Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-02

CHICAGO, May 29.-Judge Stein has
entered the order for IA preliminary in
junction restraining the Worlds Fair
Directory from closing the Worlds
Fair on Sundays.
ltwas made on the petition OF a stock
holder and taxpayer, named Clingham,
who made the plea that ii was unlaw-
full to close Jackson Park or any other
part of the South Park system any day
of the week, as the dedication act
reads that it shall be open to the
public forever"
Judge STEMS opinion was an ex-
haustive one and the court room was
crowded with lawyers and other in
tereStcd listeners.
Ciingman, IS a stakeholder in the
fair and Il taxpayer of Chicago, asked
for an III junction restraining the dlrec-
tors from closing the fair on Sunday,
claiming that the dedication act of the
South park sys EN- forbade the closing
of any one of the parks on any day of
the week. The interviewer simply de-
MED this stand.
The interviewer claimed that Con-
greSs had full power over the Fair and
had passed law requiring the direct
ors to clos, it on Sunday. That"
gress did not pass any such law, pre-
sumably because it did not have the
authority What it did was to vote an
appropriation OF $1,000, 900 to the Fair
in August, 1892, on the condition that
it be closed on Sunday. This, being
accepted by the directors, formed
legal contract.
but in Mar, h, 1898, it ordered
$50, $40 of this appropriation withheld
and it has so been done. AS it takes
two to make Il contract 50 it takes two
to modify it, and this withholding of
over one-ffth of the appropriation is
enough of reputation of the con-
tract on the part of Congress to vitiate
it, and the local directory is no longer
bound by it.
Referring to the con ention of the
interviewer that this is Christian
nation" Judge Stein said that while
that was so in he abstract twas not p
thing that courts could, under the con
S tuition, take cogniZance of, and, "
said The Judge, cit would always cause
trouble were the courts to attempt to
uphold by decree the tenets of
any religious sect Even were
Christianity embodied in tn law 1T
does not follow that Christianity re-
QulreS the closing or the Falr on gun
days, for while one body of Christians
declares that it does another body
equally devout. holes to the opposite
view Neither do think tEat open
ing the Fair on Sunday will result in
a disturbance of the pc zee of that day
but rather that it viii be conducive t,
its quiet.
He denied that the United States hat
any part in the case, on the gtount
that none of their property interest
were involved, and then, coming down
, to the giSt of the matter, said that in
asmuch as the Legislative act dedicated
the South Park system declared tina
.. the parks should be open to TIN
public forever" the directory had n
! right to close any part of them for on
, day in the week and Il temporary IN
junction restraining them from dom;
so would issue. Bond was fixed in tn
I sum Of 5000.
, Edwin Walker, attorney for tn
local directory, gave notice that n
would file his answer in the case II
ten DAYS, which will throw the hear
! ing of the application for u permancn
injunction over a couple of weeNs,
least, allowing two Sundays to inter
vene. AS it is not at all likely tha
any decision will be reached in tn
. United States Court in that time i j
! safe to say that there viii be two NOR
: : open SUNDAYS, even ii both court
1 were to finally decide against it,