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ARKANSAS TEST AT HAND HOT SPRINGS COMMITTEE ENGAGES UNITED STATES SENATOR CLARKE TO DIRECT CASE Announcement Is Made That Court Action Will Be BeFormally Formally Begun at Little Rock Tomorrow to toSettle Settle Validity of Sawyer Racing Bill Little nock Ark March 20 That Governor George W Hays intended signing the Sawyer racing Jilll that nil his previous actions had been directed toward securing the passage of the hill and that after he once signed the measure he had completed his executive function and the measure had become a law will be virtually the outlines of the case to bo tiled in the Pulaski chancery court here Mon ¬ day by attorneys for Hot Springs interests to sus ¬ tain tJie legality of the bill creating a stale racing commission wageringUnited and legalizing parimiituel wagering United States Senator lames I Clarke it was an ¬ nounced today by George It Belding of Hot Springs secretary of the state fair commission will direct tin light an T will be assisted by W H Martin formerly prosecuting attorney in Hot Springs and now lilted States district attorney for Arkansas ArkansasIn In directing the effort to prove thai Governor HiiVN hail intended signing the racing bill appoxi matelv a score of members of the fortieth general assembly will be summoned as witnesses it was said today to show that an agreement existed be ¬ tween the governors office and tho house adminis ¬ tration headed by Speaker L K Sawyer author of the racing bill wherein the speaker had pledged his support for certain administrative measures desired by the governor if the governor in turn would throw Ills influence to aid the passage of the Sawyer bill and llnully sign it House leaders will be asked to show that the legislation desired by the governor wan passed by them and then when the Sawyer bill was passed by the assembly the governor do serted his friends and vetoed the bill after he had first signed the measure and left the friends of the tct to believe that itlmd becnnirut4UV Governor Hays himself will lx summoned it was said to make clear his position in the matter matterA A half dozen witnesses among them Belding Frank Kitchens qf H plena Ark a wellknown poli tieian Capt II UHlce plantation owner and horseman of Varner Ark II S Mobley president of the Arkansas Farmers Inion and Speaker Saw ¬ yer all of whom declare they saw the governor ap ¬ prove the hill and that he accepted their congratu ¬ lations for so doing will b placed upon the stand il was declared declaredThrough Through proving an intent to sign attorneys for the bill hope to establish actual proof that the governor did sign the hnl first and that his control over the destinies of the measure were ended when he attached his name to it itAccording According to District Attorney Martin there is no question as to the constitutionality of the racing measure and a score of Little Hock attorneys have held that in signing the measure even though the governor afterward disavowed his signature and intent to sign the hill is a law In order to leave no doubt that a fair proceeding will be had friends of the bill decided to lile suit in the Pulaski chan ¬ cery court Instead of the Garland chancery wherein is located the city of Hot Springs SpringsHot Hot Springs Ark March 20 The committee appointed by the mass meeting held in this city for the purpose of contesting the validity of the parimuttiel racing bill recently passed by tho legislature and first signed and then vetoed by the governor announced last night that it had chosen Inltod States Senator James P Clarke to assist Inlted States district attorney Martin in testing thijji matter in the courts It is announced that tlin cass will probably be filed in the courts at Little Rock Monday MondayWith With two such eminent lawyers as Messrs Clarke and Martin both of wham are firmly convinced that the bill is now a law in charge of the case the people of Hot Springs are awaiting with intense interest the testimony and final deeison in the case The business men here are still anxious for a season of racing this spring but at best the kind that could now be held would be that of the matinee sort There are plans under way to eon duet racing at Oaklawn on March 27 for one day if horses can be secured to run for small purses
