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KENTUCKY BREEDERS IN JOINT ACTION. Lexington. Ky.. February IS AJ a meeting of breeders of thoroughbred horses, merchants of Lexington and others having large property interests in central Kentucky, held at the Phoenix Hotel this afternoon. Milton Young, the owner of Mc Crathiaiia Stud. Charles H. Berryman. general manager of James B. Haggius Elinendorf Stud, and Major T. J. Carson, proprietor of Dlxiana Stud, were appointed by the chairman. George H. Ciay. as a committee to select one or more gentlemen from this state to lie present in Albany, X. Y.. next Wednesday at the public hearing on the But-Agnew bill, which contemplates the repeal of the Percy-Gray law, now in the hands of the codes committees of the Xew York legislature. The meeting was called at the suggestion of Colonel K. F. Clay of the Runny mede Stud in Bourbon county, and a letter was read from him regret ling his inability to lie present because of illness, and setting forth his belief that should the proposed bill become a law in Xew York state, the property values in this slate would depreciate from twenty Uve to fifty per cent, as a direct consequence. Expressions were had from some twenty or thirty others, and it was the sense of the gatheriug that Colonel Clay had not underestimated the loss to Kentucky that the passage of this measure would entail. It was emphasized that tlie sense of the meeting was not a desire on the part of the citizens of Kentucky to dictate as to legislation ■ ill Xew York, but tlie gentlemen should be requested to go from hen simply to impress the far reaehiug detrimental cfTcets of the proposed legislation. The names of former Inited States Senator .1. 6. Blackburn. Major Phillip P. Johnston. pr sident of the National Trotting Association. Colonel J. K. Allen, an able barrister. Milton Young, probably the most widely known and influential breeder of liiorouglihred horses in the state. Major Thomas J. Carson and Major A. Daingerfichl. th • courteous gentleman from Virginia, who. as the director of the affairs at Castlotou Stud, enjoys the reputation of lieing one of the most successful conjoiners of thoroughbred blood lilies in the world, have been suggested and from these the committee will doubtless make its selection of representatives. Among those present at the meeting were: Mayor John Skain. Desha Br ckenridge. Milton Young. C. IL Berryman, Jouetl Shouse, Dixie Knight, o. P. Kandolph. G. D. Wilson. Thomas F. Kelly. John Todd. Thomas IMan. Van Shipp. Hart Talbot. Thomas W. Moore. S. K. Hughes. L. IV Tarlton. George H. Clay. Dr. M. M. Leech, Walter irater. John Simpson. i r. J. 1. Xeet. Charles W. Moore. John Ireland. W. A. Smith. Major F. A. Daingerfield. Catesby Woodford. John I. Carr. O. H. Chenaull. John McClintock. James L. Watkins. J. Will Say re. Dan T. Morris. William Talbert, F.dward Kane. J. W. May. Fletcher V.. Driver. John S. Barbee. Thomas II. Clay. Of ge Stoll. Duncan Gibson. Thomas J. Carson and Woodford Clay.
