GAMING--BETTING.
Mr. Kenner's bill [H. R. 233] concerning gaming contracts [money or valuables lost by bets or gaming can not be recovered or contract made, shall be invalid] was read the third time.
Mr. KENNER said this was very necessary. Where money is bet this law will reach it. When it is deposited, or after it is drawn, it gives a man's wife or children the privilege to recover such valuables. This bill will restrain betting on horse races and many other species of gaming which corrupts our society.
The bill passed--yeas, 70; nays, 0.