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Show Tlie action of the postmaster of E Paso in refusing to allow the El Paso Timet to be transmitted through the mail simply because it contained as news an Associated Press dispatch giving a gynop Bis of tho opinion of the Supreme Court of Louisiana compelling the Secretary of State to submit at the next election a constitutional amendmont passed by the last general assembly extending the charter of the Louisiana Slate Lottery twenty-live years, is deuer virtu of the severest condemnation and censure, not only because of the injustice of such an arbitrary proceeding, but upon grounds of public policy. The business manager of the Times very properly had this postmaster, post-master, who bears the historic name of Smith, arrested for unlawfully detaining mail mutter, and he was bound over to appear before a commissioner foi (.rial, but tbo punishment whatever it will be, evtin if ever moted out after many months of delay, will not fit thu crime. Nothing short of absolute and immediate olticitil decapitation, with whatever other punishment the law provides, would be proper for such ollicious intermeddling with the mails. If the United States mail is to be subjected to such scrutiny and exclusion by the postmaster at LI Paso, the postmasters at the various other cities, towns, villages, hamlets and crossroads in the Slae and throughout the Unjted States have the saine right, power and authority, and are of courso at liberty to do just as the postmaster at El PaHo has done. If the postmaster can stop the transmission of a newspaper because it has in it the decision of a court in regard to the Louisiana lottery, he can also stop it because it mentions the name of the lottery in it, and if ho can do this he can stop the Post, because it incidentally ment ions the name of the Louisiana Lottery Company iu cr-ilir.ls-ing Ids ollicial conduct. If lie can do this, however, be can override the strongest bulwark of the liberties of the people and violate one of the plainest provisions in the const i tut ion of the United Slates, thereby completely throttling throt-tling the press. Upon grounds of public policy the United Suites government should not tolernte such tampering with the mail. It throws open the doore to fraud and, if permitted, will tend to make the service ser-vice Inellicient and unreliable. Why not detain a letter suspected of containing contain-ing a lottery advertisement, and why notopenitto ascertain if the detention is legal? If its contents are legal why then of course it might be permitted lo continue on its journey. The great wrong done newspaper publishers, pub-lishers, however, is to allow a postmaster to uulhontlively detain mail matter which in his opinion is illegal. He ought not to be permitted to do this. If the publisher has committed any wrong be can lie linkl responsible and be made to sutler the penalty ; out a postmaster may detain an entire edition of a newspaper, news-paper, entailing a heavy loss upon the publisher, nnd yet when the matter' conn's lo a final trial the court may de- j i cide that the papers are rnailable, The; j dnmnge has then been done the publisher, pub-lisher, and there seems to be no adequate remedy lr him. Suppose tho politics! of a newspaper are objectionable to the po-tniastera generally, ant' Ihroughuut the Stale Ihev choose to hold a paper j because in their opinion it is not ruail-abh ruail-abh it would thus put it within thei 1 power of ihe postal department to stop j the circulation of a newspaper and bank- nipt it, leaving the publisher with a lot i of suits against postmasters as aspeig. ' I Such a state of affairs leavei new$paKT j i publishers without adequate remedy,! and to allow such arbitrary conduct on' the part of officious postmasters is con- ( trary to the institutions of this govern-1 ment, and a violation of tlie legal maxim that each wrong has iia adequate rem-1 ' edy. Houston (Tex.; Pott, May 16. 1 : " |