The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-01

people are, and believed that the adop..
lion of the second report would send
oyer the country q shock that would RUN I
the Exhibition. He was vigorously OPP.
poaed by Messrs. Donaldson lind. md
Nelson (Ala,, whose arg uments we're
expressed substantially in the minority
report. Messfs. Peters (Ga. and Aeck-
er tCol.) favored compromise BY open.
ing the grounds, Main Building and Art
Gallery, but closing the rest.
.--.-- PURITANs vs. KPIsCoPALIANs- -
Mr.. Nelson denounced the old Puri-
tan,c idea of Sunday (which forbade
man to kiss his wife on that day" VI
am an Episcopalian," said he, sand the
Puritans burned my ancestors" "ln
England" remarked General Hawiey,
apparently nettled by the reflection on
his own Nutmeg Stated, ut was the other
way; hence our ancestors came here.
SIN our churches" said Mr.. Donaldson,
1--WE have choirs and musical instruments;
we worship God through the medium OF
the true and beautiful; If 1t be right 10
worship the true and beautiful, then let
the people do SO on any day they please"
Here Richard G. McC ormick (Arizona)
produced copy OF yesterdays Times,
saying 'that here was a leader OF public
opinion maintaining, in an editorial, the
very doctrine on this subject which he
advocated before the Commission"
"Yes, and see here" "here too" "and
here" exclaimed dozen voices, as twice
that number of copies of the Times were
taken out of coat-tail pockets. One by
one the opposing parties, now on this side,
now on the other arose and delivered
with triumphant elocution, the various
sentiments tor or against open
ing, as expressed by leading min
listers of all the religious denomi-
nations, and PUBLISHED in the Times
Here's Bishop Simpsons" said one.
"Not good authority down South" re.
marked Mr.. Neison, of Alabama. 1t
was read, however, as well as the rest.
Robert Mallory (Ky.) favored q COM
promise by opening the grounds FREE to
the public. President Hawley then,
having left the chair, made stirring
address, in which he said: "Your Chris
tian Sabbath is gone if you risk it as
now proposed, and one hundred years
from now the American people, whose
observance of it heretofore has been 30
remarkably strict, will say you began its
decline. Are you willing to shoulder
such responsibility? For my part am
not, and here clear myself from it for
ever; vote against it; there may be Pu-
ritanical ideas, but they are mine; l have
no other and will uphold them. Now is
the time to decide; now or never; the eyes
of the world are upon you, and if you
open the Exhibition on Sunday the re-
ligious newspapers will make war upon
you; you will, it l may say it, lose money
by it. Looking at it in this aspect, you
find the shrewdest business men respect
ing the Sabbath. Did you ever know
Barnum to ruin circus on Sunday? 1t
would, besides, be Il breach of faith; l
don't believe you could have obtained a
dollar from Congress had you not, two
years ago. decided against opeAing the
Exhibition on the Sabbath" Messrs.
Holiday (Vs.) and Haines New sup
ported Gen. Hawley.
THE EXHIBITION CLOSED, BUT THE
GROUNDS OPEN FREE.
A vote was then taken or the question:
'Shall the Exhibition be open on Sum-
day?' resulting as follows, the vote being
taken by States: Yeas-Alabsma, Ar
kansas, California, Colorado. Idaho, Min
nesota, Montana, South Carolina and
Washington Territory. Nays--Arizona,
Connecticut, Dakota, District of Colum
bia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa.
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ne
brasks, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvanla. Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Yer
mont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wis
consin.
A motion, then made by Mr.. Latrobe
(Ind.), to open the grounds rec to all on
Sundays, but to close all the buildings,
including the restaurants, was carried.
After the adoption of a resolution to
forward to President Grant a schedule of
the ceremonies of Opening Day, as read
by General Hawley, the Commissioners
adjourned.