The morning call., 1893-06-27
GIVEN THE MONEY.
Sunday Closing Not the
Question.
CONGRESS APPROPRIATED 1T.
A Certain Sum Goes to the Fair, No
Matter What the Directors
May Do.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

CHICAGO, June 26.-The attendance at
the Worlds Fair to-day was 1913, I35, of
which number 81. 27O were paid admissions.
The Official report shows that 1863. 6SS pee pie
attended the fair on Saturday and SS,265
yesterday.
Preparations for an elaborate celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July continued to-
day. A meeting of the American exhibit
tors is being held to take action toward
helping to make the day grand success,
and many details are being looked after.
a rec ption was rendered the Worlds
Fair officials and the foreign commission
ers to-day at the Swedish building by
Royal Commissioner LETTER of the Swedish
Commission. The weather was delightful
and the increase in the numb of children
visiting the fair was notable.
The New Hampshire building at the
Worlds Fair was formally opened to-day.
The exercises were participated in by
Governor j. B. Smith. Lieutenant-GOv-
ernor NJ. c. Lane, members of the State
Legislature, the State Worlds Fair Com
missioners and other promIne nt citizens.
WASHINGTON, June O. - Attorney
General Olney has decided the appro-
priations made by the act of Congress-
approved August 5. 1892, in aid of the
Worlds Fair, including the appropriation
for the Government exhibit, ''are as avail
able now as before the decision of the
Circuit Court of Appeals permanently
opening the Worlds Fair on Sunday,
with the single exception that no more
money ought to be paid the Illinois cor
poration known as The Worlds Coum-
bian Commission
The grounds for the opinion are: Con
gross meant the exposition, as whole,
should be closed on Sunday. It did not,
however, undertake to pass law to that
effect, out contented itself with making
certain appropriations conditional, not
upon the fact of Sunday closing, but upon
the lllinoi corporation agreeing to the
propOs itions for Sunday closing, so that
regulations TO that effect might be made
by the Government repres The
Worlds Colum bian Commission, an Hi
nois corporation. did agree to the PROPOSE
ton. The proper rules were made by the
Columbian Commission, and the condition
upon which the appropriations referred to
were made must be regarded as fully sat-
isfied.
THE rights of the United States and the
liabilities of the Illinois corporation con-
seQuent upon the latter's violation of its
agreement are matters for future consider
alton and settlement. But such violation,
except as it hould prevent the payment
of any more money to the Illinois corpora
ton. cannot be allowed to render the APP
propriatons referred to unaYailing. For
the most cogent reasons it would result in
great waste, because, while only one-third
of the term of the fair has yet elapsed. the
Government has already erected building
at the cost of $500, COO and expended other
large sums in gathering and installing the
exhibits, defraying the expenses of COM
missioners and lady managers, and in CON-
pensation for necessary agents and en-
ployes.
Further, it would almost amount to
bad faith as regards foreign nations and
foreign exhibitors, because not merely the
awards of medals and diplomas, but their
preparation and distribution. have been
assumed by and belong exclusively to the
United States, acting through the Column
bian Commission.
Results of this sort cannot possibly
have been within the contemplation of
Congress. which must, therefore, be re-
garded rs having conditioned its aDpropri-
atoms not upon Sunday closing in fact. but
upon an agreement for Sunday closing,
which it assumed, however rashly, would
not ha hrokau'