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LOUISIANA RACING BILL IS BEATEN. Lower Branch of Legislature Indefinitely Postpones Measure by Vote of 55 to 50. Baton Rouge. La., .lime ft. — By a vote of BB to 50. the BeiaOardl racing commission hill was iudelinilcly postponed in the Louisiana House of Representatives at 5:15 oclock this afternoon after a legislative struggle extending over live weeks of the ses-ion. This kills the bill and ends all attempts to restore racjng in Louisiana at this session. lltindieds of business men from New Orleans and advocates of the Reinhurdt measure thronged the lobbies and rotunda of the capital all day. Feel ing was intense. When the measure was reported from commit Io. . Jose Getielly. leading Hie lighl on the floor, moved that it be engrossed and advanced to third reading. L. A. Fotitcnoi of St. Landry, moved to indefiiiil.-ly postpone. Tinn the battle of arguments started. It raged for Iwo hours before Ihe vote was taken. I a IxK-ke of Lake Charles, author of the Locke bill, which si years ago ended racing iu Louisiana, led the campaign against the Ueinhar.lt forces and spoke against the bill today. Last night over ." 00 advocates of the Reinlmr.lt bill made a demons rat ion before Ihe members of both branches of Ihe Louisiana Legislature and iin pressed upon them the attitude of the people of New Orleans toward the measure. When Im.IIi bouses met at S oclock they were tilled with the greatest lobby in their history. The pari BMItnel machine has been demons! rated iu a local hotel !••. the nasi lew days and won favor among the .•oitntry legislators. With Ibis and backed h. !ln petition of OSM 15,000 people ill New Orleans, the Citizens Committee fell sure that the bill would pa-* the House. Lean Locke, an ammauml of the measure, uj toed friends throughout the stale, in a last effort to block Ihe bill urging them to rush re-enforce-ineiits Io Baton Rouge to offset the Inroads of Hie race track advocates. Governor Luther K. Hall, while not saying so otlicially. let it be known that he would be guided by the wishes of the people in the matter, which was taken to mean that if the hill should pass he would sign it and not veto it. as he had stated he would. In response to a request from I. B. Rennysoii. Chairman of the New Orleans Business Mens Coin inittee for information com ernmg Ihe effect of Ihe pari -muttiel system of betting on horse races, .1. K. Cassidy. mayor of Lexington. K.y., wired the following to be read to the legislature: "The pari-niutuel system is proving entirely sat isfaciory as conducted under the Stale Racing Commission. Has elevated horse racing to a high plane. Inning eliminated the gamblers. Our breeders and owners would not return to the "Id way even if our law permit ted. Opponents of racing under the old system have become its friends under the new law." The New Orleans merchants left the capital to nighl for lunnc disgusted with the resnlls.
