Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-14
NO SHOW ON SUNDAY
And No Liquor at Any Time at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago
If THE SENATE CAN STOP BOTH.
Qusyb Moral Amendment Carried BY
Good-SiEed Majority.
NOT A BIG VOTE AGAINST LIQUORS
If THE SENATE CAN STOP BOTH.
NOT A BIG VOTE AGAINST LIQUORS
rrRom A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

A
WASHINGTON, July 13-The exhibition
of the Worlds Fair is to be closed on Sun
day, and no liquors are to be sold on the
grounds if any of the s5,OO0,00O sppro-
priated by the United States is to be avail
able. So said the Senate to-day. Thus
Sabbath-breaking is condemned and prohi-
bition gets majority in the Senate OF the
United States in single breath.
Out of IS Senators only IA voted for
free Sunday, but out of 81, 26 voted in favor
OF permitting the sale of liquor within the
walls of the Exposition. 1t will be seen
that many who voted for Sunday closing in
the interests of morality voted for the sale
of liquor-also, it may be assumed, In the
interests of morality. Among these are
Senators Cameron and Quay, of Pennsyl-
vania Sunday closing was commanded by
q majority next to unanimous. Prohibition
won bv a scratch on a much smaller vote,
many of the Senators dodging.
Hypocrisy of Many Congressman.
Knowing the temper and opinions of
most of the Senators, as everyone does who
sits in the galleries daily and sees these
men in their ordinary and sometimes extra
ordinary movements about the city, one can
hardly write patiently of these things.
Senator Quay may be credited, in explana-
tion of his Sunday closing amendment, with
a desire to paw a tender tribute to the
memory of a loving father, who was an
orthodox clergyman. 1 think Senator
Morgan was harsh through ignorance when
he yesterday charged that the Sena-
tor was moved by a desire to do
something that would enhance his
chances for reelection. Possibly
other Senators NAV have been actuated by
sentiments as delicate and commendable as
those of Senator Quay, but it is pretty safe
to assume that, the merits of the question
aside, most of the speeches and votes on
Sunday closing were entirely hypocritical,
and for effect upon pious constituents To
those who know of this character there is
little use in the Senate posing as Christian
Endeavor Society.
The House Thrown Into q Fever.
This action of the Senate to-day has
placed the House in fine fever of pertur-
baton. The House rejected general Sun
day closing clause and thrust prohibition
aside with contempt. Now it will again
have to wrestle with both subjects, and
with the elections nearer at hand than be-
fore.
1t is a most distressing situation, and
cruelty to animals on the part of the Senate
which should call for the interposition of
humane societies Senators are elected for
six years, and for their election go to men,
bers OF the Legislature, who are not easily
affected by moral questions. Representa-
tives are elected for two years, and must
play fast and loose with all elements, Sab
batarians and free thinkers, saloon keepers
and Prohibitionists
1t will be interesting to see the moral
and religious House wrestle with subjects
passed over so tripringlv in the joyously
pious Senate. Ii the House follow in the
wake OF the Senate, Chicago threatens to
the money itself, and let the local manage
ment set the moral pace of the exposition in
accordance with the well-known morals of
Chicago. L.