The morning times., 1895-08-19

The branch OF the Kentucky lottery at
Roslyn, brought to public notice by The
Morning Times on Tuesday yIastandpartiaHy /
suppressed by the publication, is likely
soon To be attacked III another quarter by |
District law officials
The law prohibiting policy" as draw
ings of this kind have come tn b. known to ,
distinguish them from the Louisiana lot
terry and its like, is worded so as To in
clude every person concerned in the business
many shape, manner, or form.
It's terms are very sweeping and it is be-
lieved viii be found to bear upon no less a
concern than the Western Union Telegraph
Company If the question Is raised the
company VIII take refuge behind It's
chartered rights as a carrier Of messages /
between States.
The Washington police department, as
well as the District attorney md the judges
before whom such eases come, appears to
BE- very much in earnest in its desire to sup !
press all forms of gambling and all con
nections with such law breaking IN this
District
! came so apparent in the days when Agent
Gould, of the Louisiana company, used TO
run an office that had the appearance
a great banking institution on F street
near Ninth, that public sentiment stands
| squareiy behind the persistent and largely
| successful fight made by the authorities
| against these iniquiues.
LAW AGAINST PROMOTERS.
The law of 1878 against policy" draw
| lngs is written to include any one who
| shall in any way promote such ORA wings
| The Western Union Telegraph Company,
| it is generally believed, receives at its
office in Georgetown the numbers as
| drawn by the Kentucky Lottery Company
at Louisville and sends them by Robert
| Waters, its emplOye or the empIoye Of
the lottery company, DO matter which, To
the house under the CulverJ, back OF
| John c. CIark'S saloon at RnsIyn.
The message comes over a Western Union
wire, is received on an instrument owned
| by the Western Union, Is written on West
| ern Union blank, sealed in Western Union
| envelope, all the work being done by
| Western Union emplOye, and isforwar,ied TO
RosIyn to enafie the agent OF the Kentucky
|
| il has lust been made in Louisville and So
enable the policy runners to come back to
the policy collectors" here, pay over the
meager winnings and collect again the
dimes and quarters, half dollars and dollars
that go to swell the stream OF money that
pours into the Golfers ofths lottery comp pany-
While all this is going on the community
is being corrupted with the desire to get
law is directed. According to goodlawyers
the connection OF the Western Union with
the drawings as set forth here brings the
company clearly withintne reach oftheIaw.
Manager Marean, OF the local office
OF the Western Union, talked last night with
| q Times reporter in regard to the ccnpany's
attitude He said ne did not know whether
| the Western Union was receiving mes
sages giving the lottery drawings or not
| He believed that il was lawful to receive
any message accepted at an office of the
| company elsewhere and to deliver il as
| directed here,
ACCEPTS ALL MESSAGES.
Messages OF u profane or obscene char
| acter would be refused. of course, every
where, but any other message would be
! accepted at Louisville and other offices.
Lottery messages would also be accepted
| here under the existing orders from the
general Offices. Mr Aaredn did not think
that the law against promoting lottery
here would reach the company. be
cause It was local III its application, while
| the business is interstate
He said laws had Teen passed in Indiana
and other States restricting the operations
of telegraph companies, had been enforced
10y he local and STATE courts, but dad, when
| brought to the United States Supreme
| Court, declared invalid because the busi-
| ness was between States. Otherwise one
State might make one law ard another
State make another law directly contrary
to the first The company would then be
punished TO matter which it obeyed.
MIR Marean also cited the case of the
Texas law, which imposed tax of one
cent per message on an business done by
telegraph companies. The Supreme Court
decided that this could be applied to busi-
ness betwecu Texas points but not for any
messages sent outside the State Again a
State fixed tax OF two per cent upon the
gross income of the company in its borders.
The Supreme Court held that the tax could
not be collected, because it included money
paid for Messages sent outside the State
lit would hardly do anyway said Mr..
Mareau, ito have the clerk examine every
message brought in to see whether 1T was
one the company was allowed to send.
That. would be giving too much discretion
TO the clerk. All such a company can do
is to accept and send the messages offeredit,