Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1890 — NO DAKOTA LOTTERY. [ARTICLE]

NO DAKOTA LOTTERY.

The Scheme Virtually Abandoned by its Backers. Bismarck (N. D.‘, dispatch: The infamous scheme to give the Louisiana lottery a legal foothold in this State was squelched with a suddenness that made some of its supporters dizzy. A careful canvass of the House membership convinced ex-Senator Spencer of Alabama, attorney for the company, who has been doing all the plugging for the Sandagger lottery bill, that he could not secure t,he necessary two-thirds vote. He then decided to abandon the fight and instructed his workers to lay down their hands. When the bill came up in the House for its second reading Representative Walsh moved to indefinitely nostpone consideration of it. Walsh had been favoring the bill, and this action on his part was (ieconded by Representative Stevens, who had also favored it. Representative Walsh explained that the object of the motion to indefinitely postpone was to takethe bill out of the way of other legislation and permit the business of the session to proceed. Representative Stevens stgted in reply to a charge of the minority that if this was to shut off the investigation of the bill that he desired to see the investigation proceed. A vote being taken, the motion to indefinitely postpone the bill carried. This, it is believed, is the death knell of the bill, and its opponents are jubilant. In the Senate, Bell, a Democrat, introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the charges of bribery on the bill, and also included the State Republican convention and the United States Senatorial fight. No sooner had the resolution been introduced than Senator La Moure, Republican, rose and resented the reflection that this resolution cast on the Republican party of the State. The resolution avas passed by a unanimous vote, and Messrs. Robinson, Haggart, and Harmon, Republicans, and McCormack and Mcßride, Democrats, were appointed as the committee. Already subpoenas have been issued for a number of the most prominent Republicans in the State to appear before the committee. They are E. W. Camp of Jamestown, reporter of the Supreme court; E. P.; Wells, State Senator Bailey, Fuller andi T. B. Casey of Minneapolis. Others who have been summoned are Lieut.-Gov. Dickey and Jesse Fry of Jamestown; George Carpenter of Williston, and N. C. Fanning of New Rockford.