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BRITISH LAW GOOD ENOUGH CANADIAN RACING INTERESTS ADVOCATE PASSAGE OF SIMILAR LEGISLATION Counsel Opposing Miller Bill Ask Parliamentary ParliamentaryCommittee Committee of Inquiry to Recommend RecommendEnglish English Statute of 190G Ottawa Out March S The written argument by Counsel for the various jockey clubs of Canada has IMCII submitted lo mcniliers of the s ccial parliament ¬ ary oiminittcc that Iieard evidence for and agalnA the Miller cintll ookinikbig hill Fifty l ages of a printed pamphlet arc devoted to an analysis of the facts adduced b the inquiry the report Iwing signed J y F E MerediUi and Aline Gcoffrion for the Montreal Jockey Club Leighton McCarthy for the Ottawa Jockcv Club J L Counsel for the Hamilton Jockey Club and T H Moss for the breeding Interests InterestsThev Thev submit that the eonimittee should report buck to the house a hill liased on the British statute of which woidd suppress street betting and hand IMMI making but which exempts nice courses on ran days from the operation of the act It is sug wsted that race meetings should lie limited to lierhwls of twelve days not more than twice a year u siny trick and wilU an interval of at least twenty lajv The argument iKints out tliat Her Dr Shearer a paid secietarr of the Moral Reform Council is res onsible for die alleged public agita ¬ tion in the matter all of which is manufactured and fictitious Becjuse of his ignorance of the facts am conditions lie has caused different liodles to assent to recitals which are declared to l le e utterly initnie and misleading misleadingThe The argument pleads that the proposed hill of Mr Miller would create worse instead of lietter condi ¬ tions and that it is Impracticable and miBritish The committee is exacted to favor a renHKleled hill on the lines of the English act hut it is quite pos ¬ sible that the committees report may not reach Parliament at all as Hie house program is to close njl huslness and irorogiie1iy Twister March It This would leave the situation the same as in the past
