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GOVERNOR VETOES COLORADO RACING BILL. Business Interests of State Up in Arms Over Action and Passage Over Veto Is Probable. . Denver. Col.. April 17. Governor Shafrotli today vetoed the Cornforth State Fair and Horse Racing bill and thereby aroused the indignation of .the busi-nessjinterests of Denver and the state. The hieasure passed lxitli houses with little opposition. It provided for the pari-niutuel system of letting, the race associations to receive five per cent, of the receipts as commission. Governor Shafrotli vetoed the measure without giving its friends a chance to show why he should sign it. and did not do Senator Coiuforth, who is a Republican, the courtesy to consult him before rejecting the measure. Governor Shafroth is accused of taking his cue in the premises from a delegation of ministers who called upon him Saturday and declared the state-was going to the dogs. Not one of these ministers, it developed afterward, had read the bill. There is a very strong possibility that lwth houses will pass the bill over the governors veto. When Governor SlnJfroth was informed of this, he declared that he would not npiioint a race commission unless compelled to do so bj mandamus liroceedings in the courts. In his veto message Governor Shafrotli said: I regard his bill as in violation of the constitution, and moral law. and I want to say that if you pass it over my veto I will never apixiint a raciug commission. such as it provides for. until I am compelled to do so 1y the writ of mandamus issued by the highest court of the land."
