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ACTION AGAIN DEFERKEd] INDICATIONS POINT TO NO RACING LEGISI.A- I TION IN MARYLAND. I Senate Sends All Bills on Subject to Committee on I Finance by Vote of IG to 10 and Lower House I Ad.iourns on Hearing oi Senate Vote. I Baltimore, m.i.. April 1.— With the senate race! truck bills shunted ol! in the nuance committee ami! the bouse Mils ii the subject sticking persistently I on the tilt- of the house at Annapolis, the indie. i I lions late today are t iiat the general assembly nil Maryland will adjourn without reacting any leglsla I lion dealing with the three big tracks in t i i i -~ sia I The as,cinli| will nexl Tuesday reach the «-ml I ot II- ninety days session — all that is allowed by I the consi itniioii and race track legislation appar-1 eatlj i- so hopelesslj involved thai it will hardly be I possible to uei amy action in the last throes oj the I bc-sloll. I A continuation of the present situation appears I to be sstiefactorj to the racing Interests sltl gh it Iheie i- to lie any further regulation I he Iim- I lico people waul a state commission and have indicated a w illiiigin-ss to pay a lu-avv tax. The other two tracks, Laurel and Havre do Grace, are pleading thai liny cannot afford to pay such a heavy tax, while those who are opposed to race track betting i in any form an arguing] that it is better for the I present situation lu continue for two more yearal than for the stale to go into implied pai niei ship I with the tracks through t-ie exaction of a tax. I If the house sits long enough, it may reach them Hall hill late tonight, probably after midnight, outl even if it does, it is now so late in the session lial it will he hard lo gel anything through to which there is strong opposition. Senator Campbell, chairman of the senate inane coinniil lee. in whose hands the senate race track !-station lie-, said today that ii is not ids Intention to let the Mil die in committee, hoi to hare a meet in;; and trj lo gel the state a better revenue from the tracks. He found ii Impossible lo get ids com mittee together ni the proposition today. People Interested in racing are well satisfied with the wa| tnin-. wetii last night. They could hardly nave hern better pleased than by the action of the senate -- in semtlttg lie- Williams birl and the Demon amendment In the lMiauetuunuitit tee and the prompt ac I i ii id t lii- liousfTafHPblili adjourning as soon a- the result of the rote in the senate became known. The Williams hill in the senate is identical with the Hall hill iii the bouse and the- Benson aue ndinriit provides, as docs tin- Hoffman amend -mi i i in the house, for a state-wide commission and n tax ol $:;.ihi|i per day on each track, with nine ty days ol racing i" be divided between them each year. Senator Benson has proposed a further amend mi a! cutting the tax hi x-j.oimi per day. The BSOtioa was made lo send 111;- hill to the tin ami- committee. Inasmuch as ii would affect slate finances. Senator Williams fought against the bill being seat hack to committee and Senator Harper Willi to his aid. till Hie roll call, however in, Mil went hack hy a rote of sixteen to ten. which -how- He- strength of the racing Interests in ih -senate Senator Harrison, who oied against the nice lack people a fee days ago. void for them last night, adding another vote to their strength. Tln-n. wilh the action of tin- senate known, the house dropped i|v utnl press of business ami adjourned. Delegate Hail made a tight to have bis nnti belting bill taken up in the bouse, but the ad jaiinincnl wa- voted despite his protest.
