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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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lottery just isn't of constitutional proportion nnd

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that if it is to be prohibited or if it is to be

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permitted, these are questions which should be left to

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the Legislature and should not be hemmed in by constitu-

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tional, mandate to outlaw it.

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He further says if you are going to outlaw

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the lottery, you ought to outlaw pari-mutuel betting,

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you ought to outlaw all kinds of other games of chance,

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I suppose, such as the churchs have, volunteer firemen

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have, bingo and everything else.

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Would you care, you don't have to, to address

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any remarks to this particular proposition?

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MX. MILLS: I wouldn't care to address

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myself in this area. It is sometimes easy to sit in the

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catbird seat. I have enough trouble. I am sure we

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Episcopals have enough trouble keeping our own house in

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order without we being presumptuous enough to tell our

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good friends the Romans or our Baptist friends.

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As far as the constitutional aspect of it, I

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must admit I did not come here prepared for this. This

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was thrown at me at 10 o'clock this morning with the



 

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