The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-03
The wAE ON TaE LOTTEEIEs.
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Foreign Newspapers with Their Adver-
tisenents VIII Be Excluded
wsshsngson City Special
Anything Ike real enforcement of the
new enfi-loftery bill ought to make it ex-
tremesy difHcalt for the Louisiana Lottery
Company, or sny similar concern. 10 trans
sct business In the United States There Is
10 doub: that the Jo5isinA Company viii
exercise the utmost ingenuity in trying 10
get around the law, bat is - obvious that II
can do little business II IL il unable % dis
seminate information of iss existence
among the people
Il ss the belief of those responsible for
the ansi-iottery Law that to prohibit the
circulation Of eny paper containing lot
terry advertisement and TO smut of al cir
c.slars and the Ike is 10 strike fatal blow
a. the Big lottery company. This the new
Law does and IL IL 70 this feature VI that lz~
that the Louisiana concern 10 expected 10
pay ia closest attention A COCO deal Of
lated today 70 the ef1ec: that the Louisiana
lottery has already found a way 20
virtually nu3iify the Law. 1t IL de-
clGred that the company proposes 10
secure control Of q Newspaper Published IN
Montreal or some other Canadian town.
I'll It's columns with information for the
benefit o. its patrons and victims IN this
c0untyy, ard scatter Il broadcast through
the mails. This can be done. IL u asserted
On behalf Of the company, because under
tire postal union treaty. signed some years
ago a. Lisbon, the United states canno.
exclude from its mails newspapers pub
iishs1 IN any country belonging 20 the
postal union.
If the lottery company really intends to
undertake q scheme Of this sort i. is not
likely 10 find 10 an easy one 10 carry out.
The Lisbon treaty expressly reserves 70 the
government Of every country in the postal
Union the right 70 refuse 10 convey over its
territory or deliver articles n regard TO
which the laws. ordinances or DEGREES
which regulate the conditions OF their pub
Ecation or their circulation IN that country
have not been complied with.
Outside OF this treaty existing laws pro-
vie that all articles prohibited from do
rIestic mails are also excluded from circu-
Iation in the mails 10 or from foreign
countries.
jude Tyner, the assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department, had
his attention called today TO the reported
scheme OF the Louisiana company, and
when be was asked as TO the scope OF the
new Law he replied:
''If the question arises in an official way
/ shall certainly advise the postmaster
general 10 exclude from the mails ali news
papers. whether published in Canada or
elsewhere, which contain advertisements
OF any lottery company. Il the Louisiana
company acquires newspaper in Canada
for the express purpose Of carrying on a
business in the United States IN violation
OF the law of this country. I think the
postmaster general will have the rsght-he
certainly will hare the power-to cir
camyens the scheme BIZ Closing the
mails 10 the newspaper. The intention OF
congress in passing the ants-Iottery act was
cieariy 10 protect the people Of the United
States from the Louisiana company. 1t
was not the intention to prevent the circu-
iation of newspapers In this country which
contain advertisements for the lottery COM
panies which are clearly addressed to non-
residents OF the United States But there
can be no question that the law is SO ex-
piicit that all newspapers containing lot
terry advertisements. whether published in
the United states. Canada, Mexico or Eu-
rope. can be excluded from the mails
Judge Iyner said the postmaster general
would not be justified in opening mail mat
ter from Canada. supposed 10 contain lot
terv advertisements, prizes or tickets, If
such matter was sent under seal, because
tie United States supreme court has de-
cided that under no circumstances NAV
any official OF the government break the
zeal of any letter addressed TO a private in
dividual. Private letters are sacred, no
matter where they are mailed. but under
the new law the sending of money order
or any other form of payment to the lot
terry company for tickets makes the sender
liable TO fine or imprisonment
III 1t should be held that the Lisbon
treaty viii pYevent the closing of the mails
20 the Canadian newspapers, then" Judge
Tyner added, .Ihe postmaster general can
al once enter into negotiations with the
Canadian authorities with the purpose of
preventing the evasion of the law threat
ened BY the louisiana company
Chairman Hit. OF the House committee
on foreign affairs, says there can be no
question that the law can be enforced
against Canadian newspapers 1.-THE Lis
bon treaty NAV come in contact with the
Law to some extent" he said, "but what
are the lottery people TO do about it? The
courts viii hold, es they have held before.
that the law, being subsequent to the
treaty. is the later law. I think there can
De no question as 10 the right of the post
master general TO exclude newspaperz
from any country from the mails. il fhose
papers contain advertisements of lottery
COMPANY