The federal statute of 1895, which makes it a criminal offense to carry from one state to another any paper purporting to be or represent a ticket, chance, share or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, has no application to a paper or document containing only figures representing the result of a lottery drawing.184

Congress has power to designate what may be carried in the mail and what may be excluded, and congress may prohibit the distribution of matter relating to lotteries as injurious to public morals.185