This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...only races interfered with even indirectly by this act are the ninning races t hat lure men from business from 30 to 100 days, the main purpose of which is gambling. If horse racing is managed mainly for gambling and the gambling part of it is crippled, in some cases the racing may be discontinued; but there is nothing in this act which interferes with the racing. We have nothing against the trotting races at county fairs where there is no professional gambling and only a little individual betting. This is not a bill to prevent even running races. Kentucky can go on racing on her tracks, and so can Maryland, and so can Nevada. It is only the giving out of gambling information that is stopped, that which is now telegraphed and telephoned from the tracks to the newspapers, or to gambling sheets, and printed, and put in the mails. It does not even stop the use of the telephone and telegraph for gambling. That is covered in the Sterlmg-Sandlin bill, that we hope will be passed later. This legislation will be a large step toward correcting the amazing amount of gambling that is going on since the war, and has now gotten to be of collossal size, one of the greatest evils in the United States. This will not interfere with telephoning or telegraphing in connection with gambling when it does not go into print. That may be dealt with later. May I say that Mr. Sandlin, of Louisiana, introduced Mr. Sterling's bill in the Ilouee at the request of the constitutional convention of that State, because the State's rights of Louisiana, as well as those of 44 other States, were being broken down. They could not carry out the purpose of their own legislation and enforce their own laws because they were interfered with by interstate gambling through the...