Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-04
The Memorial Of the American sabbath
Union Presented 10 the Worlds
Fair Comniission.
SPEECHES ~ FAVOR OF SUNDAY
CLOSING.
Action Deferred Until the Local
Director. Have Made and Sub.
miiiod Their Rules.
Aciion on the SrnGny question Defer.
red ~ Present.


CHICAGO, sept. 3.-rho national
Columbian commission reasscmblcd
at 10 O'Clock this morning. A res0lu-
ton was passed Inviting the beard "
lndy mauagora 10 bc present and alt
with the National commission during
the prcscntntiOn ~ the memorial Of tho
American Sabbath Union for closing
the exposition on Sundhys. The nom.
lnation II l.. ". Robinson, Of tile fn.
ginecr corps, United States navy, IN bs
chief Of the department Of machinery,
was unanimously confirmed.
After some other unimportnnt bust
ness recess was taken pending the
arrival " the delegation from tho
Afietlcan Sabbath Union, aud tbs
lady managers.
rIrr SUNDAY QUESTION.
The mcmbcrs of the sabbath Union
and board v lady managers arrived
shortly bcfotv ll.al. Colonel shepard,
~ president OF the American sabbath
Union, presented the memorial Of tho
uuiOn Praying for the closing Of the
fair on sundays. lie also, n- president
OF the sabbath Observance committee
" the general assembly of the Prusby-
terrain church, presented a petition from
that body 20 tho same end. Several
mrubcrs " tho union then male
speeches IN favor Of Sunday closing,
among them being Ruv. Sylvester
Scuuyillp, president " Wooster college,
Wooster, ohio, General q. %. Howard,
Rev. I. l.. Icrnlry, VI Philadelphia,
and Colonel Alexander :. Maitland, OF
Brooklyn. Hon. Thomas y. CONN,
Of Iowa, representing the brotherhood
o. Railway TrAiumsn, presented tho
y beet on behalf Of that organization
aud u the wage earneru In
general. Rev. Francis Patton, presi-
dent Of Princeton university, then
| presented the question from Biblical
point Of view. Mn. n. l.. Care pre-
scented tho Views of ten thousand mem.
bers Of the w. &. T. u. The meeting
then took n rrcess.
Ia rcasscmbllng It WIS announced
that on the clo-lng qurstion action
would he deferred until the local dirvo-
tors have made their rules and submit
ted them to the commission Tor APP
| prevail.
After a sklrmlsh. the report " the
committee on classification w1 adopt
cd. IL establishes practically without
a single change
the PLAN OF oLAssfFfcATIuS
arranged 10y Vice President NJ. II. Do
Young. The report Of the auditing
committee also passed muster. The
consideration Of sj,O00,O10 loan by tho
government was called up ns a special
order aud Vice President DE Young
offered resolution referring the whole
subject 10 the Judiciary committee with
Instructions ~ report Ia favor Ui
the lOAns. Commissioner Mckeu-
Gle of Kentucky argued against
the sudden proposal TO the
country 10 lend the fair such large
sum, and wanted IL postponed until
the April meeting. DE Young then
amended his motion, leaving the COM
miltec 10 report according TO their own
disctptiOns. An adjournment was
then taken until tomorrow.
Tonight the judiciary committee met
and promptly agreed upon n report on.
dUrslng the appeal Of the Chicago
directors 70 Congress for the loan OF
the sum named, the government TO
take ~ security lien upon the first
receipts Of the exposition.
The local directory today formally
confirmed the nominations Of j. NJ
5amuels OF Kentucky rs chief Of this
horticultural department, l.. w. Rob
insOn OF the United States Navy nj
chief OF machinery aud III. \. Pea
body Of Illinois, M chief Of the de
partmcnt Of liberal arts. They had
already been confirmed by the national
board Of control aud aro now duly ap-
pOintod.