The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-11
0UR WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES.
LATE NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR
NATIONS CAPITOL.
HUNTING LOTTERY AGENTS
Federal Government Determined to
Drive Them Out Of Business. Sc
cret Service Men Have Been Scour-
aging the Country for Violators.

aging the Country for Violators.
The Secret Service Bureau, coop
Grating with Departmental justice, is
now in position to drive out Of bus
ness, if not into the penisentiaries,
the agents of the Panama, Honduras
and Mexican Lottery Companies,
waich have been making large sales III
one part Of the country and another
in violation Of the Interstate Com
merce Law, which forbids the selling
Of lottery tickets. Chief Clerk Mo-
ran, in the absence Of Chief Wilkie
received from Boston full report
concerning the capture made there
of a dress suit case, the property of
Walter S. Roberts, Of San Francisco
who was arrested in Chicago as the
travelling AGENT Of Hanford & Ell
alns, who have been handling the
tickets in the United States. This
dress suit case contained very valu-
able papers, including about 5000 lot
terry tickets of various denominations.
More important than the tickets, how,
ever, was a list Of the agents employ
I'd by Roberts to sell the tickets in
various communities.
Robert, states Chief Clerk Mo-
ran, twas the travelling agent who
employed the local agents in the cities
and town which he visited to handle
The tickets. We traced him to Bos-
on and located his valise. When he
called at the baggage-room there to
claim 1t he was requested to wait a
moment while a message was sent to
one Of our agents. Growing suspicious
ne left before the agent arrived, and
ook train for Chicago without try
ne to regain his suit case. AS his
rain was approaching Chicago one of
our agents, with a description which
[ had wired him, arrested Roberts.
Copies of all pape found in the suit
ease have been sent me from Boston.
md [ am at work preparing cases
against those who are named as
agents. | am comforting with Assist
mt Attorney General Purdy on the
natter, and shall act on his advice be-
fore making arrests. Where it is
found that these men have been act
ing for any length Of time for the
lottery companies, and they have actu-
ally sold tickets, they will be prose-
suted. In one city we have had a
confession from an agent, but We can
lot prosecute him because he sold no
tickets, having been recently engaged
oy Roberts.
"Not unless the lottery ticket per-
aims to future drawing is the ham
ling of it contrary to law. But where
we have found tickets that were not
1T the time live, and had obtained ev-
idence that theye were live when ham
lied, we can make out case. But
While we may not make out good eases
n all Of the cities which we are in
sestigating, the moral effect will be
rood, and I think there will be fewer
violations of the law in the future.
Roberts has covered the New Eng
and States, and also the Middle West
out I have found very few traces of
lis work in the South. At Mobile we
located an agent, but before he could
oe arrested he disappeared. SO far
have found few violations in Louisi-
ana. Roberts will be taken to San
Francisco for trial, for there the Han
ford & Elkins firm had its headquar-
ters and the strongest case can be
made out against him. However, as
le has violated the law in CINCINNATI
and Boston, he can be taken to either
place fro trial !" Inasmuch as the
ostery tickets lave been sent by ex-
Dress and not through the mails, the
postoffice Inspectors are not engaged
n this investigation.
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chi,
1ese ministA has issued a confiden-
.ial circular or proclamation to all the
Chinese in the United States, request
ng that he be furnished with reports
IF all eases of applicants. who have
been denied admission to this country
md Of all deportations on the ground
II non-registration, which have been
decided since the expiration Of the
exclusion treaty Of 1894. The object
# the circular, as understood by Unit
ed States officials, is to facilitate the
collection of evidence on which to base
a suit. against the United States to
est the validity Of the existing Chi
1ese exclusion laws.
The Panama Canal Commission has
allotted $634,440 for sanitation work
IN the isthmus.
A great deal of nuhlic infaroSt =,