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TEST VOTE IN MARYLAND SENATE. Aiinaixjlis, Md., March 11. By a vote of 10 to 10, the Senate yesterday voted down a proposition, aimed to bring about the abolition of racing at Havre de Grace. Surrounding the vote are circumstances that preclude it from representing absolutely the seutiment of the Senate on race track legislation, but it is believed approximately to do so. The action was taken on an unfavorable report from the Committee on Judicial Proceeding on the bill repealing the act creating the Harford Couuty Racing Commission. In making a motion for substitution Senator Williams said that the sentiment in his county Cecil was such that all the candidates of both parties pledged themselves to vote Tor repeal legislation. "Harford," said Senator Archer, "Has its racing commission and so has Baltimore County and other counties. There is a bill here to abolish all racing in the state, and a day has been fixed for a public hearing on that subject. That is one matter, this is another. The people of Harford have a right to object to having it singled out while other counties are permitted to do as they please." The Baltimore News on Monday printed the following from its legislative correspondent at Annapolis: "Signs point to interesting times over the pending race track bills now iu the Legislature. The time limit under the rules of the House of Delegates on the Hall anti-gambling bill lias more than expired and if 15 members of the House deujatid that the bill be retried out the committee will have to reoort. It was broadly intimated today that such a" demand will be put before the House. The only thing to prevent it will be a report of some kind on the part of the committee. "The bill, now in the hands of Chairman Hoff-mau of the House Judiciary Committee, has already been indorsed on the back. Favorable report by the Committee on Judiciary, and if the committee changes front it will have to have the indorsement scratched out. It "was intimated today tltat a majoritv of the members of the committee were at heart against the bill, hut they have not thus far gone on record. The only one who has voted against it is Delegate Mcintosh of Baltimore Comity, though Delegate Frick of Baltimore city has said that he is against it. If the bill gets out on the floor there will be some fun. ... "While the Piinlico people have asked for a hearing there Is considerable curiosity as to why they have waited so long. Of course auy delay in the reporting of a bill decreases its chance of being finally passed. ... , - "The couiiuitee of Baltimore citizens who demand that the bill be passed have asked for a hearing before the Senate Committee on Judicial Proceedings and not before the House Committee because the House Committee has already voted a favorable "Meanwhile there is also pending in the House Judiciary Committee the Mitchell bill to put out ot business the Havre de Grace race track, while the Senate Judiciary Committee hag before it the Williams bill of like tenor, another bill by Senator Williams similar to the Hall bill, and the statewide racing commission bill of Senator Hammond. All of these bills seem to have been given chloroform or some other sleeping iotion and indications are that nothing short of a dynamite explosion or an earthquake shock will arouse them. "The race track owners are pleased -with the efforts that are being made to prevent the creation of a state commission. They now have all the regulations they want. All they ask Is that present conditions he let alone. And, as to the Hall bill, thev think that they have enough political influence to kill it."
