Show NORTH DAKOTA LOTTERY working orling ff the legislature to legalize the tho easiness business the th Enor moin strength of f the lh lobby ml and shrewd bilik comments la in washington Washing ta STANDARD S F chronicle service ST PAUL feb 7 dispatches from various points in north indicate that the people are greatly exercised over tle the probable passage of an act legalizing lotteries which has a already 1 r e a 1 p passed i lie se senate a t e as an yd ras alie cha es slit i i 0 u i c e i in abo press in p a t it would appear from front the dispatches received today to day that there is a deep laid scheme behind the measure the folio following wing dispatches from jamestown bes best t explain the matter that the better class of people of this alace place and of this vicinity were dazed daze at the report that tha the legislature is la seriously proposing to transfer bodily the louisiana oui state lottery to north dakota is putting it mildly it seems that tho the charter of the lottery in the former state will expire by limitation in 1835 and th lining 4 ag slature is forbidden by the constitution to legalize its existence longer the tile managers of the great robbery in casting about for a location have bit hit u upon this state as about the ilia only one apon in which they might hope to secure a legalized existence oar our constitution contains no inhibition against the chartering of lotteries and therefore ita its incorporation here would be perfectly y lawful 1 as ag lotteries are recognized by the common world and were never pr prohibited in england intili until 1830 r i a pretense and pretext under which this ou on rage rago is to ba be accomplished are the present am pin barr assed condolon of the state finances it is n proposed that theloa the lottery company shall pay the state a license of a year the combination baa has developed ample strength nuth to pas the meas measure urt by a large majority in the legislature wn it is developed that he the governor will 11 veto the bill and a combination Is now forming to make sure of the nece ne ceBary eary two thirds with which to pass it over his veto it is conceded that they have already secured the necessary number in the bouse house the purpose is to establish a lottery here which shall control our politics in future as abio absolutely lately uit as it is pow now done by the same power in louisiana iana the formidable dimensions which the co ca hai has already assumed 8 um d have had the effect to halmi dale date many public men wha at heart are against it scon summation it is almost universal universally lv cin conceded ceded that any public man who opposes it will have no future in this state if the scheme through though successfully on oa the ether utter band I 1 it t is also conceded thatis that if it should fail those theme who have been identify d with it will be wrecked politically it is already the cry at bismarck Bia marck that nothing can defeat it and those who waver at are 0 urged to get on the tile band wagon W wh it ie Is there is still time money is being used to an dent dentt d degree and those who cannot be reached in this ay are threatened fl glittered flittered flitt ered or cajoled as occasion cajoled r requires eq aires al all legi legislation Is block blocked e d 1 no man can now got any measures of importance through unless be he comes into the C combine in baue and agrees to support it many votes have been secured in this wa way y it has been the great and all absorbing topic of conversation in bismarck now for ten days or more and indeed was first broached in december and yet not an inkling of it has ever appeared in the pap are until lately the bill is general in its character and would not especially name the louisana loui Lou idana iana lottery company but would prescribe certain condition conditions which only that company can comply with will it will also provide for the payment into lie the tate treasury of 0 a large sum earn of money within a day or two after the passage of f the bill which of course will bo be immediately complied with by tile the lottery company and this will it I 1 give it vested rights which no future can abrogate the bill has been drawn by borne of the ablest lawyers lawyer in the united states and will undoubtedly lv stand if passed governor miller will oppose the bill by eiery every means in ili hii power all sorts of specious arguments have been used to secure support for the bill the tile bunks banks are promised large deposits and specific sums have been named w inch certain ones of them would got get the farmers are told that it will not only relieve the tile stale state of its present financial embarrassment but that it will abo flord the state with money in the shape of deposits in th the banks ebanks which will ill e enable nab lethem them the farmers to borrow a at talo a low wrate rate of interest A dispatch dia patch from bismarck says no one denies that it is the louisiana lottery that is to bo be transplanted to northern soil and it is informally Y announced tonight to night that the tile lou louisiana islands company would give cash to the see seed dw wheat b a a t I 1 fund U n d im immediately 11 upon the bill becoming a ia law prena feb 7 the news of the by one branch of the north dakota legislature of the bill chartering and legalizing lottery has ban attracted much attention in official circles I 1 in view especially of the telegraphic advices advises that the action win is in behalf of 1 a branch ot of the louisiana lottery against which the post root office and the department of oil justice have been waging a contest for many years at the white house it ia i intimated that reports have reached the president that persons who have been appointed to office offic eor or were candidates for appointment were promoting this legislation and it was added should this prove to be the case it would likely prove fatal to them A further remark was to tile effect ell act that it waa wall not bellev believed td possible that the new state would adopt a measure that would put 8 BO a indelible a stain upon its reputation postmaster general wanamaker said As postmaster general I 1 cannot bg be interviewed upon the tile subject further than to express my regret billat illat clial the tile mails malls or any machinery of the tile government should be used to any extent in any part of the country for the furtherance of lottery schemes but as a citizen I 1 am free to say it is cause fur great alarm when a new state to spread the tile evil over a new country and extend a apelles species of gambling ambling that ruina ruing the you young g and defudis deludes the ignorant for the enrichment mentoe of a few unscrupulous stockholders if this kind of legislation is to be a success congress m must us t be invoked to enact laws to surp reps this us business everywhere 1 I was astonished beyond measure eaid paid attorney general miller ais this afternoon L had holad and believed the day of chartering lotteries gone by that the louisiana state lottery for instance is ft a public evil 1 I think is its generally conceded a and n d I 1 as little expected the legislature of north dakota to sanction a lottery that the legislature of 11 2 chubs betts would legalize a feli felony ony I 1 W kii |