Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-24
Convicted of Drunkenness.
GRESHAM AND THE LOTTERIES.
Severely Lashed by the P"st for HIS
Recent Bull.

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Recent Bull.
WASHINGTON, September 23.-The Louis
lana Lottery Company his received another
blackeye in the shape of an order
from the PostoffiCe Department, directing
that all registered letters addressed to NJ
A. Dauphin be returned TO the offices from
which they were originally sent, with the
word fraudulest plainly written or stamped
on the envelopes. The Washington Post OF
to-day has ferocious leader declaring that
General Gresham's letter to the New Or
leans Postmaster is an unparalleled
outrage. The editor assumes that Gen.
eral Gresham's only reason for issuing
the order is that Dauphin is conducting
lottery, and that the business OF the lot
terry is vicious and immoral. Upon this
assumption the editor proceeds to say:
The immortality of lotteries is a question
we do not need to argue, as 1t has nothing
to do with the matter at issue. Postmaster
General Gresham plays poker occasionally,
and puts the money which he wins
At the Gambling Table
in his pocket, but that ought not to deprive
him of the right to receive a registered
letter or to have cash for a money
order. Mr.. Gresham also drinks
whisky, and there are those who be-
lieve both poker playing and whisky drink
ing to be vicious and immoral, but il he
we're loaded down nightly with poker
games, or became an inebriate from his
excesses in drinking, the United States can
not legally refuse to deliver him a regis.
tsred letter or pay him the face value OF
the money order. For some time lot
hos hao haf
Kentucky companies and the Louisiana
Company, and for some reason not yet de.
fined the Postmaster General has conclud.
ed to assist the one side by assailing the
other. In doing this, whether led by the
interest or malevolence of the men about
him, he has gone so far as practically to
subyert by q
Most AudaciOus UsurpatiOn
of power the entire mail service of the
United States, and there can be not 50
much as q particle of doubt that the mo-
ment the courts run afoul of Mr Gresham's
order they will make short work OF ii.
Still, the wonder is that man who has oc-
cupied a Federal bench, as Judge Gresham
has, and reputed, as we learn, could have
so wantonly and violently assailed the
rights which be was lately appointed and
sworn to protect If Mr.. Dauphin has the
proper stuff in him he will very quickly
show Gen. Gresham that he Is neither
above the law nor the creator OF it, and
that it is as dangerous TO violate it in the
pretended interests of morality as in any
other name or for any assured purpose"
Making an Order More Sweeping.
WASHINGTON, September 23.-To supply
certain omissions in the order recently
issued by the Postmaster General, forbid
ding the delivery of registered letters to
NJ. Il. Dauphin, it has been amended so as
TO read as follows:
In pursuance with the finding OF Post
master General Key, which finding remains
in full force, it IS ordered that all post
masters be, and they are hereby directed to
inform the remitters of said postal money
orders that the payment thereof has been
forbidden, and that the sum Of such money
orders will be returned on presentation OF
duplicate orders applied for and obtained
under the regulations of the Department.
All postmasters are also forbidden 10 de-
liver registered letters arriving at their
offices directed to said NJ. A. Dauphin, and
are instructed 10 return all such registered
letters to the postmasters at the Office at
which they were originally mailed, with
the word Fraudulent" plainly written or
stamped on the outside Of such letters.
We GRESHAM, p. NJ. G.