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VOTE MAT COME TONIGHT EXPECTATION THAT ASSEMBLYMAN MARTIN WILL CALL UP GITTINS BILL. Greater Interest Taken in Proposed Racing Legislation at Albany Than in Other Subjects Scheduled for Action During Special Session. Albany, N. Y., September IS. From the talk of the Legislators it is apparent that there is far greater interest in possible race track legislation than in New- Yorks charter, re-apportionment or anything else that has been suggested. The Gitthis bill, which merely relieves trustees, owners and directors of race tracks from personal responsibility lor betting at tracks, will lte called up by Assemblyman Martin, of Saratoga, and a strong elfort will be made to pass It. It passed the Senate at the regular session. Its enactment into law would make possible a continuation of racing in the state and would prevent the decay or death of the horse breeding Industry. There is a strong sentiment for the bill. Those who are most enthusiastic in their efforts to put the bill through say that they can muster the necessary votes. Those who have canvassed the situation predict that the necessary majority could be corralled if asstlrances were given that the governor would sign the bill if It passed. It is certain that the Gittlns bill will be one of the principal Issues of the special session, and it is likely that it will be called up Tuesday night. New York. September IS. The Farmers and Merchants Mutual Assistance League, which was organized to opiKKe the passage of laws dictated by bigotry and prejudice, and which favors the Gittius bill at Albany, which relieves directors of corporations from responsibility for violation of the law on their premises, has increased its membership by several thousand in the last three weeks. There Is a popular idea that the league is made up entirely of persons Interested In horse racing," said one of the officers today. "As a matter of fact," most of the members at the present time are residents of rural sections, who liolieve not only in horse raring as a sport, hut iu personal liberty L as a general principle; and who have been oppressed fcbv the tendency of the last few Legislatures to restrict the rights of the individual. "At the present time the directors liability law is a dead letter, save as It refers to horse racing. It never has been enforced against the directors of prize-fighting clubs, baseball clubs, or county fair associations. For this" reason the league is standing solidly behind the Gittlns bill, which was framed to do away with this injustice."
