Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-06-01
OLNEY READY TO SUE
Explicit Instructions Given to the United
States ATTORNEY at Chicago,

Explicit Instructions Given to the United
States Attorney at Chicago.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 25-As the
result Of District Attorney Milchrist's
consultation with Attorney General
Olney, he took away with him last
night explicit instructions, if he finds.
on his arrival in Chicago, that the
commission still adheres to its
decision to open the Worlds Fair next
Sunday, to present the matter to the
federal court and ask for an Injunction
or any other legal process which the
facts would warrant and which would
prevent violation of the laws of the
United States.
The attorney-generaps instructions
are understood to be in line with a GEN
eral policy adopted by the administra-
ton after full consideration.
Atty.-Gen. Olney, being seen, unhcs-
itatingly confirmed the statement as to
the nature of the instructions he had
given the district attorney and as to the
determination of his department. to take
legal measures to prevent the law of con-
gress being violated.
The Department of Justice, it will be
recalled, ruled, some time ago, in
reply to questions propounded bv
the postmastergencral, that the
Worlds Fair post-otiice must be
closed on Sunday. He also in
an interview with John Willis
Baer, of Boston, secretary of the So
ciety of Christian Endeavor, gave him
distinctly to understand that ''the gov
eminent would see that the law was en-
forced in case the National Commission
should at any time decide to open on
Sunday"
The interest which the official an
nouncement of the encouragement $
instructions has evoked has rather
dWarfed the significance of the resolu-
tons adopted by the General Assembly
to-day to appoint committee to wait
upon Secretary Carlisle to ask him
to treat the exposition as bonded
warehouse and to order it closed ON
Sunday as all other bonded warehouses
are. Treasury officials entrusted with
the enforcement of customs laws see
obvious difficulties in the way of carry
wing out this programme. There is No
no way, they say, in which the exposition
buildings containing bonded exhibits
could be closed like bonded warehouses
except by placing locks upon them.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding, who
HAS charge Oh CtlSlOliS IildltclS, Sdin llllS
morning that this would be obviously
impracticable, as the foreign exhibits
and the exhibits of American goods
were in many instances side by side
Moreover, the responsibility for the
safe-keeping of the foreign bond
ed goods was imposed upon
the local directory. Consequently
the point made that the buildings were
in the category as bonded warehouses,
Secretary Spaulding said, does not hold
good.
The committee appointed by the Gen
eral Assembly waited upon Attorney
General Olney in regard to the matter
this afternoon and were much gratifcd
to learn of his decisive action.
The Council of Administration has
issued an order to throw the gates Of
Jackson Park wide open next Sunday,
when everyone will be enabled to enter
who has the price. 1t is expected by
the directors that some sort OF legal
proceedings will be taken to stop them.
But no action that may be brought can
prevent the opening of the gates next
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