The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-16
SUNDAY LAW
Tackled by the Ohio LegiSla-
ture.
1t Fails to Pass, but will be Reconsid.
ered-The Vote in
Detail,

COLUMBUS, Feb. 14.-Late this after
noon the Smith Sunday law came up for
third reading in the House. Mr.. Smith
offered an amendment, which has been
before alluded to in these dispatches,
providing that only regular constituted
drug stores shall be permitted to sell
liquors on the written prescription of a
physician on Sunday. The amendment
was agreed to, as was also an amend
ment proposed by Mr.. Licey cutting out
the words "Of resort" and usually in
the first line of the bill. Mr.. Licey
made ringing five minutes speech in
favor of the passage of the bill, in
which he took the high ground that the
observance of the Christian Sabbath
was necessary to maintain and uphold
Christian civilization.
Mr.. Smith followed in a speech of con-
siderable length in favor of his proposed
amendment to the Sunday law. Mr..
Green, of CuyahOga, opposed the bill in
a set speech.
After some further cross firing, a call
of the House was demanded and only
81 of the 105 members answered. Just
where the other twenty four were, or
why they just happened to be alb
sent at this particular time, has not
been fully explained. With so small a
number of members present the friends
of the bill did not expect it to pass, and
consequently, when the vote was taken
on the passage of the bill, Mr.. Smith
voted against it in order to be in pO-
sitiOn to move its reconsideration at a
more favorable time. The vote stood 81
yeas to Il nays. Counting Mr.. Smiths
vote for the bill, 1t only lacked one of
being enough to carry it through. Those
who voted for the bill were:
AlaVanHar Allan RrOOkG Car-
Isle, Conrad, Cooper, Devereux, Geat,
Graham, Greiner, Gordon, Heady, Had
ley, Hall, Hathaway, Highlands, Hop
kins, Hughes, Jones, of Delaware, Jones,
of jackson, Kathcart, KOons, KurtZ,
Laird, Lilly, Linton, Littler, Locke,
Love, Mccullough, McGayTen, Moore, of
WashingtO, Ogden, Patterson, Pollock,
Price, Pugsly, Robinson, Ross, Sheppard
Snyder, Stanbury, Stems, Strong, Sharp,
Van Dorm, Walker, Warren, WetmOre
WOOdwOrth.
Those who voted against it were:
Bell, Bloch, Brady, Brenner, Brown
field, Cunningham, Decker, Green, of
CuyahOga, HOlbrOOk, Huntington, Kahle,
Maury, Moore, of Pike, Negley, Peel
Puckrin, Russell, Smith, StillWell, Val
landigham, Wheeler. Those not voting
weTe BargaT, BOweTsOx, BrunneT
Card, Cochran, Cory, COTyeIl, Dunham,
Ellsworth, Frame, Freese, Green, of
Shelby, Hays, KahlO, Kearney. McCTary,
Mcfarland, Miller, Metcalf, Poor, Pow
ers, Reese, Scott, Sharp, Of Fairfield,
ThOrp of Holmes, Swayne, Tyler, Wag-
ner, Wallace, WetzeI, Wright, Yates and
Hodge.
Among those recorded as absent and
not voting were several staunch friends
of this measure in the interest of
law and order who were not aware that
the bill was coming up to-day.
The Republicans who voted against
the bill were Messrs. Bloch and Green,
of CuyahOga; Huntington, Peet, Russell
and Smith. Of the Hamilton county
delegation, Messrs. DevereuX, Cooper,
Highlands and Warren voted for the
bill; Messrs. Huntington, Peet and Rus
sell voted against it. Messrs. Wetzel,
Poor and Kearney did not vote. Of the
CuyahOga delegation Green and Bloch
voted against the bill, and the other
members of the delegation lodged the
issue by not voting at all. The bill will
probably be recOnsideTed tomorrow,
and will undoubtedly pass the House.