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THE CHICAGO
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ONE CENT IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS, ELSEWHERE TWO CENTS.  41ST YEAR—277.           MONDAY, NOVEMBE
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WOMAN FLYER ENDS TRIP, L
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NEW TAX ON BASEBALL AS WAY TO INCREASE THE CITY'S INCOME
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Ald. Block of 9th Ward Proposes That the Cubs and Sox Teams Be Charged a Special License or Fee on Each game.
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Finance Committee Ordered to Find Additional Sources on Revenue to Meet Growing, Meritorious Municipal Needs in Framing Next Year's Budget.
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Demand that the Sox and the Cubs baseball clubs pay a good round tax to the city, beginning next year, was advanced by Ald. Eugene H. Block to-day. The alderman from the 9th ward believes this tax might take the form of a percentage of the gross receipts of Chicago's two major league ball teams, or it might be a flat fee charged for each game played at the Sox park and the Cubs park. Ald. Block was prepared to urge the inclusion of this tax in the next budget at a conference set for to-day between Comptroller Pike, who is now engaged in preparing a draft of the 1917 appropriation bill for the city, Ald. Richert, chairman of the finance committee, and himself.

This conference was arranged to take up suggestions for increasing the revenues of the city for the coming year. An order urging the necessity for a bigger income for Chicago to run its municipal government was introduced by Ald. Block at the last session of the city council and referred to the finance committee.

How Meet the New Demand?
Ald. Block's order is couched in the following terms:

"Whereas, numerous demands are made upon the city for additional expenditures caused by the meritorious needs of the 

goverment," said Ald. Block to-day before going to the conference with Chairman Richert and Comptroller Pike. "One way may be to reduce expenditures, while another is to see whether certain special licenses canot [[cannot]] be levied. One amusement which I believe should be forced to pay a share of the cost of local government in return for the undoubted privileges it enjoys is the professional baseball enterprise. We have two big professional baseball clubs in Chicago, and neither pay anything to the city, unless the baseball passes handed around the city hall can be considered in that light.
For myslef [[myself]] I can say that when I go to a ball game I pay my way. The games played by those two clubs here take $500,000 out of the city every year, and part of that money should be kept here.

"I have sent to Kansas City for a list of the licenses charged on all sorts of business there. I don't know whether they charge ball clubs a license there or not, but I am informed they have a more thorough licensing system in Kansas City than in any other big city in the country."

Morals Commission Union.
Chairman Richert of the finance committee did not express enthusiastic approval to-day of a plan attributed to Comptroller Pike to place the morals commission and that


DERBY DAY REVIVAL AIM OF CONFAB TO-DAY
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"Business Men's Association" to Interest Merchants Here in Plan.
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W. E. GOLDEN SECRETARY
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Drafts Bill for Legislature to Legalize Betting by the Pari-Mutuel System.
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Racetrack enthusiasts are busy with a conference in the Hotel LaSalle this afternoon in an endeavor to interest Chicago merchants and others in the propaganda to revice Derby days in Illinois. The conference was called by the Business Men's Association of Illinois, which is a more or less mysterious organization. William E. Golden appears as secretary, with headquarters in the Hotel Planters. Mr. Golden is known to the public as a candidate for the legislature on two different occasions, and he drafted the bill that was up for consideration in the conference.

Mr. Golden says the bill the business men are asked to support does not suit the owners of racetracks. He insists that is a point in its favor.

For Paris-Mutuel System.
The paris-mutuel system of betting is provided for in the draft of the bill. In that scheme the odds are made by the better, and all bets are posted. Mr. Golden is optimistic if members of the legislature are not. The men who have a vote on the proposition are fearful of criticism on the issue. The revival of the Derby at Hawthorne by Thomas Carey last summer added some stimulus to the campaign, but Carey is said to be against the bill.

The proposed bill calls for appointment by the governor of a state racing commission to be composed of three members, one familiar with trotting horses, one known as up on running horses and the third to be a breeder of horse flesh. The salary is fixed at $5,000 each. The license fees will pay the expenses and all surplus funds earned shall be used for the "care, education and maintenance of foundlings and orphans in the state."

Section to Legalize Betting.
Section 2 of the bill relates to mutuel ing. Here is the language:
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