The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01
ny JOHN ELrngrn WATKINS.

! The gambling octupug which some
States scotehed, the Federal govern.
inent Is preparing TO Kill The whole
sale raid the other day upon the
bucket.shop barons, with their chain
ot over $50 strorgholds, was but the
initial blow OF the battle.
a weapon that Will bp BIB sure as II
is awful in It's effect Dpon any form
OF organized gambling toward which
1t may be aimed Is now being forged
by some of the nation's lawmakers 1t
is another OF those potent instruments,
like tho pure food law, which gets It's
power from that tremendous central
dynamo, the Interstate commerce
clause With this Instrument the
monster will be paralyzed and from
It's bloated body Will be uprooted those
nerves and arteries upon which 1t de-
Ponds for It's action, It's very ifc. In
other words. professional gamblers
will bc excluded from the use OF the
Interstate telephone and telegraph
lines OF the country, as they are from
the use OF the mail and express bust
ness.
Four dayg after the general bucket
shop raids the House Committee on
Agriculture favorably reported a bill
to thus close the telegraph and tele.
pune btINIccb- 10 III cotspt'
options. The father of this bill lis
Representative Charles f. Scott dSan-
aas). chairman Of the House Commit
tee on Agriculture. This Is but one OF
thirteen bills aimed at gambling in
agricultural "futures' which are now
upon the House calendar
Race gamblers arc likewise exclud-
ed from use of the telephone and tele-
graph by bill introduced by Senator
Burkett tNebraska). upon which the
Senate judiciary Committee has been
holding hearings
a New secret Service Force.
new secret service force ha
grown up since President Roosevelt's
quarrel with Congress resulted In the
statutory Limitation of the activities OF
Chief John u. WILKES detective force
TO counterfeiting cases. The new or
ganization Is officially known as the
Bureau of investigation" and Is un-
der the direction OF Stanley w. Finch,
1t is u bureau of the Department of
Justice, and the Attorney General Is
employing * in the collection of evil
dence In anti-trusi as we'll as anti
graft CAGES.
IL is already the largest detective
force under the government. having
upward of 200 men OF it's own, besides
JUU Inltcu states deputy ihbFShdls,
subject to its call. chief Finch has
been connected with the Department
of Justice for seventeen years. ten of
which were spent in the field as an
examiner detailed to collect evidence
in caseA before the Federal courts
scattered over the United states and
Alaska. Then for six years he was
chief examiner in charge of this work.
all of which time he was familiarzins
himself with men and affairs through
out our entire continental jurisdiction
an ideal training for the chief of a
big detective force.
The bucket-shop octopus made q ia
tai step when ~ dared to grasp
Washington with one OF Its greedy
tentacies. just after the enactment of
n recent law which makes bucket
shopping in the District of Columbia
an offense against the United States
for which violator can spend two
years in the penitentiary. besides pay.
Ing fine OF $4,000.
Had this one tentacle not reached
Within the sacred limits Of the ma
tional capital the Federal authorities
would have had no jurisdiction. But
this one tentacie made the whole
monster trespasser upon Uncle Sam,
and gave him the right to strike not