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PROPOSE TAX ON RACING Bill in Louisiana Legislature to Levy Tax of ,000 on Race Tracks Is Favored. NEW ORLEANS, La., June 18.— With the unexpectedness of a bolt from a clear sky and at a time when racing legislation during the current session of the Louisiana State legislature was supposedly suppressed and dormant for at least another year, comes a favorable report from a sub -committee in the house on city affairs, which would levy a tax" of $;:.000 annually on each track in operation within the state. The sub-committee composed of Representatives Dobbins, Fernandez, Williams, Heilly and Gruenwich, in making its report on the amusement tax bill, embodied therein provisions for the annual ,000 tax on racing associations. The report was approved by the general committee. The monies to be derived from the proposed tax. along with those gathered from assessments on baseball games, professional and semi-professional boxing exhibitions and dog racing, would be used for the maintenance of the charity hospital in New Orleans. Political leaders of the Crescent City, and particularly those who have the interests of the thoroughbred competition at heart, are of the opinion that rather than have a long and extended fight with proponents of anti-racing legislation at the next session, which at this time seems inevitable, that it would be best that the proposed tax to be enacted into law. thereby blocking any future at-temps of the reformers to impede or do away entirely With the sport in the state.
