Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — A National Holiday. [ARTICLE]

A National Holiday.

The only holiday that exists In the United States by statuary enactment Is Labor Day, which, driving 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, halt made no staton’the subject. On Washington's birthday and on Decoration Day Congress Invariably pdjourns, “out of respeqt to the illustrious dead," but not even the Fourth of July is recognized on onr national statutes as a holiday. Nearly all the States, however, have, through their legislative bodies, recognized the various common holidays as legal.