Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-26
ANTI-LOTIERY
Bill Prepared by the POstOiiice
Department.
Proposed Interpretation of Ad-
VertiSements

So as to Exclude Subsidized Newspapers
from the Mails and Prevent the Trans
mission of Money In Accordance with
the s-otices Published Therein--Full
Text of the Bill.
WASHINGTON, July 29.-The new bill
designed to prevent every form of use of
the United States mails by lotteries,
either in the distribution of circulars,
the publication Of advertisements, or
the transmission of money, as prepared
at the postoffice department, appears be-
low. 1t will be considered in the house
committee on postoffices. The senate
committee also has the bill ON its table.
1t amends existing laws so as to read as
follows:
SEC. 1. No letter, postal card or cir
cular concerning any lottery, so-called
gift concern or any similar enterprise
Offering prizes dependent upon lotteries or
chance, or concerning schemes devised for
the purpose Of obtaining money or prop
erty under false pretenses, and no list of
the drawings at any lottery or similar
scheme, and no lottery ticket, or part
thereof and no check, draft, bill, money,
postal note or money order for the pur-
chase of any ticket, tickets, or parts
thereof, or of any share or chance in any
such lottery or gift enterprise, shall be
carried in the mail or delivered at on
through any postoffice or branch thereof,
or by any letter carriers, nor shall any
newspaper, circular, pamphlet or pub
lication of any kind containing any adver-
tisement of any lottery or gift enterprise
OF any kind offering prizes dependent upon
lot or chance. or containing any list of
prizes awarded at the drawings of any
such lottery or gift enterprise, whether
said list Is of any part or all of the draw
ings to be carried in the mail or delivered
by any postmaster or letter carrier. Amy
person who shall knowingly deposit, or
cause to be deposited, or who shall know
ingly send ortcause to be sent, anything
to be conveyed or delivered by mail, in vi
Olntion of this section, or who shall know
ingly cause to be delivered by mail any
thing herein forbidden to be carried by
mail, shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanOr, and on conviction shall be pun
ished by IL fine of not more than $5,000 or
by imprisonment for not more than one
year or by both such fine and imprison-
ment for each oftense. Any per
son violating any OF the provisions
of this section may he proceeded against
by information or indictment, and tried
and punished either in the district at
which the unlawful publication was
mailed, or to which it is carried by mail
for delivery, according to the direction
thereon, or at which 1t is caused to be de
livered by mail to the person to whom il
is addressed
SEC. 2. The postmaster general may,
upon evidence satisfactory to him that
any person or company is engaged in con
Quoting any lottery gift enterprise or
scheme for the distribution of money or
OF any real or personal property by lot,
chance or drawing of any kind, or that
any person or company is conducting any
other scheme or device for obtaining
money or property of any kind
through the mails by means of
fraudulent pretenses, representations
or promises, instruct p stmasters
at any postoffice at which registered
letters arrive, directed to any such person
or company, or to the agent or representa-
tive of any such persons or company,
whether such agent or representative is
acting as an individual or as a firm, bank,
corporation, or association of any kind 10
return all such registered letters to the
postmaster at the Office at which they
were originally mailed, with the word
Fraudulent" plainly written or stamped
upon the outside thereof and all such let
tiers so returned to such po5tmasters shall
be by them returned to the writers
thereof, under such regulations as tha
postmaster general may prescribe But
nothing contained in this section shall be
so construed as to authorize any postmas-
ter or other person to open any letters t
addressed to himself. The public adver-
tisement by such person or company so
such lottery, gift enterprise,
scheme or device that remittances for the
same may be made by registered letters to
any other person, firm, bank, corporation
or association named therein, shall be
held to be an acknowledgment of the ex-
istence of said agency by all the parties
named therein,
SEC. 3. That the postmaster general
may, upon evidence satisfactory to him |
that any person or company is engaged in |
any lottery, gift enterprise or
scheme for the distribution of money, or |
of any real or personal property by lot,
chance or drawing of any kind, or that |
other scheme for obtaining money or
of any kind throug the mails by |
means of false or fraudulent pretenses,
forbid the payment by any postmaster TO |
said person or company of any |
postal money orders drawn to |
his or it's order, or in his or its favor, or to |
the agent of any such person or company, |
whether such agent is acting as an indi-
yidual or as a firm, bank, corporation or
association of any kind, and may provide |
by regulation for the return to the remit |
ters of the sums named in such money |
orders. But this shall not authorize any |
person to open any letter not addressed to |
himself. The public advertisement by |
such person or company so conducting any |
such lottery, gift enterprise or scheme,
that remittances for the same may be |
made by means of postal money orders to
any other person, firm, bank or corpora
ton or association named therein, shall be |
held to be an acknowledgment of the ex- |
istence of said agency by all the parties |
named therein.
Chicago Factory Burned.
CHICAGO, July 26.-The Aston Manu-
cOmpanys works, located at |