Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-22
NAY OPEN SUNDAYS.
The Injunction Closing the Worlds
Fair Gates Set Aside.
In a Unanimous opinion Justices Fuller
Allen and Bum say That the Position
of the United states Govern
mcnt Is Wrong.
FAvoRs SUNDAY OPENING.


CHICAGO, June l9.-The worlds fair
is to be kept open on Sunday in the fu-
ture. Such was the unanimous decision
of the United States circuit court of
appeals, Chief Justice Fuller presiding,
given at II a. M. Saturday.
The appeal from the order of Circuit
Judges Woods and Jenkins closing the
fair on Sundays had been argued for
two days and the court of appeals re-
versed it and held that the local di-
rectory could do as it pleased in the
matter.
COURT HAS JURISDICTION.
Justice Fuller first took up the ques-
ton of the court of appeals, which had
been challenged by the counsel for the
government, who held that the appeal
ought to have gone direct to the supreme
court, on the ground that the consti-
nationality of United States law was
in question
This claim he held to be bad as the
decision in the circuit court turned on
other questions than the constitutions
atty of the law. neither lad the juris-
/ diction of that court been questioned,
! the only contention Of the counsel for
the exposition company on that point
being that it was a case which ought to
/ have been brought on the law and not
on the equity side.
II WAS a CONTRACT.
As to the g. SOC, 600 appropriation of
1 congress to the fair to which the sun
day closing condition was attached
I Justice Fuller held that that vas moth
ing more nor less than contract. It
was not a donation, as the council
/ for the government claimed, for con-
4 ditions attached to it on both sides
! Under it the local directory was bound
to raise more money in addition to the
many millions it already had raised,
complete the buildings in a certain
time, and do other things, all of
which it had done. Consequently
| if the government thought that the To-
] cal directory had broken part of this
contract by opening the fair on sun
days its remedy lay in bringing an ac-
ton at law for damages, but it could
not go into a court Of equity with what
amounted to bill fer specific perform
ance.
WILL RENEW THE FIGHT.
/ Secretary Mclean, of the Sabbatari-
an association, said that they had not
/ given up the night yet. They would
now press the injunction suit of Wanna
maker & Brown, who sue as stockhold-
ers, and he thought that that case
would stand in equity.
The attorneys for the government
/ could not say what couIse they would
now pursue until they heard from the
attorney-gel eral.
SUNDAY AT THE PAhK-
The paid admissions to'Jackson park
on Sunday numbered 1916 The of
ficials are somewhat disappointed in
the Sunday attendance, and it is ru-
mored that an effort will be made to
reduce the admission fee on that day to
twenty-five cents. The crowd was an
orderly one. Many thousands spent
the day and evening inside the walls of
the German village, Old Vienna and the
street in Cairo
On the main grounds thousands could
be seen strolling about in every direc-
ton. The rotunda of the Administra-
ton building and the plazas seemed to
be central meeting points for every
| body. Columbian avenue, in the Manu-
features building, and all the sections
that were open to visitors were
filled all the time. The same was
true in many of the other buildings. Ii
was noticed that great many more of
the exhibits, especially in Manufactures
building, were closed and covered than
has been the case heretofore when the
fair was open Sunday. The en-
frances to the Italian. Swiss, Norway,
! United States and Japanese see
tions were barricaded and most OF the
exhibits in them were hidden from
view All the booths in the British
section were also closed and the glass
sides of many of them We're covered
with white tarpaulins. Germany. how
ever was wide open. One could 60
through the French, Austrian, Bel
gium and Russian sections and
see a great deal. but a portion
of their exhibitors had drawn the
curtains Saturday night and left them
to remain so until this morning few
exhibits We're covered in all the build
ings, but not 50 many as in the main
edifce
In the Electricity building the hum
ming of dynamos and motors was nota-
bic for its absence, and nearly every
exhibit was closed. Machinery hall
presented vast display of motionless
machinery. In the Agricultural build
ing the exhibits were open, but few at
tendants were present.
In the Transportation building GOV.
cred exhibits were conspicuously numer.
Gus. The Mines and Mining building
was practically deserted. The reason /
was apparent, for sheeted and closed
exhibits were on every hand.
The German Election.
BERLIN. June ls.-Practicaly CON-