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LOWERS TAX ONE YEAR ONLYl Monroe Bill Passed by Illinois Senate Confines Fairmounts 00 Daily Fee to 1937. SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 24. The Monroe bill, limiting to the year 1937 only earlier legislation to permit operation of Fair-mount track, near Collinsville, at a reduced daily tax fee, was passed by the Illinois senate today. It now goes to the house. The bill was brought in to comply with the wishes of governor Henry Horner, who permitted the earlier bill, sponsored by representative A. B. Lager, democrat, Car-lyle, to become a law without his signature. The Lager bill cut the tracks daily license fee from ,000 to 00 a day and increased, the tracks "take" from pari-mutuel betting to nine per cent. It fixed no date for expiration of these provisions to the track. The governor permitted it to become law,, although favoring such a plan for one year only. -The Monroe bill, superceding the Lager measure, was Introduced in deference to, his views.
