development and betting and the revenue from it essential to racing
