The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-08
LAWFUL LOTTERIES.
North Dakota Contemplate
Having Them.
THE ADMINISTRATION is SHOCKED
At fine Iiea-What Wanamaker and Miller
Say-Rev DR.. Ball Loses
His Suit

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
BISMARCK, N. Oak, Feb. THE better
class of the people of this supposedly high
moral capital of an ultra moral state are
dazed at the report current That the legis-
lature is seriously proposing to transfer
bodily the Louisiana state lottery to North
Dakota The charter of the lottery In the
former state will expire by Limitation IN
1895, and the Louisiana legislature Is Tor
hidden by the constitution to legallze It's
existence longer. The managers, In casting
about for location, hitupon this new state
as about the only one in which they might
hope to secure legalized existence. The
North Dakota constitution, it is said, as the
result of deep laid plot, contains no in
hibition against the chartering of a lottery
and therefore its incorporation here would
be perfectly lawful, as lotteries are recog
nized by the common law, and were never
prohibited in England until about
1890 The pretext under which
the present embarrassed condition
of the state finances. 1t is proposed that
the lottery company shall pay the state
license of 100000 year. The comblna-
ton has developed ample strength to pass
the measure by large majority in the leg
islature. 1t is found, however, that the
governor will veto the bill, and the combi-
nation is now forming to make sure of the
necessary two thirds with which to pass 1t
over his Veto 1t is conceded that they
have already secured the necessary num-
Der in the house, and the bill has already
passed the senate. Everything shows that
the purpose is to establish an oligarchy
here which shall control politics in the
future as absolutely as is now done by the
same power in Louisiana. The bill does
not specifically name the Louisiana lottery
company. but prescribes conditions with
which only that company can comply.
The Louisiana legislature meets in Apri
next. 1t has been expected that constl
tutional convention would be asked for by
the lottery in order to do away with th'
constitutional proviso limiting the exist
.ence of the institution to the next tire
years Meantime steady opposition ha
developed The MethodiStS have de
nounced it in their conferences and tn
Presbyterians in their newspapers. Tn
Rev. Sam Jones visited New Orleans eX
pressly to preach against it and tn
farmers alliance refuses to support an
paper that advertises It's drawings. Blu
far the most persistent and effectiv
opposition comes from the agents an
emissaries of the rival HAVANA and Mex
can institutions. 1t was calculate
that the lottery was prepared t
spend s., 0OO,O0O. years earnings, TO OF
tain the legislation it desired and the les
islature expected to reap an enormous rev
enue. Two years ago the lottery manager
began to see what fight they would hav
to wage and what an immense expense the
would be put to and thus matters wer
shaped until to day. For North Dakota tn
lottery establishment is something emo
nous Not less than five hundred familie
are supported by the call of ticket
General Beauregard and General Earl
get a salary of $50, 900 year for witnes
ing the new wings and giving out tt
papers.