Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-20

the pollution which the louisiana
lottery had wrought upon his
state, but attributed the birth
of that pollution to the days of recon
struction. The people Of Louisiana
| looked with gladness 10 the time when
lotteries would be prohibited III that
state. But the revenues TO the state
Louisiana Legislature met the very ele-
give the Louisiana Lottery Company
charter The floods had borne down
from North and West. Mr.. Evans, of
Tennessee, advocating the bill, dropped
into statistics, and stated that
the chance of ticket holder in the
/ Louisiana lottery to draw the capital
arize was one in 67,005. Mr.. Hans
rough IN. d. favored the bill, and in
eference to the recent attempt to es
tablsh lottery in that state, thanked
God that his people had notyet reached
that condition OF poverty that they
were willing to sell their honor and
manhood. The bill was then passed with
out division. The anti-lottery bill,
which passed the House to-day, is in
the following terms: 'No letter, postal
card or circular concerning any lottery,
so-called gift concern Or similar enter
prise, offering prizes dependent upon
lot or chance Cor CONCERNING schemes
devised for the purpose Of obtaining
money or property under false pre-
tenses) 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 purchase of any
ticket, or part thereof, or of any share
or any chance in any such lottery or gift
enterprise, shall be carried in the mail
or delivered at or through any post-of-
flee or branch thereof, or by any letter
carrier; nor shall any newspaper, cir
cular, pamphlet or publication of any
kind containing any advertisement 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 of all of the
drawing, be carried in the mail or de-
lvered by any postmaster or letter car
rler. Any person who shall knowingly
deposit, send OF cause to be sent, any
thing to be conveyed or delivered by
mail in violation of this section, or who
shall knowingly cause to be delivered
by mail anything herein forbidden to
be carried by mail, shall be deemed
guilty Of a mlsdemeanOr, and on con-
viction shall be punished by q fine of
not more than $500 or by imprisonment
OF not more than one year, or by
both such fine and Imprisonment
for each ohense. The postmas-
ter-general may, upon evidence
satisfactory to him, that any person or
company is engaged in conducting any
lottery, gift enterprise or scheme for
the distribution of money or of any
| rna1 or r,nrsp1,ol 1oponorfv nv LOT chanoa
or drawing of any kind, through the
mails by means of false or fraudulent
pretenses, representations or promises,
instruct postmasters at any post-offlce
at which registered letters arrive direct
ed to any such person or company, or to
their agent, to return all such regis
tered letters to the postmasters
at the office at which they
were originally mailed, with the word
Fraudulent" plainly written or
stamped upon the outside thereof; and
all such letters SO returned to such post
masters shall be by them returned to
the writer's thereof, under such regula-
tons rs the postmaster-genera may pre-
scribe. But nothing contained in this
section shall be SO construed as to au-
thorze any postmaster or other person
to open any letter not addressed to
himself. The public advertisement
by such person or company
so conducting such lottery, gilt
enterprise, scheme or device, that
remittance for the same may be made
/ by registered letters to any other per-
| son, firm, bank, corporation or assocla-
ton named therein shall be held as
prima facie evidence of the existence
OF said agency by all the parties named
therein. But the postmaster-genera
shall not be precluCed from ascertain
ing the existence of such agency in any
other legal way satisfactory to himself.
| The acknowledgement may upon evil
dence satisfactory to him that any per-
son or company is engaged In conduct
ing any lottery, gift enterprise, or
scheme, for the distribution OF
money or any personal property by
bid the payment by any postmaster to
said person or company of any postal
money orders drawn to his or its order,
or IN his or its favor, or to the agent OF
any such person or company, and may
/ provide for the return to the remitters
Of the sum named in such money or
ders. The public advertisement of such
/ person or company so conducting any
such lottery that remittances for the
same may be made by means of postal
money orders to any other person or
| dSSOCIdtlOIl IldUlCu tlfGIelfl, SIldIl UG uClu
to be prima facie evidence Of the exist
ence of said agency by all the parties
named therein.
] Senate.
| MONDAY, Aug. 1l.-After routine bust
ness the tariff bill was taken up in the
Senate, the pending question being on
| Mr. Plumbs amendment offered Satur-
day to paragraph 1874, page q, to reduce
the additional duty on iron OF steel
! hoops, cut to lengths for baling pur-
/ poses from 210 to Ito cents per pound.
The amendment was reiected-yeas, Is;
nays. 25 Mr.. Mcpherson moved to
amend the paragraph by making
the duty on iron or steel hoops
SO per cent. al valorem. instead of l
cent. lilo cents and | $40 cents per
pound. After debate vote was
reached on McPherson's amendment,
and it was rejected without division.
There were no other amendments Of
fered to paragraph l34. Paragraph l35
as to railway bars was, at the suggestion
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