Arizona silver belt., 1890-05-24
THE LOUISIANA Lerrsw. OFFER

on the l2th inst., Will prove an lmpof- tant one by reason of the offer of S1,000,000 per annum, or S25,000,000 for twenty-five years, by the Louis. jana State Lottery, as license for tho privilege of continuing the salo of tickets The manner ip which the managers propose to distribute this yearly license to tho Stato Is as fol- . lows. Levee$, S350, 900; public schools, S350,000; hospitals, Sl00,0O0; insaue, S75,00 deaf, dumb. S25 900. drainage city of New Orleans, Sl0e,Q00. Fetal, S1,000000. Tsmphns as the offer l,, 1t does net excite tho cupldity of the Governor, who has officially notified the legislative assembly that legiSla- ton tending to that end will net be approved by hlm.
 The present charter expires Decsm- Der 3lst, 1894. Tle constitution of the State, winch has been amended slnee the charter under which the company IS acting was granted, pre- hlbits lotteues, and as the legislature only holds bi.annuai sessions, the managers therefore find it necessary to endeavor to procure, from con. stitutionsl convention, authority for the legislature to re-charter the com. pany which is the question now al issue.
 In view of the magnitude of the issue at stake, who will attempt to compute the value of a vote in the present legislature? Certainly worth more than the Gridley fifty pound sack of sanitary flour for winch the Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Compa. ny, of Nevada bid one thousand dol, lars, and winch was finally "closed out at three thousand dollars per pound.
 The offer of million per annum, and incidental expense of Legislation" is mere bagatelle when taken into consideration ths revenue derived from States outside of Louisiana. In home circles, where the wheel of for tune rayolves in the presence of G. T. Bsauregard and j. A. Early, it is com putsd that the single commonwealth of California contributes S250,600 monthly, or S8,O00.00C per annum, notwithstanding the law of that State prohibits the sale of lottery tickets within its boundaries. Such being the case, would not the Stato be jus titisd in demanding tIppls tho price now offered for so inestimablo a fran chise, a sum not in excess of the an. nual revenue derived by the present corporation from peerless California?
 Louisiana has now realizing sense of her condition, by reason of annual floods frem streams that drain half continent, homes ruined fortunes swept away, ia consequence of deiec. tive leyees. Is 1t not, therefore, reason able to suppose that she would avail herself of the present opportunity 10 so better her condition as to render her sugar and cotton lands available? In this matter the labor question is involved. The destruction of great and costly plantations and factories will result ln reducing to ahisct want a thlrd of million of negroes, The condition of affairs in States border ing on the Mississippi has at last forced itself upon tho attention of Congress, and the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House, by persistent effort, has secured an understanding by which the river and harbor blll will be taken up immediately after the tariff bill Is disposed of, and the deplorable condition of the country bordering the Mississippi river will, Tn time, probably bo relieved.
 But notwithstanding the recent change of Congressional opinion in regard to the oyerfowed lands of the South, Loulslana should demand plump sum for the more than quas- tionable privilege asked by the Louis iana State Lottery for the legal right to s,ll lottery tickets. The anti-lot. t.ry members of the Legislature doubt less will see that the privilege IS not sold for ssng
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