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TEXANS ARE STILL JOCKEYING Bepealists Fail in Efforts to Bring Measure Up for Special Order on the Calendar. AUSTIN, Texas, April 7. Race betting repeal today was a waiting game in the Texas senate, its foes once again having refused to let it be set for special order on the calendar. Grady Woodruff, Decatur senator, now the floor leader for the repealists, failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote to set the Bradbury repeal bill for special order at 11 a. m. Wednesday. Again he tried this time for 11 a. m. Thursday. Again he failed. Then Joe Hill, Henderson, tried a little strategy, inasmuch as the last vote had shown a slight gain for the repealers. Hill wanted it set for 10:45 a. m. Wednesday. He, too, was unsuccessful and racing repeal stays far down the senate calendar, with fifty-five bills and numerous special orders and constitutional amendments ahead of it,
