Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — SUNDAY LAW IN LOUISIANA. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY LAW IN LOUISIANA.

»■ * - . It Passes Both Branches of the Legislature —Saloon Keepers Will Fight It. [New Orleans Special.] The State Senate, by a vote of 25 to 6, passed the Sunday law as it came from the Houuse, with a few minor amendments. T£e law prohibits the opening on Sunday o£ any place of business whatever, except newspaper and printing offices, book stores, drug stories, apothecary-shops; undertakershops, public and private markets, bakeries, livery stables, railroads, whether steam or horse, hotels, dairies, boarding-houses, steamboats and other vessels, warehouses for receiving and forwarding freights, ’restaurants, telegraph offices, and theaters, or any place of amusement, providing no intoxicating liquors are sold on the premises. The bill will go back to the Abuse, where it will probably meet with little opposition. The law will be vigorously contested before the courts by saloon-keepers of this city and others