Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-11-04
The Preparations Made by the
Louisiana Lottery Company
to SubYert
The Restrictions Placed Upon Them
by the United States Pos
tai Laws,
What the Concern Has Been in the
Past and What II Is at
Present.

siderable time the Louisiana Lottery Com.
papy has had half dozen lawyers at work
in Washington laying out the ground for
the winter campaign in Congress and in the
courts. 1t has engaged corps OF lobby
lists, and in doing so has manifested the 50.
gacity OF engaging well-known strikers,
who by their antecedents attest the char.
acter of the service they are expected to
perform. Awhile ago the company sued
Postmaster General Gresham in a COM
plant for enforcing the law OF Congress
Forbidding tho Use
of the United States mails by fraudulent
lottery companies. Only few days since,
Judge Gresham not maniiesting dispo-
sitUn 10 eaken, the representatives OF the
con- pany, with Colonel Moulton, the man
ager of the winter campaign, at the head,
formally presented TO the President 3
memorial, signed by many individuals
and firms in New Orleans, ssking that
Judge Gresham I've stayed for the enforce
uept OF the law of Congress and that the
Corpeny be permitted 10 use the mails in
trsnsactipg its business. The power Of
the company in New Orleans is such that
the names to such q petition need be linn
ited only to the total Of the ciIy's popu-
lation.!
How tho Answer Came.
The answer TO the petition came sooner
and IN a form different from what was eX.
peCted. Ii was the announcement thst
Attorney General Brewster would supple.
mtnt Judle Gresbsm's action against The
uomp8ny by instructing tho District Attor.
neys in the Fedora! Districts TO proceed
sghinst the purchasers as we'll rs the sci.
ltrs Of lottery tickets. II is fair 10 sav.
however. that Attorney General Hrcws;ers
intention so to GCt was unknown to Ar
rhur. concerning whose disposition in the
premises
Nothing Certain Is known.
The representatives Of the company aver
rhGt they have grounds for hoping action
RON him favorable 10 them. As to that
We shall sre. CrlCss the President acts
>oun ard in lively way il will matter not
much what be does, rs the law once on the
track cannot be called of readily, especially
when Attorney General Brewster directs
i,s operations. II is more likely to be a
barren assumption on tn. part of the com.
pany that it has the slightest ground for
eypectiDg favorable aoiion from Arthur.
If the arrogant concern had an idea that IL
would he able TO head off Gresham or
Brewster it will in time learn that 1t has
miscalculat,d ii.
In Lsnpue with Consptrntors.
Who and what is the Louisiana State
Lottery company that it should thus at
ttmpt 20 throttle the Government aud
presume 10 come 10 Congress Tor hep in
the work? In l~7G /; vas hand in hand
with the COILS DiraturS v ho stole the State 10
elect Hayes 1t is for that service il pro
poses to appeai To q Democratic House Oi
Represen tativts for help in the quarrel in
which il finds itself involved VIII those
who proiited by the theft and are in power
now because the HAYES fraud succeeded ?
The Louisiana State Lottery Company paid
MANY thousands of dollars 10 he'll the visit
inc statesmen Sent down TO New Orleans 10
steal the Stare aud 10
Assist the SO-iHiiei Commissioners
acting IN behalf of Hayes after the fraud
was pcrpeilaltd. Ii has corrupted the
service Sirce hy scattering thousands OF
dollars among officials. whereby orders
have bee, made and revoked as the payers
and payr,s played heir game. 1t boasts
he ownership OF Louisiana, end OF late
wears has zone ;ts business through the
Democratic party, tho ec"rt Of wnich is
seen in The disruption Of the party and
the present strife f"T supremacy smong
the factions. 1t hss mafe IL regular
business 10 have its agents at conventions
large and small, 10 keep an eye on Senate
rial elections and take all interest in State
contests.
An Immense Corruption Pund.
This the cImpany can afford to door
could before il fell out with Gresham-by
reason of the enormous income resulting
from the nature and the extraordinary
method OF doing its business. What its.
wealth is 10 outsider knows. Something
can be inferred from the fact that stock
which q gentleman few years ago became
possessor OF at on immense advance on It,
usr value has increased over what lac psiH
fo< il three thousand per cent.
This is the concern whose agents havc Tor
weeks and months been
Arranging for Its winter Campaign !
bss employed is strikers for the lobby sno
il. seents for whatever service Il shall b,
forl d pxtedient for them 10 engage in.
Having for years corrupted tie pnbl'c
service. ibis company is prepared 20 stall
into the hslls Of Congress and the COURT
ard there carry on its peculiar practices.
Having corrupted the community by the
v,rv nature Of it's business il knows no
ntl.r way to proceed 1t has no aim or enc
bat could be sUbserysd in any other way