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MURPHYS VIEW OF LOUISIANA SITUATION. Hamilton, Out. July 1. Joseph A. Murphy, manager of the Business Mens Racing Association of New Orleans, in speaking of the defeat of the racing bill in Louisiana, said: "We are perhaps lucky that the bill did not pass. My ideas on the mutuels are well known and I would have been delighted to have a bill legalizing them. However. Governor Pleasant is not opposed to racing, and to have saddled his administration at its inception with the responsibility for racing, through a commission appointed bv him, would, in my opinion, have been a serious blunder. The proper people to run race tracks are racing people and not those who arc-foisted on race tracks through political preferment. I hope some dav to see racing revived in Missouri, but if it is it will not be under a commission if 1 can prevent it. The clause in the bill limiting employees to residents of Louisiana was also a mistake. One or the chief assets of the United States is the claim that it is a free country. The constitution expressly forbids any state from passing laws that will curtail the liberty or any individual. Any statute that prevents a man whose efficiency has made him valuable to a corporation from obtaining employment simply because he is the citizen of another state is narrow, un-American and opposed to the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitution of the United States."
