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KENTUCKY RACING COMMISSION FUNDS Should Bo Turned Over to the State Is Report of Examiner to Governor Morrow MorrowFRANKFORT FRANKFORT Ky June S The State Racing Commission should turn over to the state the money collected by the commission anil there is now dm the state 1382202 is tiie report of State Inspector and Examiner James made to Governor Morrow In the general fund there are 454I3 in Lberty l mls r 00 and in a stallion fund 110804 Since E J Stoll became secretary the hooks show that he has on hand a balance to the credit of the general funds amounting to 3ir705 making the net balance due the state 1382202 1382202Since Since the creation of the commission its mem ¬ bership has iRen made up of some of Kentuckys distinguished citizens and horsemen and so far as the records show or information obtained the conduct of the commissioners and secretaries has been good goodThe The racing commission has never been Identi ¬ fied as a department of the state government and why its relations have not been move closely inter ¬ woven as a sister department I do not know sivs Mr James The reixirt is the first made on the commission in the fourteen years that it has been in existence existenceThe The law creating and the courts construction of its provisions make it jKrfectly clear that it i a state department says Mr James JamesIn In 1915 the different racing associations of the state offered to donate 5000 to the racing com ¬ mission for the purchase of thoroughbred stallions to improve the breeding of horses in Kentucky The offer was accepted and upon the recommenda ¬ tion of Prof J J Hooper chief of the bureau of animal husbandry a number of stallions were purchased nine of which are still in tile hands of the commission With the prices of corn liny and oats so high Inspector James says there is a dis ¬ position on the part of the keepers to turn them back to the state and he recommends that Prof HOOIMT be consulted about the proper course to pursue pursueInspector Inspector James commends the commission for raising 300000 for the American Red Crjiss When the 00000 was distributed to the various Red Cross chapters there remained a balance of 301754 in bank which Inspector James did not treat as funds belonging to the state
