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I i I 1 I - • - - t a I • I i - HALL BILL PASSES MARYLAND HOUSE. Annapolis, Md., March 29. The house today passed the Hall anti-race track betting biil and I it now goes to the senate, where the friends of I ra ing are counted on as being much stronger than i they are in the house. The vote was fifty-four to i forty. » M the second reading the vote had been sixty to forty, but some of the friends of the 1 ill were out of the chamber when it was called today. Delegate White spoke in favor of racing and charged that the blU was for the nif-poso ,,f f putting tic pari-mutuels out of business and in : ravor of the bookmakers. Those who ha • I ag Intents in charge at t Annapolis are still ..-• confident as ever and claim 1 that they have the situation v.ell in hand. They t saj tl they mad. no especial fight against the bill iii the house, but that when it censes up in 1 the senate they will disclose their fall strength. Senator Johnson, president of the Maryland S! io ! Fair at Laurel, who is an influential member of f tin- upper bouse, i in charge of tin situation for r tin- tracks and he is said to be entirely sure of f his ground.
