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PROTEST APPROPRIATION CUT Proposed Reduction of 8,053 in New York Commission Budget Held Unwarranted. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 21. Protest was made yesterday by Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, against the report of the legislative fiscal committee, which, in recommending various reductions in the state budget, has proposed that the commissions appropxuation for 1939 be reduced 8,053 from last year, about 22 per cent. Chairman Swopes protest took the form of a letter to Senator George L. Thompson, chairman of the Senate finance committee, and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, chairman of the ways and means committee, in which he said in part: "May I call your attention, in the first place, to the fact that the three members of the racing commission, Messrs. John Hay Whitney, John Sloan and myself, serve without any salary whatsoever. Our personal expenses have averaged, over five years, little more than .00 per day. "Your committee is quoted as reporting: In the racing commission some astounding non-statutory salaries are paid. Mention then follows of the chief stewards salary, his assistants salary and the salary of the supervisor of saliva tests. "I beg to urge upon your attention that there is Ho provision in the civil service lists for any one of the three posts mentioned; that each is a post of essential importance to racing and requiring the employment of a trained specialist; and that none of the salaries paid is as high as the salaries of similar officials in other important racing states. "While the New York steward receives 0 per day, state racing stewards elsewhere receive from 5 to 00 per day. For example, the stewards of Illinois, Massachusetts and Rhode Island receive 00 per day.
