Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-09
WANT A QUIET SABBATH.
City Commissioners of Washington
Ask Congress to Pass Law.

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Ask Congress to Pass a Law.
Mrs. Harrison Sets "Society" Cos
sipping-Edmunds on Temper
ance and Education.
From Our Special Correspondent;
IL is said that the District of Columbia
and California are the only pl ces in the
country where II Sunday observance law
is not in force, and this fact has impelled
the city commissioners OF Washington TO
ask congress for such "A law. President
Harrison heartily indorses this request,
and an earnest effort will be made TO Sc
cure the passage, during the present SEES
sion, OF bill with this object in view.
Several measures for Sabbath legislation
will be introduced in the house OF repre-
sentatives, and among them one prepared
by the Sabbath Union, entitled, "a bill to
secure to all persons their right TO day of
rest" The bill provides that il shall be
unlawful for any person, corporation,
agent, servant or employe of any person
or corporation, or in the service of the
United States, District of Columbi or ter
ritories, to perform any secular labor or
business, or TO cause the same TO be per-
formed by any person in their employ, on
Sunday, except of works Of necessity and
mercy. Nor shall il be wful for any per.
son or corporation to receive pay for labor
tion of this law is punisha ole by fine OF
not less than ten nor more than one hun
dred dollars. Persons who consc.enIiously
observe any other day than unday as a
day of rest, are exempt from the provisions
OF this law.
A few days ago Senator Edmunds wrote
to the city commissioners of Washington
requesting list OF all persons selling liq-
uors by wholesale or retail in the District
and outside the city limits. Senator Ed
mupds says that licenses should be refused
to all places within mile of the Soldiers
Home, in the interest of the disabled sol
diers. When they receive their monthly
pensions, the old veterans go straight to
the saloons where their money Is taken
from them and they are made Intoxicated.
In very many cases the poor old veterans
are not capable Of taking care OF them
selves, and Senator Edmunds thinks con-
gress should take some action for their
protection, or at least make il unlawful to
grant a license To any saloon within mile
of the soldiers home, and at an early day
will introduce bill embodying his ideas
on this subject.
Another idea of Senator Edmunds is that
there should be established in Washington
Il national university, non-sectari n, and
open TO Catholics and Jews as well as 10
Protestants, and he has introduced bill
for the establishment of such an institu-
ton. The idea is not original with the
Vermont senator, however, as such a
scheme was suggested to the trainers OF
the constitution, and rejected by them, al
though such eminent men as Washington,
Madison, Hamilton, James Wilson and
Gov. Morris urged both the power and
the advisability of establishing such an in
stitution.
The code of ethics of official society at
ha nati nlWAVQ o.
garded Us unalterable as the laws OF the
Modes and Persians. Notwithstanding
this, Mrs. Harrison has dared 70 step out
of the path In which her predecessors have
walked, and by doing so has stirred up
regular hornets nest among the wives OF
the members OF the cabinet
Owing to the death of her sister Mrs.
Harrison did not take part in the New
Years reception but delegated her daugh-
first lady in the land. According to the
"code," Mrs. Morton, wife Of the Vice
President, is the lady upon whom this hon.
or should have been conferred, or, in case
her inability TO perform the duties OF the
occasion, upon the wife of some member Of
the presidents cabinet, according 70 the
Official Importance of her husband in the
cabinet The wives of the members OF the
cabinet are very indignant over this insult
and are wondering If in the event of Mrs.
Harrison's inability to perform the duties
of the first lady of the land, +" Mrs Mckee,
the wife OF a private citizen, is to out-rank
them on all state occasions.
The influenza, or scientifically speaking
"La grippe" is no respector of persons, and
has attacked several prominent members
of both houses of congress as well as
number of prominent government officials,
and from ever quarter the sneeze and
cough is 50 frequent and pronounced as to
drown the voices of the disappointed seek
ers after government positions. In fact
the Russian epidemic has such grip
upon some that the government business is
seriously impeded in consequence.
During the holiday recess the members
of the ways and means committee have
been engaged with the tariff question The
result of their deliberations will not be
known until the report has been submitted
it certain that radical changes will be
made in the existing tariff laws.
After an absence or several years in
Europe educating her sons, Mrs. Hale,
wife of Senator Hale of Name. and
daughter OF Zach Chandler of Michigan,
has returned to Washington. 1t is said
that her mother, Mrs. Chandler, will soon
erect "a palatial residence on Que Of the
finest sites in the city, and with her
daughter and grandchildren, make it her
of the closing years of Senator Chambers
life were passed in the enjoyment of the
society OF his daughter and her three sons,
and Mrs. Chandler is anxious TO pass her
LAST days amid surroundings so congenial
TO her husband.