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j I Kentucky racing hearing I Friends of Sport Make Strong Plea for Thoroughbred • at Frankfort. FRANKFODT. Ky . January 27.— Arguments for and against raciag were heard this afternoon b] the 1 senate committee oa judiciary, which met in the 1 baase af reareseatativen, la orde to acceaamodate the throng which jammed every lack af available space in seats, atolea, gallery and corridors. Pre . anent bersts of anptoase greeted the speakers, ami J ii was plainH apparent tn an unbiased shall let [ that four fifths of those preseat were in favor of raring. After beat tog each side far more than two . I oui- the committee adjourned, taking the bill . under .advisement: While ii i- generally believed that all five niemiii- of the committee an Jadiciary , are opposed to the bill ii is also understood that they will report the measure without an expresetoa . of .pinion, that it will take the regular course ot . bill-, be voted on. and utile-- indicntieaa fail Will lie rejected by the senate by a vole of 2 to 1. Those who spoke against racing were Helm Bruce. of LeeiavlUe, leader of the nati -racing movement, and chairman of ihe ••Commit I ee to Suppress Rncc [ Track Gambling"; William llevburn. a prominent business man of I.onisville. and the Rev. Dr. R. L. " McCieedy, dean of Christ Cbarch Cathedral, l.oui-ville. as well as the Rev. John A. I.ee. senator from 1 the Owen County district, who introduced the bill. Those who defended the sport were Judge Robert W. Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Times; Desha Rreckenridge, editor and publisher of the Lexington Herald; Charles B. Marvin, a representative farmer of Scott county, and George Hunt of Lexington, an attorney. Points of the opponents of racing were that there p should be no eyerie] exemption of race track betting, that it i- a moral issue and one not to be e confounded wiih the financial ends that some p thoroughbreds are eat paying as much taxes as ■ they are worth. They also charged that the pari-mntaris take in "more money" than the entire e tobacco business of Kentucky. Advocates of the sport challenged the claim that , lacing takes in more money than tobacco as an absurdity, and Judge Bingham made the point that ! Um tobacco growers of Kentucky received for their crap 70. OOO. KM less than the year before, showing that the tobacco crop is many times a greater interest than racing. Mr. Breckenridge charged that Mr. Bruce had 1 represented the Cella-Adler-Tilles syndicate in an effort to destroy the Chinn law. under which the slate racing commission operates and that, if he had aneeaedhn] in having it held ttneon-t itutional hy r the court of appeals, the bookmakers would have been broiignt back to Kentucky. "This drive on racing i- to have that effect if f successful." he added. Both editors. Mr. Bingham and Mr. Breckenridge. made the point that real morality was better served 1 bj the defeat than by the passage of the Li e bill. The extent of the breeding industry in Kentucky . was touched on and the tremendous depression of f the farming industry and the nece-sity of not destroying any ptesmst source of revenue, when an effort is lo lie made to lower the fanners taxes.
