The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-18
STATUS OF THE LOTTERY.
THE QUESTION LIKELY To LEAD TO END e
LESS LITIGATION.
CONTRARY ACTION TAKEN BY THE LoUIs1
ANA sENATE--THE MATTER GOES
OVER WITH MUCH CON
FUSION.

New ORLEANS, La, July 8. - The
Senate wrangled all day over the lot
terry question without accomplishing
anything. The House passed the lot.
terry bill over the Governors veto yes
terday and it was supposed that the
Senate would do the same to-day, as
the Legislature adjourns tomorrow,
but the lottery found it impossible to
get all the votes it needed-twenty-
four-in the Senate and the matter
went over until tomorrow.
The missing Senator, Mr.. Fisher
Smith, of Sabine, was too seriously ill
with inflammation of the bowels TO get
to the State House. Two doctors
we're sent from New Orleans to attend
him, and everything done to restore
him, as the fate of the lottery bill de-
pended on his vote.
Under the care of the doctors he SO
improved that it was announced that
he could be taken to the State House
in an invalid's chair or litter at 2:30
o'clock and action on the veto was
postponed until that hour. But at
half-past 2 Senator Smith was much
worse. The doctors said he would
risk his life in going to the State
House, and his wife protested against
his removal and another postponement
had to be asked for.
AN ANTI-LorrERY CHANCE.
This created great excitement. The
anti-lottery men tried to force vote
at once aud thus take advantage of
Senator Smiths absence, and for sew
eral hours the two factions fought over
this proposition. 1t looked for a
while as though the antis would win,
but an executive session was called for
and this gave the lottery people few
hours respite. When the executive
session was over a message was re-
ceived from Senator Smith, who in
formed the Senate that he was too
sick to leave his bed, AMI invited it to
meet in his bedroom and there discuss
and vote on the lottery veto question,
and he cited a section OF the State
constitution that the Legislature could
adjorn to meet at any place selected
on the vote of both branches.
The House IN the meantime had
kept in session without doing anything
whatever, in order to vote on this
question of adjourning to the hotel if
it became necessary.
Ove- this question the Senate fought
4 .xlaI ol ha nuan,nnx hot n
sides resorting to every conceivable
parliamentary trick and device.
The proposition fually adopted was
to adjourn until noon tomorrow, then
proceed to Senator Smiths room, there
debate the question aud come to q
vote.
After discussing the question fol
several hours again tonight the reso
luton to meet at Smiths was with
drawn and the matter was submitted
to the Judiciary Committee to decide
whether the Governor had right tt
veto the lottery bill. A majority re
ported that he did not have that righ
and that his veto was of no effect
The minority declared that he had tb
veto power in this case, This leave
the question very much tangled an'
complicated.
| The lottery people claim that th'
bill has been passed and is a law; it
opponents that the Governors vet
wipes it out. 1t is impossible to sa
what the Legislature will do to-mol
roY.
The question will inevitably go il
to the courts for long litigation.
seems that Senator Smith was muc
sicker than reported and that the 10
terry men felt they could not pass tf
bill over the Governors veto, and {
resolved to treat that veto as null an
void and of no effect.
1t will require legal decision to d'
eide whether the lottery bill is a la
or not, and whether the lottery's cha
ter is to be extended twenty-five year