The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-02-14
THE LOTTERY SCHEME.


Inc Blll heAcneS the HOOBe--ItS ErIen0S
Are in the Majority.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. s.-The San
dagger lottery bill. allowing lotteries to
do business in this state, provided they
pay $4,000 per annum into the state
treasury for the first fifteen years, and
S150,000 annually for the second fifteen
years, was transmitted to the house
Thursday, and number of remon-
stranccs against it and petitions in its
favor were read. Its opponents fill
bustered in the hope of delaying action,
but they were outvoted, and the bill
reached its first and second reading.
The bill is Senate Bill 167," the first
section of which reads as follows:
Any lottery heretofore or ganized, incoror-
ated and established in eny state of
the United States whose sole purpose or
one of whose purposes shall have been to
provide means for either educational or
charitable purposes, or both, and having u
paid up capital of S10D,t0O or over, may
carry on business in this state, and may
become domestic body corporate therein
on complying with the terms and provis-
ions of this act; provided, that said corpor-
alton shall be in actual existence such
foreign corporation at the time of filing the
shall have valid charter duly granted by
the legislature or recognized by the con
stitution of such state, and that during the
period of twenty years it shall have paid
annually, according to the provisions of its
charter, to the state officer or to tn, insti.
tuition in said charter for educational or
charitable purposes, or both, at least the
sum of sl5,0
The senators who voted for the bill
are:
Appleton, Belyea, Bell, Cowen, Diesem,
Fuller, Haggart, Harman. Hartman La
Moure, Lawrence, Little, Mcbride, Nc
Cormack, Randall, Robinson, Sandager,
Smith, Stevens, Swanton, Worst wager
-22.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, the at
torney for the Louisville lottery COM
pany, has been hero for several months
working the scherpe. The following
newspapers in the state indorse the bill:
Bismarck Tribune, Fargo Republican
and Argus, the Farmers Alliance of Val
ley City, jamestown Alert, Mandan Pio-
neer and the Scandinavian papers of Fargo
| and Grand Forks.
The Bismarck Tribune says editori-
ally:
Revenue secured by lottery is better than
by begging; better than bonding or bor-
rowing; better than confiscatory taxation;
better than the delinquent tax list; batter
than extending the time for the payment of
taxes; better than mortgage foreclosure;
better than seed wheat liens or chattels;
better than continuation of the present
condition of affairs and the impending de-
| fciency in the state treasury.
1t is informally announced that tho
Louisiana company will give $4,000
cash to the seed wheat fund immedi'
ately upon the bill becoming law.
NORTH DAKoTA'S LOTTERY BILL.
Latest Indications Are that 1t Will he
Defeated.
| BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. s.-There is
every Indication that the lottery bill
will be defeated. Twenty members Of;
the house have agreed to sustain the
governors veto. When it comes up it
will take FL votes to defeatits passage.
Opponents of the bill claim it is surely
killed. Tho excitement is running
| high and public meetings are being held