St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-06
North Dakota Senator'S Swal-
low the Louisiana Lottery
Kings Gold Bait.
Sandager's Bill Legalizing
the Great Game Of Chance
Is Adopted.
Should It Pass the Lower
House, Gov. Miller Will
Veto 1t.
Lieut.. Gov. Richards, of Mon
tana, Adopts Tom Reeds
Autoeratie Policy.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK. N, D., Feb. 5.-The senate
to-day passed the Sandager lottery rev.
enue bill by vote of twenty-five to
eight.
This bill will place about 100000 into
the state treasury as soon as it becomes
a law, and petitions have been received
from all parts of the state urging irs
passage.
One remonstrance came from Grand
Forks, and from the same place several
petitions for the passage of the bill.
Jamestown. Fargo. Grafton. and other
points were heard from by wire in favor
OF the measure on the ground that it
would help the state out of its
present financial embarrassment, and
this Is the argument used by
the champions of the measure.
1t seems that the charter of the LOuisi-
ana lottery in Louisiana will expire by
limitation in 1895, and the legislature is
forbidden by the constitution to
LEGALIZE ITS EXISTENCE LONGER.
The managers of the great robbery, in
casting about for location have hit
upon this state as about the only one
in which they might hope to Sc
cure legaliZed existence. North
DakOta's constitution contains no
Inhibition against the char
tering of lotteries, and therefore it's in
corporation here would be perfectly
lawful, as lotteries are recognized by
the common law, and were never pro-
hibited in England until about 1880.
The pretense and preteXt under which
this incredible outrage upon clviiiZa-
tion is to be accomplished are
the present embarrassed condition
posed that the lottery company shall
pay the state license of SlO0,O00 year.
The combination, which is headed by
Alex Mckenzie and ex-United States
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has de-
Veloped ample strength to pass the
measure by large majority in the
Legislature. Gov. Miller will veto the
bill, and the combination is now work.
ing to make sure of the necessary two
thirds with which to
PASS IT OVER HIS VETO.
it is conceded that they have already
secured the necessary number in the
house, and the measure, having passed
the senate, will he sent to the lower
body at once and rushed through.
These they are sure to get unless the
whole Infamous scheme is ventilated
and denounced through the medium of
the press. The purpose is to establish
an oigarchy here which shall control
North Dakota politics in the future as
absolutely as it is now done by the same
power in Louisiana. The formidable
dimensions which the conspiracy has
already assumed has had the
effect to intilnldate many public
men, who at heart are against it's
consummation. 1t is almost universally
conceded that any public man who OPP
poses it will have no future in this state,
if the scheme goes through successfully.
On the other hand it is also conceded
that if it should fail. those who have
been identified with it will be wrecked
politically. 1t is already the crv al Bis
marck that nothing can defeat it. and
those who waver are urged to get on
the band wagon while there is still time
Money is being used to an unprece-
dented degree. and those who cannot be
reached in this way are threatened. flat
tered or cajoled as occasion requires.
can get any measures OF importanc
through unless he comes into the COM
bine and agrees to support it. Many
votes have been secured in this way 1t
has been the great and all absorbing
topic Of conversation in Bismarck now
for ten days or more, and indeed was
first broached in December. aud vet not
an inkIing of 1T has ever appeared in
any paper until lately. This of itself
shows that it is Infamous in it's nature
and
Will NOT BEAR THE LIGHT
Of day. the bill is general in its char
acter and will not specifically name the
Louisiana Lottery company, but will
prescribe certain conditions which only
that company can comply with. 1t will
also provide for the payment into the
state treasury of large sum of money
within day or two after the passage of
tile bill, which, of course. wi be
Immediately complied with by the lot
terry company, and this will give it vested
rights which no future legislature can
abrogate. The bill has been drawn by
some of the ablest lawyers in theUnlted
States. and will undoubtedly stand if
passed. About one-half of the state
officers have been draw to its support.
Gov. Miller is beyond the reach of
money or influence, and is opposing the
bill by every means in his power. OF
course its authors understand that the
passage of this bill will inflict disgrace
upon this state from which it will never
recover. 1t will make North Dakotans
the laughing stock of the world,
and the batt for the ridicule of every
body. This being prohibition state
will emphasize it the more. All sorts
of specious arguments have been used
to secure support for the bill; the
banks are promised large deposits, and
specific sums have been named which
certain of them would get; the farmers
are told that it will not only relieve the
state of its present financial embarrass-
ment. but that 1t will also food thu state
with money in the shape of deposits in
the banks, which will enable them fthe
farmers) to borrow at low rates of inter-