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MISSOURI BILL IS FRAMED MOVEMENT WELL UNDER WAY FOE RESTORATION OF RACING IN THAT STATE. New Track to Be Built at Kansas City if Measure Becomes Law Judge Murphy Makes Statement Regarding New Orleans Situation. St. Louis, Mu., December 2. Joseph A. Murphy, who hits been at Kansas City in the interest of tiu racing bill that he will present to the coining Missouri legislature, arrived home today and reported that the situation in the city on the Kaw was most encouraging. Judge Murpuy said: "The better class of inerenants in Kansas City will aid in the revival of the sport there. The American Royal Cattle .Show must get out of the stock yards, and it is probable that it will find a home witii the proposed new track. I saw enough to know that the whole thing can be financed in a tew days there. We will have a solid vote in the legislature of members from there for the bill." Judge Murphy has opened ollices in the Syndicate Trust Building and installed W. D. Cave, formerly treasurer of the Klaw and hrlanger forces, in charge. He has had 5,000 copies of his proposed bill printed for distribution ami will start a whirlwind canvass to complete his organization before the legislature meets. He hopes to have 2,500 stockholders by January 1. He denounced as untrue statements made at New Orleans by persons who sought to disrupt the movement for the revival of racing that he had leased any privileges to Chas. Smith or anyone else. "I am the pad employee of the Business Mens Association of New Orleans and would no more think of selling any privilege without consulting them than 1 would think of selling the Grunewald Hotel." he said. "I expect that the Supreme Court of Louisiana is still intact and that the law of that state is stil what the court says it is. I have not heard that it has assigned to an expatriated press agent or a professional gambler the task of interpreting the Locke law. it is only a few years back that we carried a case from Jefferson parish to the Supreme iVurt under this same Locke law. District Attorney Marrero had said that we were not violating the law. The governor said we were, and forced MjUCcro ta recuse .himself and .sent St. Clair Adams. ,"" the district attorney of Orleans, to prosecute us. The court bitterly denounced the whole proceeding ami throw the case out of court. It said that to the district attorney and the grand jury alone was delegated the power to say whether an information should lie and that the district attorney could nor shed his responsibility as he would his coat. Ami further that when public clamor was the loudesi was the time when of all others he should not shiru his duty. It further inferred that the governor had used his office as an instrument of oppression. Coa-cluding it said: That the system of betting as carried on at Suburban Park is a llagraut violation of law is the language of counsel and not of this court, nor is it clear to this court that the law was violated, and we are glad that we are not called on to decide it. " Judge Murphy leaves tomorrow for New Orleans confident that the racing situation in the west is brighter than it has been in many years. The racing bill that will be introduced in the legislature provides for the incorporation of associations to conduct contests of speed and endurance, to encourage the display of live stock agriculture, and further provides that no hookmaking or auction pools will be permitted on the grounds of the society, but that when horse racing is carried on for a period not to exceed thirty days in any one year, at least live days of which shall be exclusively f t harness racing, the directors of the society are authorized to arrange members or co-operative pools on such races, with a reasonable deduction for the purpose of providing suitable purses as prizes.
