Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-14
QUAY'S POINT CARRIED.

The Senate Refuses to Give Chicago Finan-
cial Aid IL the Big Fair Is to BE Open on
Sunday-No Liquor Must Be Sold at Any
Time.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-The friends of
a due observance of Sunday and the friends
of temperance have alike much reason to be
satisfied with the action of the Senate to-
dav on the provision for issuing, in aid of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 10, ,000,-
OCO souvenir half dollars. The amendment
offered by Mr. Quay, coupling with that
provision the condition that the Exposition
shall not be opened on Sundays, was carried
bv large majority, and one offered by Mr..
Peffer, prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within the Exposition grounds, was
carried by q majority of two. The main
proposition, as reported from the Committee
on Appropriations, was agreed to without a
division.
All of this action, however, was in COM
mittee of the whole, and will be subject to
change when the bill is reported back to
the Senate There will certainly be an eff
fort to defeat, at least, Mr.. Peffer's amend
ment
Without any morning business the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was taken up
the pending question being Mr.. Quay's Sum-
day-closing amendment to the section pro-
viding for the issue of 10000, 600 souvenir
half dollars in aid of the Columbian Expo
sition, speeches to be limited to five min
utes.
Only Eleven Votes for Opening.
Mr.. PETER gave notice of a substitute to
the section appropriating $1,000, 900 on con-
dition of an agreement being entered into
for repayment of the amount within two
years.
Mr.. Sanders moved to lay Mr.. Quay's
amendment on tine table. Rejected-Yeas,
IL; nays, 45. The Senators voting to lay on
the table were Messrs. Blodgett, Carlisle,
Daniel, Gibson (Maryland), Palmer, Hun
ton, PETER, Sanders, Sawyer, Villas and
Vest
Mr.. Quay's amendment was then agreed
to without a division.
Mr.. Peffer offered an amendment to add
to the section a provision prohibiting the
sale or giving away of Intoxicating LIQUORS
on the Exposition grounds, except Tor medi-
cal, mechanical or scientific purposes Mr.
PETER subsequently modified the amend
ment by making it apply merely to the sale
of liquor.
MIR. Vest ridiculed the amendment and
said that the eminent reformers'' who had
taken hold of the matter ought, in order to
be consistent, to include cigarette smoking"
in their denunciation, it being much more to
be deprecated than the drinking of glass
of beer or wine. But the whole thing was
rank hypocrisy and Senators knew it-rank
hypocrisy.
Morality Begins a4 Home.
If Senators wanted to commence such re-
forms, asked the speaker, why did they not
commence them right in the Capitol? Every
Senator knew that he could go to the Senate
restaurant and get all the liquor he wanted
if he had the money to pay for it.
Laughter He could buy it, too, from a
citizen of Name the headquarters of prohi-
bition. The Committee on Rules did not
attack it; the Senator from Pennsylvania,
who had recently got up on pedestal as a
great moral refomer, did not attack it. The
question was taken and Mr.. PETERS anti
liquor amendment was agreed to-Yeas, %.
nays, 70 The following is the vote in de-
tail:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen. Allison, Carey, Chand-
Ter, Colquitt, Cullom, Dolph, Felton, Frye,
Gallinger, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, His.
cock, Jones (Arkansas), Jones (Nevada),
Mitchell. Paddock, Palmer, PETER, Perkins,
Pettigrew, P1att, Sanders, Sherman, Stewart,
Stockbridge and Wolcott-2S
Nays Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Blodgett, Brice Cameron, Carlisle Cockrell
Coke, Daniel, George, Gibson (Louisianal,
Gibson (Maryland), Gray, Hill, Hunton,
kenna, Manderson, Power, Quay, Ransom,
Vest, Voorhees,, Walthall and W hite-26
MI. Allison moved an amendment. which
was agreed to, limiting the gross e1pendi-