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ANOTHER MARYLAND BILL Senator Norris Offers Measure to "Put Teeth" in Burke Law. RALTIMORE. Md.. March 24.— A new race regu-bltion bill has been put in the senate by President William I. Norris in the form of amendments to the Riirke law. designed in the main to put "teeth" in that measure. The bilis main points provide: First: That the maximum number of racing days shall be seventy-two a year instead of 100, as "at present. Second: That the daily license fees shall be ?10,000 instead of S6.000. as at present, and that the 15 per cent provision on net profits be abolished. Third: That Ss.0.000 of the revenue received from the daily license fees be distributed to agricultural fairs throughout the state. II also requires that two of the members of the Rieiug Commission must personally supervise racing each day at the tracks. [TBder the Norris bill the Racing Commission shall appoint all the stewards and officers of the meeting, instead of naming only one steward and simply approving the officers of the meet, as at present. Tin- inaaaaca of licenses to jockeys or trainers by the commission is made mandatory by the Norris bill, and if the commission should revoke any such license the licensees shall have the right of appeal to the Baltimore City Court. All race officials and officers appointed by the commission must be bona fide residents of Maryland under the bill. When the Redwell Shilling controversy was at its height last year members of the commission and Attornc J -Oeaieral Armstrong remarked that the Burke bill lacked "teeth" in many of its provisions. ♦ a
