Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-19
NO LOOPHOLES
In the Anti-LOttery Rili Passed
by the National House.
Postal Authorities Powers
Greatly Increased.

dle-Fuli Text of the Measure.
WAsHINGToN, Aug 1g.-The follow
ing is the full text of the lottery lill
which has passed the house. 1t was
originally introduced by Congressman
Caldwell, of the Second Ohio district,
ana, with its main features preserved,
was reported by him to the house from
the committee on postohices and post
roads. It's object is to siren gthen the
power Of the attorney general in prohib-
iting the circulation of lottery matter
through the mails:
No letter, postal card or circular con-
cerning any lottery or so-called gift CON
Germ or other similar enterprise Offering
prizes dependent upon lot or chance,
or concerning schemes devised for
the purpose of obtaining money or prop
erty under false pretenses, and no lists Of
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, tickets, or part thereof, or of any
share Of any chance in any such lottery or
gift enterprise, shall be carried in the mail
or delivered at or through any postohice
or branch thereof, or by any letter carrier:
nor Shall any newspaper, circular, pamph-
let or publication of any kind containing
any advertisement of any lottery or gift
enterprise of any kind offering prizes de-
pendent upon lot or chance, or containing
any list of prizes awarded at the drawings
Of any sueA lottery or gift enterprise,
whetl er sail list is of any part or Of all
Of the drawing, be carried in the mail or
delivered by any postmaster or letter car
rier.
Amy person who shall knowingly deposit
or cause to be deposited, or who shall
knowingly send or cause to be sent any
thing to be conveyed or delivered BY mail
in violation of this section, or who Shall
knowingly cause to he delivered by mail
anything herein forbidden to be carried
by mail, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanOT, and on conviction shall be
punished by fine Of not more than 500
or by Imprisonment for not more than one
year, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment, for e ,ch oflense Any person vio-
lating any of the provisions of this section
may be proceeded against by information
or indictment and tried and punished
either in the district Mt which the unIaw-
full publication was mailed or to which it
is carried by mail for delivery according
to direction thereon, or at which it is
caused to be delivered by mail to the per-
son to whom it is addressed
The postmaster general may, upon evi-
dence 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 real or
personal property by lot, chance or draw
ing 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 false or fraudulent Dretcnscs,
representations or promises instruct post
masters at any postotIice at which regis
tered letters arrive directed to any such
person or company, or the agent or rep
rcsentative of any such person or COM
pany. whether such agent or representa-
tive is acting as an individual or as Il firm,
bank, corporation or association of any
kind to 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, and all such
letters so returned to such postmasters
shall be by them returned to the writers
thereof under such regulations as the post
master general may prescribe, But nothing
contained in this section shall be so con
strued rs to authorize any postmaster or
other person to open any letter not adj
dressed to himself. The public advertise
mcnt by such person or company so con
ducting 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 prima face evidence of the existence
of said agency by all the parties named
therein. But the postmaster general shall
not be precudcd from ascertaning the
existence of such agency in any other legal
way satisfactory to himself
The postmaster general may, upon evil
dcnce 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 real or
personal property, by lot, chance or draw
ing of any kind, or that any person or
company is conducting any other
scheme for obtaining money or prop
arty of any Kind through the mails
by means of false or fraudulent pre-
lenses, representations or promises, forbid
the payment by any postmaster to said
person or company of any postal mon0v
order drawn 30 his or its order, or in his
ur its favor, or to the agents of any such
persons or company, whether such agent
is acting as an individual or as a firm.
bank, corporation or association of any
kind. and may provide by regulation for
the return to the remitters of the sum
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-entcrprisc scheme or device that re-
mittances for the same may be made by
means of postal money orders to any per
son. firm, bank, or corporation or associa-
lion named therein shall be held to be
prima facie evidence of the existence
If said agency by all the parties named
therein.
Assassi:atad by Negro.
ATHENS, Ga, Aug. ID Henry
Hunter. of this city. was assasSiuatAd
Saturday night at Carriers Camp. ON the
Georgia. Carolina and Northern ra1-
road. 10y Ed. Morrison, a negro laborcr
at the camp. Hunter had ordered the
negro t. do somrthlu- aud received an
insulent reply for which reason the
negro was discharged. Morrison came
into the camp. and, walking up to
Hunter. shot him in the temple. from
he effects OF which Hunter shortly af-
forward died. The negro escaped. hut
100 men with bloodhouuds are after
nim and when captured he will be
.ynchrd.