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APPOINT COMMITTEE NEXT MONDAY FRJ v KFOR ! Ky . a nt of be committe on the racing commission, which wUI ler the lull aimed at the pari-mntuel metboih of betting, which, if passed idvocates of racing contend wonld bring the bookmakers buck to the - been postponed until ww Monday by Speaker James II. Thompson of Boar boa County. Mr, Thompson -aid that be would nam.- all of bis 1 mitte - Monday, - the all im- portant committee on roles, which will have charge airs during he final ta enty da] ■ af t ii-ssio 1 Senator Joha A. Lee of Owen i maty is being ■ 01 nted on by the aat « te lead heir ghl in ibe upper branch. He .- a Democrat, a Baptist minister, and also una beea engaged in th" business of buying and seUiag tobacco. Mr. Lee was in the House of Representatives two years ago. That the . icing bill will be considered by ■ committee entirely fi ontro] by either nkne was indicated by the announcement ol paHrj by Senators William A. Perry, LouisviUe. president pro tem of the senate and Robert C Simmons of Covington, who selected the rammlttrra This policy is that no senator who bad been employed at ■t race track should h Id BMmberahip on the committee oa agriculture aad state fairs, which is to- : c eiv e the lull. An eatimata ..f sentiment in the senate made i.v 1 » • - n t : .i 1 observers indicates thai the anti-racing bill nil] be defeated by practically the bbsjm bm • ■iity as defeated II two y 1 - ago, unless than 1-. a :ia:k" ! change ia sentiment.
