Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — SUNDAY CLOSERS WIN. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY CLOSERS WIN.

Justices Woods and Jenkins Say the Fair Must Be Shut. Judges Woods and Jenkins, constituting a ma ority of the United States Court considering the case of the United States against the World’s Columbian Exposition, rendered decisions in favor of' granting an injunction compelling the local directory to close the World’s Fair on Sundays. Judge Grosscun dissented from this finding, and Edwin Walker, counsel for the Exposition company, prays for an appeal from the decision ot the majority of the court. This appeal is based on the allegation that the decisions of Judges Woods and Jenkins, especially the one of Judge Jenkins, go far beyond the mere .matter of Sunday opening or closing, establishes new liabilities for the local directory and should be considered at once by the Court of Appeals. When the judges took their seats on the tench it was evident, according to a Chicago correspondent, that they were divided in opinion. Judge Woods said as much when he announced: “Each judge will give his decision neparately,” and then proceeded to deliver his own. Judge Woods held in favor of granting the injuncti n on the ground that the United States Government is in actual possession of Jackson Park, and Congress has a right to pass any law regarding the conduct of the Fair It may think best. He thought that the act. of 1890 establishing the Fair made it a national institution, and that when the State Legislature of Illinois and the South Park Commissioners afterward legislated so as to allow the use of Jackson Park, they did it with a full knowledge of this fact. The people of the State of Illinois satisfied the legislative action by voting to allow Chicago to issue bonds in aid ot the Fair, so that the Legislature, the Park Commissioners, and the people themselves all united to give the use of Jackson Park to the Fair after the General Government had established that Fair as a national enterprise. On tiese grounds Judge Woods held that when thq Local Directory last fall tendered Jackson Park to the National Commissioners as the representatives of the United States Government it tendered the actual possession of the park, and the present temporary title to the park is now in the United States. Having this title Congress has the right to pass any law it pleases regarding Sunday opening, and also can go into a court of equity to enforce its rights. Overflow of News. The Palouse City Bank ot Palouse, Wash., has suspended. Knox College voted the degree of master of arts to Eugene Field. A finback whale forty feet long was killed by fishermen off Sandwich, Mass. An earthquake shock was experienced in San Francisco and Oakland, .Cal. It is known that the notorious Stan gang committed the Bentonville, Mo., bank robbery.