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MARYLANDS RACING BILL SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE ON THE POINT OF REPORTING A LICENSE MEASURE. Mack Difference of Opinion Exists as to the Sum to Be Exacted Daily from the Various Tracks. Annapolis, Ifd., March 13. — When the Kaate meets this evening 1 1n- finance committee expects tn have ready for it ■ racing 1 ■ill. All the race tracks, it seems, are ready to pay ■ Urease fee, hut :i difference p| opinion i ists concerning the amount of Uceaae t«. be charred. A fee f SS66 :s day would not, it is said. |« opposed by aaj one of the larger tracks, bat torn of the senator* think that ,000 would be a fair charre. This will probafaij have to be fought oat oa the floor of the enate. Oa the raeiag proposition tin re are la the legislature asm arho think race traeka should be abolished without regard to aay other coastdera-tions. Advocates of the revenue incisure aay there is mi widespread sentiment in the state against raeiag aad they argue that the people should go after the rereaoe. Boom of those looking for the reveaae argued .or a racing commissioes. Others oppose this, saying that raeiag commissions. Wherever instituted, assume all the aathority aad Ignore the directors of the race traeka, hence there i- .■: division of sentiment oa ahataat every phase of the problem. However, it is generally agreed that the bookmakers sboald be relegated to the scrap heap. Havre de Uruce has, it is said, arraaged to Install the pari-matael Machines for its af*mt. meeting, thus dosing the last Ktamping groaad of the bookmaker in Maryland. In this state there are, it is said, 1 1 u days of raeiag oa the mile tracks aad twenty days additional on the half-mile tracks. Ik in-- 132 days :ii 00 each would mean a revenue .•i 1916.sh8,000. This prohal ly will not satisfy the legislature. It I. as been counting on 00,000 as the minimum from the tracks. Those desiring more have been buttressed in their stand by the report that Pim-lieo is willing to pay ,000 aday.
