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House approves its gambling bill

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) After a debate that became partisan, the Indiana House has approved and sent to the Senate a bill to legalize off-track betting on horse races and reform the state’s bingo law. Representatives in the Democratic-controlled House voted 53-46 on Tuesday in favor of House Bill 1050, which now goes to the Republican-held Senate. THE MEASURE sponsored by Rep. B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, would make major changes in the pari-mutuel law enacted in 1989 and the bingo law approved a year later. Under H.B. 1050, the operator of a horse racing track could open two off-track betting facilities, where people could watch televised races and place bets in a theater-type setting. Once those facilities were es- : tablished, two more off-track facilities not owned by a track operator could open. I The bill also lowers the state tax on betting handle, the total amount of wagers taken at a track or off- - track facility. The rate, currently 4 • percent, would drop to 2 percent at tracks and to 2.5 percent at offtrack parlors. : SUPPORTERS OF the measure, which has the backing of : the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, say it is needed to encourage development of a race track. A track couldn’t survive financially under the 1989 law, potential developers say. While the horse racing provisions mark a major change in policy, most of the debate focused on the bingo provisions, which were attached the horse bill during a committee hearing last week. * Bauer said the bingo law changes are designed to put professionally operated games out of business and give bingo back to small charities that were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the 1989 law legalizing the games. IN HIS HOME area, Bauer estimated that professionally run games get over 90 percent of the profits from bingo games. “The charities are dying and these people (professional operators) are getting rich,” Bauer said. “We need to protect the small groups, the churches, the Little Leagues,” said Rep. Craig R. Fry, D-Mishawaka. Under the bill, the prize limit for one day’s set of bingo games would be reduced from SIO,OOO to $5,000, only two day’s worth of bingo games could be held at one site each week and the Indiana Lottery Commission would be given authority to regulate bingo operators and vendors who sell products for the games. CURRENTLY, THE secretary of state’s office registers bingo operators but has limited legal authority to punish violations of the bingo law. Republicans seized on the shift of regulatory authority to the lottery and attempted to make it a partisan issue. On the final vote, 48 Democrats and only five Republicans voted for the measure; 43 Republicans and three Democrats voted against it. “I think this gives too much authority in the lottery commission,” said Rep. John S. Keeler, RIndiana polis.

Vicar General chosen to run Catholic archdiocese

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis will be managed by the Rev. David E. Coats until the pope chooses a successor to Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara. On Tuesday, the Board of Consuitors, a panel of priests, elected Coats as administrator of the archdiocese. COATS, VICAR general of the archdiocese, was with O’Meara when the archbishop died Friday of a chronic lung disease. O’Meara was 70. It could be several months before Pope John Paul II names a new archbishop. Coats, 43, a native of Indianapolis, will administer the Catholic Church’s affairs for 200,000 Roman Catholics in 39 central and southern Indiana counties. COATS, SON of George T. and Catherine Coats of Avon, was educated at the former Latin School of Indianapolis and at St. Meinrad College and School of Theology in southern Indiana. He completed a degree in church law in Rome in 1988.

How they voted: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here is the roll call by which the Indiana House approved on Tuesday a bill allowing off-track betting on horse races and changing the state’s bingo law: VOTING YES (53) DEMOCRATS (48) Avery, Bailey, Barnes, Bauer, Beck, Bischoff, Boatwright, Bodiker, Bottorff, Bowser, Brown, Cochran, Crawford, Crosby, Day, Denbo, Dobis, Dvorak, Eddy, Fry, GiaQuinta, Goble, Goodall, Gregg, Grubb, Harris, J.Hays, Heeke, Howard, Hric, Hume, Kearns, Kinser, Klinker, Kromkowski, Kruzan, Leuck, Larry Lutz, Matonovich, McConnell, Phillips, Robertson, Sabatini, Smith, Tincher, Webber, Wilson, Wolf. REPUBLICANS (5) Bulen, Donaldson, Jones, Jack Lutz, Robbins. VOTING NO (46) DEMOCRATS (3) Cheatham, Cook, R.Hayes. REPUBLICANS (43) Adams, Aiderman, Ayres, Bales, Bayliff, Becker, Bosma, Bray, Brinkman, Budak, Buell, Burton, Conlon, Cottey, Davis, Dellinger, Engle, Espich, Fesko, Fox, Gabet, Goeglein, Hoover, Keeler, Kruse, Linder, Mangus, Mannweiler, Mock, Musselman, Nelson, Newkirk, Pond, Pool, Roorda, Ruckelshaus, Schmid, Scholer, Stephan, Turpin, Warner, Wolkins, Young. NOT VOTING DEMOCRAT— Villalpando.

HE POINTED out that the lottery could investigate and revoke bingo licenses and have sole authority over who would be permitted to sell bingo materials. Rep. Chester F. Dobis, D-Mer-rillville, said the lottery was chosen “because we don’t want to create a new bureaucracy and we don’t want to train people to do something” that personnel of the louery are already capable of doing. Republicans also attempted a procedural move to divide the vote on the bill, suggesting one vote on the pari-mutuel section and a separate vote on the bingo provisions. House Speaker Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, turned down the request. EARLIER TUESDAY, another major gambling measure was debated in a House committee but a vote was delayed on the proposal to allow gambling on riverboats. Bauer, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said his panel would vote on the measure Thursday if supporters of the measure come up with amendments to answer questions lawmakers and others raised. Bauer said he wants the measure rewritten so it’s clear that riverboat gambling could be conducted only on the Ohio River. As the measure is currently written, it would allow gambling on navigable waterways, which would include Lake Michigan and a portion of the Wabash River.

O’Meara appointed Coats vicar general of the Indianapolis archdiocese and pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in 1989. O’Meara’s body will lie in state in the cathedral today. Joseph Cardinal Bemardin of Chicago will preside over a funeral Mass for O’Meara at 11 a.m. Thursday. Bishop Daniel Buechlcin of Memphis will be the homilist. Buechlein previously was president and rector at St Meinrad College. FOLLOWING THE Mass, O’Meara’s body will be interred in the mausoleum in the chapel of Calvary Cemetery on the city’s south side. Memorial Masses were scheduled at noon today and 8 a.m. Thursday. O’Meara served as president of the Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services from 1987 until last September. He also was national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, which provides aid to needy churches outside the United States, from 1967 to 1980.

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