St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28
NOW IN THE COURTS.
Expected Bill TO Restrain Sunday
Opening Filed by Attorney
MiIchrist.
stockholders Of the Exposition
Company Will Also Apply for
An Injunction.

CHICAGO, May 27.-The expected bill
for an injunction to prevent Sunday
opening of the worlds fair was filed TO-
day on behalf of the government by
United States District Attorney Mil
christ in the federal district court. The
bill does not ask for temporary in
junction, and consequently the case
will not be argued until next
week. Mr.. Milchrist preferred to
wait until Chief Justice Fuller
arrives in the city. The chief justice
will probably hear the case with Two
judges of the circuit court. The bill
says the Chicago worlds fair corporation
at the dedication, Oct. II. 1892, delivered
the site and buildings into the possession
and control of the national commission
of the United States. 1t was provided
in the act of Aug. 5, 1892,
that all appropriations made in that
act to the exposition we're made upon
the condition that the exposition should
not be open to the public on the first
day of the week, commonly called Sun
day, and if the APPROPRIATION should be
accepted by the exposition, it was made
the duty of the national commission to
make such rules or modification of the
rules OF the local corporation as
would secure the closing of the eX
position on Sunday. The bill adds that
Sunday rule made by the directory in
October was modified by the commits
sion, and provided explicitly for 1.-The
closing Of the exposition building and
the gates thereof" on Sundays. This
rule, it is claimed in the bill, is still in
force, and neither the commission nor
the directory together or severally have
power to abrOgate it. The bill says the
contemplated opening of the gates "Will
be a great injury and grievOus preju-
dice to the common public good, and to
the welfare of the people of the United
States"
1t is probable that another bill for an
injunction to close the fair Sundays will
be filed next week. Mckenzie Clelland,
an attorney who claims to represent the
Columbian Sabbath association, called
on District Attorney Milchrst today to
examine the bill prepared by him and
ascertain what features of the case it
dealt with. ClellanG said that several
members of the association, who were
stockholders in the fair, representing
$4,000 worth of such shares, cOntem-
plated bringing the suit.
",IO take the stand" he said, ''that if
the fair is opened Sundays means the
forfeiture of the S2,500,000 apprOpria-
ton, and as that must come out of the
pockets of the stockholders. they are i'll
tereSted in preventing the opening of
the exposition on Sunday. We may file
our bill so that it can be passed upon
the same time that the court hears tie
district attorneys argument"
BosToN, May 27.-The following tele-
gram was today sent to President
Cleveland by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts,
Rev. A. II. Plumb and Rev. Joseph
Cook. representing national and state
Sabbath organizations:
"Milchrist's suspicious delays and
excuses for inaction for fifteen days
after the official decision for Sunday
opening, if not overruled today will do
dishonor to the nation and administra-
ton. When Injunction was wanted
against railroad men a judge was OBJ
tained by telegraph and a special train.
If temporary injunction is impossible
today, let proclamation and troops hold
the gates closed until obtained. Sunday
closing is the law of the land until the
federal courts decide otherwise. Shall
national law be nullifed meanwhile?"