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ATTACKED ON NEW GBOUSD ARKANSAS RACING BILL HELD UNCONSXIIU TIONAL BY ATTORNEY GENERAL Head of States Legal Department Files Reply to toComplaint Complaint of Friends of Sawyer Bill and Trial Trialof of Case Will Begin Today at Little Rock Little Rock Ark April 5 That tlic Sawyer racing liill is unconstitutional even if it had not been vetoed l y Governor Hays is i contention made liy AttorneyGeneral Moose in his reply ti tile complaint liled liy friends of ttie Sawyer Mil that this act was not legally vetoed by the governor governorJudge Judge Moose liases Ills contention that the Ml is unconstitutional on the faet that about thirty fivo counties were exempted from the laws t hereby giving certain counties privileges not allowed to others This he says is a discrimination pro ¬ hibited Ijy the state constitution In further reply however Judge Moose holds that Governor Hays did actually veto tlie bill ait 4 oclock on tits day that it was returned in the complaint against Secretary of State Hodges Therefore Secretarv 1 lodges did right in refusing to include the bill in the acts of the legislature n interesting fact in connection with both the complaint and the reply is that while the fact that the bill did not reach the House from Gov ¬ ernor Hays until oclock on tht night of the day that it was returned is mentioned especially in the complaint neither the complaint nir the answer treats this fact as having any lieariug on the legality of the veto It was thought bv friends of the hill that this would be urged as one of the main reasons for declaring that the hill is a law the governor having failed to return it to the House within live days actual time from the time it was presented to him by the enrolling committee committeeThe The attorneys in the suit have reached an agree nient to hear the case tomorrow
