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KENTUCKY REJOICING Friends of Racing Elated Oven Defeat of Bennett Bill. - . Details of How Measure Repeal- ing Pari-Mutuel Law Met Its Doom in Senate. 9 LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22. There wa3 great rejoicing today all over Kentucky, particularly in the Blue Grass regions, over tho action of the state senate late yesterday afternoon in defeating the Bennett anti-pari-mutuel bill, which, if enacted into law, would have been the death knell of thoroughbred, breeding and racing in Kentucky. The delegations of breeders, turfmen anil others interested in the production of tho horse and the necessary impetus to that industry, the great sport of racing, who journeyed to Frankfort to protest against tho wanton destruction of one of the largest anil most flourishing industries of, the state, returned to their homes elated over the overwhelming defeat of the reformers in their effort to ban racing from the state. More details are now available of how tl:a Bennett measure met defeat yesterday. Tho bills doom was forecast by an adverse report of the committee on Kentucky Statutes No, 1 Thursday morning when Senator R. C. Simmons, Covington, presented to the senate, a report, signed by all members of his committee, except Senator Walter D. Dycus, witli. expression of opinion that the bill should not pass. Signing this majority report wem Senators Simmons, chairman, Griffin Kelly,. H. F. Green, Arch Hamilton, Lewis Ryana and J. S. Hazelden. TOTE THAT 3CILLED BILL. The vote which killed the bill was uporc motion of Senator John A. Lee, author of the anti-pari-mutuel bill in 1022, to substitute the minority for the majority report and. to give the bill its second reading thereby and so place it on the calendar. This motion, failed to carry 14 to 24, with every member of the senate voting as follows: Voting for the motion for advancement of the bill Democrats: Bell, Caywood, Dycus, James, Kinneard, Lee, McElroy, Porter, Rash, Reynolds 10. Republicans: Garner, Moss, Trusdell, White 4-. Total, 14. Voting against the motion for killing tho bill Democrats: Atwood, Bright, Dacher Davis, Duffy, Green, Hamilton, Kelly, Muster, Perry, Simmons, Stephenson, Whitaker, Welch, Young 15. Republicans: Brock, Clark, Cline, Demunbrum, Flener, IIazelden Mays, Ryans, Tabor 9. Total, 24. Following the reports of the various committees Thursday morning, when the Bennett bill was reported and when Senator Dycus motion was made, tho senate recesseil for an hour for lunch. The crowds, then in the senate chamber, were augmented by visiting ladies, occupying" chairs on both sides of the chamber, and, men in the galleries and also state officials,, when the senate reconvened in the afternoon.. The speaking began in The afternoon before a tensely quiet chamber, and the impassioned addresses of Senator Lee and Senator McElroy for the bill and then Senator W. A. Perry against the Dill, and Senator Pali Garner and J. R. Rash followed. The arguments took considerable time. Following Senator Rashs argument Senator Hiram Brock moved the previous question, and the vote followed. The senate then adjourned over, to Monday afternoon.
