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1 I k I ■ I i . ; ■ r J KENTUCKY COMMISSION TO RULE l.KXINCTON. Ky.. March !l. The -, ction ill the race track license bill giving to the Kentucky Jockey Club, rather than the State Bacing Commission. the right to fix the amount of purses ami added money io -take-, to which Messrs. Them at C McDowell and J. O. Kcene. members of the coiniiiis-- sion. raised objections, is to be stricken out. according to information received here today from Frankfort. The section requiring a daily license of ,5M t ! i . be paid to the -tat i or before December 1 of each yeat will stand . Several conferences were held with Covernor Edwin 1". Morrow before an amicable agreement f wa- reached. The mo-: important one of these want the home of former Inited States Senator Johnson N. Camden, near Versailles. Sunday afternoon. It was attended by Govern** Morrow. Senator Cam- den. Major McDowell and K. F. Simms. The last named two are said to have made it t quite emphatic that they would rather see the race tracks closed than to see tin- powers of the Ken- tacky State Racing Commission curtailed as under the bill introduced by State Senator Hiram B. Bock, which is said to have been written by Maurice Calvin of Covington. Messrs. McDowell and Simms re- , jected such compromises as were suggested and Stood out for the elimination of the section from the inn. The agreement for its elimination was reached j at a conference at the governors office yesterday in which Messrs. Calvin. Winn. McDowell. Simms and Keene participated. , It is provided in the agreement that there shall . lie no cut in tic- purses unless it is shown that the Kentucky Jockey Club has so unprofitable a year that it cannot pay its license tax without resorting io that extremity.
