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FOUST LAW NOW IN QUESTION. Whether or not Tcniiessenns are to be permitted to go to the tracks and make their wagers as of old. will be known within the next sixty days, ac-cording to the belief of the officials of the New Memphis Jockey Club, who have resorted to court proceedings to test ihe validity of the Foust law. enacted by the last legislature. Preliminary scaring «:i bad last week and an appeal to the Supreme Court was taken. Every effort has been made by attorney-, acting for the Jockey club to hurry the proceedings to the higher tnbiiic and a final ieclatoa Is expected at the June term of the Supreme Court. "Although there arc few laymen that advance o|Miiioii tut the Foost law or its const itutionali:y . legal opinion from the highest toareea in this state has been given the Jockey club nanilala which earned them to take the Mm they have mapped out." aaya I Memphis di p.u h. "It is said that a fellow legislator on the beat of terms with Senator Foust. the lather of the nitaaaie, attempted to Prevail on him at the time it wa- introduced to alter certain clauses which seemed unlikely to hold when taken before Ihe Supreme judges. "The law as it stands today prohibits poolsclling in all forms mi any hone race within or without an incloMire. whether held within the state of Ten jiessee or outside the state, and on Jaal what grounds the attorneys will base their contention of ancon-btitutionalily will net be known lor several days. "By appealing t the Supreme ■uirt two years ago, friends of raetag 111 Teiine-.-oo succeeded in knocking out the auti racing measure known then as the Kicel.igon law. A mere technicality saved Ihe SJHMt at that time."
