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RACING IN NEW ORLEANS IS SAFE BATON ROUGE La July S The Johnson bill Intended to make it unlawful iu Louisiana to pub ¬ lish or circulate in any way racing charts en ¬ tries or other racing information met its death here yesterday when the senate committee indef ¬ initely postK ned it itThe The general assembly convenes here today and with hundreds of other bills all waiting to come up the chances are against the Johnson bill get ¬ ting a rehearing and unlikely to pass if it did didWith With the death of tho Johnson bill the present session of the legislature which marked the in ¬ auguration of Governor John M Parker has come to a close without one bit of legislation aimed at racing racingA A bill was passed prohibiting the operation of a gambling room house or place and containing clauses which sKll the deathknell of handbooks but it is the general belief here that this measure was a common sense one
