The Helena independent., 1890-03-06
WILL GATHER THEM IN.
The Louisiana Lottery Co. to Make
Final Struggle in North
Dakota.
Creatures OF the Concern Declare
the Company viii Garry Its
Point Now.


BsM,HcK. n. d.. March 5.-The state sen.
ate had rcd-hot time to-day. A commu-
nication WAS read from Attorney General
Goodwin, replying 10 the request Of the
senate as to the proper mode of procedure
to compel the attendance Of witness DO
fore the investigating committee. The at
torney-gonoral stated that there were \
great many ways Of compelling witnesses TO
testify. and called attention 10 the fact that
in the dark ages "tho rack" and other in
struments of torture were rcsortod TO.
The senate considered the communication
and several scnn,ors made speeches Sc.
vereIy scoring the attorney general. His
communication was then expunged from
tho records. The question of the bill
mentioned in Yesterdays dispatches COM
pclling newspapers 10 have mn agent in the
state unon whom service in actions of law
coula be had, came up again. Senators
Barlow and Dodds. who made minority
report oulogizing the newspapers of the
country for their work ON the lottery bill
and severely scoring that measure, were
ralSCd right and left by other senators.
resolution ccnsuring Barlow and Dodds and
denouncing them ns unworthy Of the re-
spect of the senate and removing Dodds
from the Office OF president pro tenn. was
adopted by n vote ~ 3 10 ..
4 Abombshell was launched in the anti
lottery camp this evening hy the appoint
ment of n queer committee, which has con
ynced the doubling that the lottery man
ayers have not been idle since the bill was
| indefinitely postponed in the house, and
that they have been actively laying out and
perfectng plans for complete victory in
| The near future. Senator Mccormick intro
duced resolution to-day for the appoint
ment of why's and means committee,
which in for the purpose of deyising means
| for the purchasing of seed grain and other
necessarios for the needy farmers
of the state. the members of such
committee 20 be ex-senator Spencer.
attorney for the Louisiana lottery, Alex
Mckenzie, Vim. I'udgc, VIM. q. Mulcahey.
Major X. Y. Fleming. JEFF. Meyers and A.
q. Mhipple. They are all lottery support
ers. Spencer and Mckenzie have been the
most prominent eonspirators. Whipple Is
from Devils Lake and was member OF the
recent constitutional convention, which
body in some mysterious manner caused
proposed article for the constitution TO
drop out which would no. tolerate lotteries
| of nnv kind 20 do business in the state.
The reeolution was adopted in the senate
| by almost precisely the safne vote thht
passed the lottery bill month ago, and
reveals the lottery strength IN the senate to
this date.
The schemers have suffered the loss OF one
vote. Yaeer, of Minnewaukan, voting nay.
Wager became alarmed nj the intense uni
versal Indignation when the lottery bill
passed ono body. and Topped 10 the minor
ity He is confident the bill will not 60
through when brought up again. Senator
Jud Iamoure. who has returned from the
east. does not hesitate to say that the bill Is
not u dead issue. and that II sto be brought
up and become law in spite Of all opposi-
tion. Mayor Bentley, Of this city, rs rally,
ing his forces preparatory 10 making grand
aud effective onslaught on the schemers.
II is said one OF two votes have been lost IN
the house. which makes IL an utter imposs-
biity 20 pass the bill over Governor Miller's
probable veto, but the lottery friends claim
they can easily redeem any Of the lost or
timid sheep.