St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-17
The Cineh Bill Is Passed by
the Popular Branch Of
Congress.
It Makes the Postmaster Gen.
eral Judge, Jury and
EXeeutiOnep.
Nothing Relating to Lotteries
Will Be Carried in the
Mails.
Porter Sticks to His Estimate
Of a Total Population Of
64,OOO,000.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The house
to-day approved OF the conference re-
port on the bill to establish a park at
Chickamauga, passed the Mckay bill
(S3 to 65), and adopted some unimpor-
tant resolutions. The anti-lottery bill
was then taken up under a resolution
from the committee on rules providing
for calling the previous question at 4:40
p.m Mr.. Craine moved to strike out
the clause providing for the Identified
ton of lottery company's agents
through its newspaper advertisements.
He withdrew the amendme mt later. MIR.
Hayes, of Iowa, offered an amendment
striking out the clause providing
that any person violating the pro-
against either in the district at which
the unlawful publication was mailed or
to which it is carried by mail for dellv-
cry. Rejected. Mr.. Wilkinson. OF
Louisiana, III supporting the measure,
admitted the pollution which the Louis
lana lottery had wrought upon his state;
but attributed the cause of that pollu-
ton to the days of reconstruction. The
people of Louisiana looked with glad
ness to the time when lotteries would
he prohibited in that state. But the
revenues to the state had been too great
to be resisted without struggle. When
the Louisiana legislature met the very
elements themselves had conSpired
to give the Louisiana Lottery COM
pany a charter. The floods had
borne down from north and west.
The lottery company cOul afford to pay
for new charter far better than the
state of Louisiana could afford to accept
it. The price had not been accepted,
and he thanked God for it. All sense of
honor and shame in his state was not
dead. He had been asked how the lot
terry company had secured two-thrds OF
the legislature in favor of submitting
the matter to a legislature to be held
two years hence. Every solitary Re-
publican member had voted in favor of
that proposition. There had been other
members who had thought it their duty
to submit the matter to the people. That
some members of the legislature had
been bought and sold, he had not the
shadow of doubt, but he believed that
he could count those members on the
fingers of one hand. He was as conf
uent as he was that he stood here that
the lottery scheme would be over
whelmingIy defeated and that this blot
upon the state of Louisiana would be
wiped off the statute books. Mr.. Evans,
of Tennessee, advocating the bill.
dropped into statistics and stated that
the chance OF a ticket holder in the
Louisiana lottery to draw the capital
prize was one in G5.O05. Mr.. Hans
brough, of North Dakota. favored the
bill, and in, reference to the recent at
tempt to establish a lottery in that
state, thanked God that his people had
not yet reached that condition of pov-
erty that they'were willing to sell their
honor and manhood. The bill was
then passed without division. Mr..
Hayes, of Iowa, who had uoted in the
affirmative for that purpose, entered a
motionsto reconsider the vote by which
the house had passed the Mckay bill.
The house then adjourned.