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ACCEPT GOVERNORS PLAN ♦ — ■ Agreement Reached to Increase Tax on Kentucky Tracks. «. Strong Opposition Is Reported Against Bills to Do Away with Pari-Mutuel Betting. — «. — FRANKFORT, Ky.. February 84. — An agreement Ims heea reached by all parties cmi-iTin-ii whereby the 1 1 1 111 t -in :i l; -Drock bill-, im imh| tin- tax Mi race tracks t anpiailnalilj PR.W :i jnw, will be reported immediately :m l passed as promptly a* biiimIMf. Larly in I In- seasiea Uevernor Harrow indicated that, in order io rah** 1 1 ■ • - revenue muwaarj to carry out tar improve ait at* contemplated in his urogram, tin-re would have to be i -uiit.niti.il la-rrcasc in the tax na race tracks. At a i eaft i c at t in-ill acre i y the governor ami Malt .1. Winn, gea-rial manager of Ihe Kentucky Jockey club. Mr. Wtaa agreed to tin- plan submitted by tin- governor. it baa bii-ii tin- dealrc sad iatcatiaa of the lv-ntucky -locki-y Club to meet the administration tare than half way in any plan for tin- uniform taxation of tin* track--, which is i m bodied in the uiranmi. -ubmittcii bj Representative R. O. Huut--ni. in in haatac bill 1C7 anil by Senator Hiram M. Rrack in senate bill -.it!*. The track-, tin- admin -i-lral ion. the breeder- ami friends of racing niuni.g the leading DcaMCTatS of both bauaea in fait, all i lenient- concerned are in accord that these bills -liouiii Im- panned. As it i- neces-ary for revenue bills to originate in the house t hi- Hunt-man bill will be reported • •lit. probably tomorrow, by the committee on racing "otninKsion. while it is the general belief that the senate committee on agriculture and State fair, which has the Brack bill under consideration, will give it a favorable report, with the understanding that the Huntsman nu-a-iin- will be substituted for it when it comes over from the house and paesed, so a- to SSTC time. In connection with the racing situation there are p radial -11 n—ltlm of both houses bills known a- the Sims and McCandleaa act- designed to do away with the pari-mutucl system of Wagering on the Kentucky tracks. Tin- aari-meruels have been employed or the past twelve years |a Kentucky, having sii|iidanted the boakmakan who formerly plied their calling on the lace courses. Since the mutucls took the place of the book- raring ha- had a wonderful growth in Kentucky. The Sims bill, introduced by Senator II. II. Sim- • ■f .leffer-on County, i- u| for hearing this rreaiag before the committee on agriculture and state hit of the senate. advocates of this bill were heard at linj.Mli -nine time ag*. and today"- bearing will, naturally, fire a -iinilar lime to the defender- of raciag. A nunibi- of farmer- and harse breeder- from Fayette and aeighberiag i aaalh a are lure to present argaaaeats in faTar of the areaeat system of rae-1 1 1 lt .-inn ■gainst a reer-ion to bookmakiag, cither written or oral, or any other method which night follow tin- enactment of logi-lathm to do-troy the nnitiiel- and the -late racing comnii--ion. Advocate- of racing, it i- -aid. an- prepared to make -oiio- strung argument- in favor of the apart. Tiny are are pared to -how that tin- United States government, thnugh it- remount bureau, is making a stand agninsl any legislation inimical to the brcediag of tin- finest type- of bene*. It i- a wll known fact, established by nanteraas army tests, that the jsaatriar type of remount for officer-ami also the best type of artillery horses must have a -ub-lantial thoroughbred cross. These facts are well known by per-oii- who hare made a study of tin- aeeda of tin- army. These l» 1--011- do not want to -ee any legislation enacted Which would have a tendency to undermine the bloaaaUnh possibilities of tin- harse.
