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COMMENT ON MARYLAND SITUATION. n one here seems aide to tigure out just what is to be lone with the race track question. A few weeks ago it appeared that some sort of state regulation bill would be put through without delay. Todav it is uncertain whether there will be any legisiation on the subject at all. and this is just what the race track people want nothing. The Hammond bill, creating a state-wide commission, is still in the Ways and Means Committee: the Williams anti-gambling lull p,lll,il,,lKr; dlciarv Committee of the Senate, and the Hall anti-gambling bill is hanging on the second reading tile of the House after a hard struggle to get hat far Now conies talk of a racing commission bill Tor nne Arundel County, wherein is located the Laurel track, owned bv interests outside the state. 1 he bill lias been drawn, but it does not appear that nnv member of the Anne Arundel delegation is inxious to offer it. It is something similar to the hill that Governor Coldshorough vetoed two years i"0 It creates ji racing commission composed of Fx-Senator Bellis. Enoch Downs and Lawrence owens and provides for the collection of 1.", per It also permits the cmt tax on !-" receipts. running of racing in the spring, something that cannot now be done under the Anne Arundel local aw Annapolis Correspondent Baltimore News.
