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AID FROM A POWERFUL QUARTER. Albany. N. Y.. July 11 Lawmakers and others who are eager to pass the Jltlins bill, the purpose of which is to protect owners and directors of race tracks, found encouragement in an editorial which appeared yesterday in the Albany Evening Journal, which is owned bj Willi im Karnes. Jr.. Republican chairman and leader of his party in the state. By some of the legislators it was regarded as a "tip to Republican legislators to join with tie- Democrats and put through the directors bill. In part the editorial says: "•If the Legislature of the state of New York desires to prohibit racing of horses, either running or trotting, because it believes that isr.ch sport is destructive of morala, it can passer law making it a misdemeanor to race horses, aaaborate provf sions of law are now on the statute flboks governing horse racing, but the enactment of lie Kilo ainenil-uient to the penal law was advocated fo-,- the parpoai of preventing tfe racing of horses except under the auspices of such persons as were willing to tak. a chance of being held guilty of a misdemeanor. "In other words, it limine ted Intelligent management of race tracks and leaves the condu -t of them to those who are willing to be lawbreakers in case some persons bet oa the track. The state of New York in its dignity ought not to do by Indirection what apparently n does not dare do by direction. "Horse racing should be pr I, initial or it should be recognised. If it is recognised it should be I er aha ted. If gambling at the track is to be made a misdemeanor, tins, wii . are guilty of it should be prosecuted. It is generally understood that there is no chance of passing the companion bill, which defines hookinaking without writing. The race track owners, however, will be satisfied if the directors liability measure is put through, because they can continue racing without running the risk of going to.iail because of offenses committed by others and wandhout their knowledge." jtbi, leaders of the Senate have not agreed on a daKnbu which ,to call up the Git tins bill. It -s" undorsMo.l that the bill defining bOOkauJdag is to be «iiafnftiM d and efforts concentrated m the passage qjWjdTraeasixre repealing the so called directors liil.iliraVhiw. "It is iv8V so late." s-iid Senator Git tins, sponsor for the measure, "that I have decided to strip the bill of everything except the bare question of Whether this legislature is willing to stand for the proposition that any man may be imprisoned without faalt on his part. So blue a law never before was Ingrafted upon our statutes. It is a crying disgrace to see it there and it ig too bad that the efforts to correct this outrage, simplv because it inures to the advantage of directors of facing associations, should be widely characterized as being born ot graft and corruption."
