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SLIM HOPE FOR GITTINS BILLS. Albany. N. Y.. July X.— Thai the bills designed to relieve racing Introduced by Senator Cittins. of Niagara Calls, will not pass daring the present see-oion of the Legislature is practically assured. One of the Legislators Interested in the bills, who ling ered in Albany until yesterday, insisted that the supporters of the bill felt confident that Governor I i would not sign them if they got as far as the executive chamber. "There wonM be no use putting a lot of men on record in favor of or against these bills." be said, "unless we had some certainly that the governor would sign them. Knowing that he will not. it is useless to bother any more witli the on nausea. Maybe ■ more successful effort will be made in year and maybe not. "The trouble is that many people have an entirely wrong idea about these bills. You would think to bear them talk that we intended letting down the bars and "throwing Into operation again all of the gambling apparatus of the race tracks. That is decidedly not the case. "One bill proposes merely to define what a bookmaker at the track is — a man who accepts wagers from all comers— and the other bill attempts to change into sane legislation the bill which now makes directors of racing associations responsible for gambling, whether they had any personal knowledge of It or not. "We proponed merely to protect them from criini Ml responsibility for something they had absolutely nothing to do with. We never did and never will attempt to let down the bars to permit race track gambling. The racing associations dont want to So that." Representatives of the reform associations work-lug in Albany against the bills have been giving out freely for several days that Governor IMx had given them assurance that be would not. sign the Glttlns measures. Roth hills are now in the committee of the Whole of the Senate and they may come up for discussion during the latter part of this week. Senator Gltttaa has not as yet given up the fight, which he insists is prompted only by a sense of fairness to the racing associations baring a great deal at slake, and who will be put completely out of business if the bills do not become laws. Senator Cittins has felt for some time that he bad PDOBCh votes in the Senate m pass the bills. Tit the discouragement which comes from the executive chamber naturally puts a damper on his efforts.
