Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — WILL CLOSE SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

WILL CLOSE SUNDAY.

The SenateTTakes Decisive Action in th« Matter. The United Senate, by a vote of 51 tc 14, has approved the $5,000,000 appropriation in aid of the World’s Fair. Attached to the appropriation is the following important proviso: “That the appropriation provided in this act shall be upon condition that the said World’s Columbian Exposition shall be closed on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.” Another condition of equal importance has been attached, although it is likely to be struck out on a reconsideration. Ii is as follows: “Provided the sale of intoxioating liquor on the Exposition grounds shall be prohibited, except for medical, botanical, of scientific purposes." The final contest on the World’s Fair items came up in the Senate Wednesday afternoon as the climax to the three successive days of debate which) have been given the subject. Through a fiction of the Senate the bill was not before the Senate itself, but before the “committee of the whole” for preliminary revision and amendments. It was in this committee of the whole that the important action was taken, so that there is still opportunity for change when the committee of the whole reports to the full Senate The votes were so decisive, however, that there is no possibility of change upon the $5,000,000 appropriation or upon the Sunday question. According to a Washington dispatch, there is a cer: ainty that an effort will be made to strike out the liquor prohibition, and, as this was passed by only two majority, the prospects are that the prohibition will be eliminated. The two Illinois Senators who voted for the liquor prohibition have determined to change their votes, which is sufficient to change the narrow majority which was given on the first vote.