Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-07

| Post Ohice Officials Think the Company 3
Receipts Have Been Greatly Reduced.

Post Once Officials Think the Company's
Receipts Have Been Greatly Reduced.
It will be year this month since the act be-
came law which excludes the lottery COM
pany from the use Of the mails. 1t is said by
post Office officials that during that
period the power Of the company has
been greatly crippled and that its revenues
have fallen of. They claim that lottery mat
ter is now practically excluded from the mails
and that the lottery company is confined to the
use OF the express in the distribution of
Its tickets and lottery literature. The
recent arrest Of the president Of
the company for using the mails for the
transmission Of lottery matter is spoken Of by
MI Maynard, the inspector in charge of the
LOUISIANA district, as an evidence OF
the rigid enforcement of the law. He
sy isy' ,ss that .bsa after the passage of the
decided that no attempt would be made to
violate Its provisions and arrangements were
at once made to substitute the express for the
mails. Last December Mr.. Dauphin died and
MS successor, Mr. Conrad, who had been chief
clerk of the company for a number Of years,
decided to try scheme for utilizing the mails.
large number of copies of the opinion
OF the supreme court of the state, which held
that the proposed lottery amendment to the
constitution had been properly enacted by the
v.
The copies were mailable, but Mr.. Conrad con-
cluded to insert in each copy an envelope con-
tanning the printed address of the lottery COM
pany. The latter was not mailable, and as .
result the arrests followed.
MIR. Maynard also secured the arrest Of the
presldent OF the Mexican company, whose head
quarters are located opposite FL Paso in Mexico.
The company had been in the habit of sending
their mail matter over to Ell Paso. thus saving
3 cents on each letter, the difference between
the local postage in the United States and that
from Mexico to this country. The inspectors
were notified, and it happened that on the
very night that Mr.. Maynard and an inspector
were watching in the Ell Paso Office to nab the
person who brought over the lottery mail the
president Of the company himself came in with
the mail 1t was usual to send some clerk across
the river with the mail, but on that occasion
the president was detained rather late at the
office and when he was ready TO go home the
clerks had left. As he had some letters to mail
he concluded to go over to FL Paso and mail
them himself. He went over and walked into
the arms of the inspectors, who were really glad
that he had not sent a clerk. The letters he
carried were mailed and large percentage re-
turned by the persons addressed SO that the
government has a large number of cases
against the president. The business of this
company has also suffered, MIR. Maynard
says, by the operations Of the anti-lot-
terry law. Instead now Of offering
capital prize of 600 the prize is go, 900.
The Louisiana Lottery Company has also re-
duced the size Of the capital prize by refusing
to sell more than half of any one ticket The
capital prize is therefore S150.000 instead Of
$500, 900. Mr.. Maynard considers that this
latter circumstance is a significant indication
that the revenues of the company have fallen
away.
Next spring the people of Louisiana will be
called upon to vote on the amendment to the
constitution which will renew the charter of
fhn nrpr NJ Max-,, ,ar1 he1f flatt H..
amendment will be defeated. He says tina.
the lottery company is bending every energy
in this election. The anti-lottery party. Mr..
Maynard says, has the governor of the state on
its side and a large and respectable representa-
is a cause of political corruption, and for this
reason. independent of anything that can be
urged on grounds of morality, ought to be
abolished. He predicts one of the hottest po-
litical contests ever known in the history of the
Rtate