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BUTLERS PLEA FOR A LICENSE. .Tames Butlers application for license to hold a ; aneettag at the Respire City track was heard by the State Baring Commission in New York Saturday, and was taken under advisement. The Commission gave no intimation as to what its report will be. The Empire City track is located at Yonkers and waa completed at a cost of . .soo.000 by the Empire "City club, which v. a-- organised in 1S*9. James Bunnell Soley appeared as attorney for Mr. Butler and made the argument for him before the Commission. Mr. Soley said in the course of his •argument: •Within a small radius of the track there is a population of 500.000. exclusive of the millions in Creator New York. There Is every reason why the track should have a license and the past discrimination lias been based on nothing tangible or real. Cive us a trial, and if WJ fail. it is in tlie power of the Commission to revoke the license.
