Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — A National Holiday. [ARTICLE]

A National Holiday.

The only holiday that exist* in the United States by statuary enactment is Labor Day, which, during the second session of the Fifty-third Congress, was made a holiday In the District of Columbia. Congress has frequently recognized the existence of others, but with this exception, has made no statutory enactment on the subject. On Washington’s birthday and on Decoration Day Congress Invariably adjourns, “out of respect to the Illustrious dead,” but not even the Fourth of July Is recognized on our national statutes as a holiday. Nearly all the States, however, have, through their legislative bodies, recognized the various conimou holidays as legal.