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NO ARKANSAS RACING FOR AWHILE. Little Stock. Ark. July r..- Hot Springs chaaeaa for home racing Bnaily wen- shattered t.Mlay when the Supremo Court of Arkansas dismissed the appeal of the Arkansas state Fair Association t" hue the secretary of state declare the Sawyer racing bill ■ law. The action, a maadamas t- compel the secretary t. publish the bill with other leeislsttve acta of 1913 was dismissed without a dooi-ioii as to its merit-. The court rul-d that inn-much as the stent tary of state had published already the other acta passed, he had complied with the proTiaaaaa of the ronstitatiog and thai the caase Cor action hod died sntomatirallv with tbe n id. Meat Ion of the other laws. The question of the validity of tbe veto of Governor George W. Hays was n.a paaard upon The Sawyer bill was passed March 5 and signed, vet .ed. iv sign,- I and again vetoed by the goveraor March ll, it proposed to give Hoi Springs racing under a state c mission and would have legalized pari inuluel betting.
