The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-03

time all lotteries are prohibited in the State.
provided BY law 70 be paid BY Vt the Louisiana
visions Of its charter. granted fl the year 1868.
leans and the charter Of said company ID recog-
nized as q contract binding on the state for the
period herein specified except Its monopoly
ye s b neshy 81 s a al
hereby declared null and void: pronided, said
company shall file written rennncia,ion OF all
its monopoly fea tires In I'll office of the Score
tary Of State within sixty days after the ratihea
tiUn OF this constr utiOn.
OF the additional sums raised by licenses on
celye ten thousand dollars annually an the re-
naming sum shall be divided each year among
the several parishes In the State for the benefit
OF their schools.
Delegate Robertson, In behalf Of the major
ity Of the committee, moved the adoption OF
the article.
Delegote Todd, on behalf Of the minority of
the committee, moved the adoption OF the ar
ticla reported by the minority, as follows
ART. . NJ lottery shall be authorized bv this
tickets within the State ie prohibited
Delegate Parlange moved to strike out the
article reported by the majority. He was sur
prised that the committee should have re-
ported such an ordinance. The last Lpgisla-
ture had passed law abOlishinR the existing
lottery, on the ground that It was an inn
moral institution. 1t was one Of the very
worst species Of gambling. It was now pro-
posed to extend lottery privileges. Ii the ar
ticle was adopted, the debasing. influences Of
such institutions would be felt In every par
support any such article.
Delegate Vance moved to amend the article
as follows: Lottery privileges are hereby
granted to any person or persons. who may
upon the payment into the treasury 81 the
State the sum OF $4O.O0O.o
Delegate Luekett moved to amend by in
serting "iifty' IN place Of forty
lature abolshing the charter Of the Loulsi-
uncons titntional by the United States Dis
trict Court. The article reported by the com
mittee was faulty, because It looked to lot
terry monopoly. This was the objectionable
feature Of the present lottery. He favored
the amendment Of the delegate from Bossier,
because 1t did not leave the matter discre-
tiOnary with the Legislature to grant lottery
charters, but provided that all who wished to
establish lottery company could do 80 on
paying for the privilege.
Delegate Cunningham moved to amend the
amendment by providing that the lottery
license should be fixed at 100000 He under
stood that there were two other companies
which were ready to give that sum for the
teries, let II get all it could from them. The
last Legislature, fresh from the people and
acting under instruction, had abolished the
present lottery. He denied that the matter
had been settled BY the decision Of Judge
Billings, and believed that the Supreme Court
would overturn It. He hoped the article
would be defeated, but IL 1t was to be adopted
he hoped his amendment would be incor-
porated In 1t.
The amendment was accepted by Delegate
Vance.
Delegate Bridger hoped the original article
would be adopted. II lotteries were to be
the article, as reported, was as
near perfect as it could be. He lived In New
Orleans for some time before the war, and
although there was stringent law against
the sale of lottery tickets, they were sold
everywhere on the streets, and no one was
arrested. More money was then expended
for lottery tickets than at the present time,
and yet the State did not receive q cent for 1t.
In 1866 the Democratic Legislature, recognize
Ing that the old law could not be enforced,
provided that lottery license should be col
lected Under that law the sum Of only $1O-
300 was collected, only one license being
t tkt;, out' IL. p ls6s the LEGISLATURE S.
and had received from that time t to tie
present $40 900 year, or total OF
s4OO, 900, which has gone to the support of the
Charity Hospital. He did not believe that
people could be legislated into good morals.
LII an article was presented to put down all
kinds Of gambling, and not make diserimi-
nation against lotteries. he might support 1t.
But this was not proposed to be done. The
opposition to the lottery by the mass OF the
people, If such opposition existed, was it's
monopoly feature. He did not believe, how
ever, that the mass OF the people In the coun
try was opposed to the Lottery. He had found
that when It was properly explained to them
hey favored It, He then argued against the
as tending to produce lottery
BY requiring an excessive license.
Delegate Watkins insisted that the original
article was inconsistent In it's parts and If it
was adopted and the Supreme Court Of the
United States decided the pending suit In
favor OF the present Lottery Company 1t
would continue to have monopoly Of the
sale Of lottery tickets.
Delegate Olivier believed that the Supreme
Court Of the United States would decide the
act Of lS79, abolishng the Lottery Company,
TO be constitutional. Ii the article should
pass the Convention the court would believe
that the people Of the State believed lotteries
TO be moral. and the State would lose Its best
Joint in the litigation now pending. II it
was decided, however, that lotteries were con.
stltutlonal ne favored the establishment OF
one evil instead OF many. He opposed all lot
LerieS az immoral, ana should vote against the