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RACING BILL UP TO MARYLAND SENATE. Annapolis, Md.. March 31. — The statewide racing issue will occupy the senate tomorrow night and possibly on Sunday. The Hall anti-racing bill, drawn to wipe out all betting on races in Maryland, officially reached the senate this afternoon and was referred to the finance committee on condition that the latter return a re| ort tomorrow afternoon at two oclock. The issue will then be sharply drawn and an effort will be made to substitute a statewide racing commission revenue bearing bill for the anti-racing legislation. Senator Frick has introduced a bill creating such a commission and licensing nice tracks, with the view of returning a revenue of 00,000 or more each year to the state treasury. The house has already voted adversely on the latter proi»osition. following an effort by the ways and means committee to substitute the Frick bill as an amendment to the Hall measure. The house voted down the proposed amendment and then passed the original Hall bill by a safe majority. For weeks it has been conceded that the real fight on racing at this session of the legislature would come in the senate. There are in the latter body a number of men who believe that racing should be continued in Maryland under proper conditions and that it should be made to yield a handsome revenue to the state treasury. When the Hall bill came up for consideration in the upper branch of the legislature today, senator Williams of Cecil, who had introduced a similar anti-racing measure, made a motion that the Hall bill be made a special order for tomorrow at two oclock without reference to committee. He withdrew this motion, however, when members of the finance committe publicly pledged themselves to bring the bill out of committee at the desired hour tomorrow. i I . . , 1
