The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-10
FROM WASHINGTON
Senator Pettigrew and the
Worlds Fair PeOple---FOr
Sunday Closing.
Items About the Weather and
incidentally of Legislation
"A Cosby Letter.
From our own special correspondent.

mild winter weather all around YOU.
Different here. Think for moment
how far north of St. Louis you are.
Then remember that we are in the
same latitude as the latter. The
coldest weather in twenty years has
been experienced in this city during
the last three weeks. The mercury
has been to seven below zero: the
Potomac is frozen and it's ice is four
teen inches thick. The water pipes
in many parts of the city are only
three and four feet below the
surface. The current frigidity has
frozen the water in these which have
bursted, and there are places where
for half block, the. water is running
over the snow. Sleighing has been
good for nineteen days and is yet
nineteen consecutive days.
William Duff Haynie Of Rapid
City soon steps into a comfortable
position, if it be true that he is to be
Vice President-Elect Stevenson's
private secretary. His salary will be
S2,22O. He was chief clerk to the
first assistant postmaster-general
when Mr.. Stevenson held this posi-
tion under Mr.. Cleveland.
The independents ,hereaway are
very naturally in good spirits since
their party elected a senator in Kan
sas. By so doing they will hold the
, balance of power in the senate during
the next two years.
Senator Pettigrew seems to have
his back up. The congressional
grants to the Columbian Exposition
are on the expressed provision that
the fair shall be closed on SUNDAYS:
or to be exact, I quote the law:
SEC. 4. That it is hereby declared
that al appropriation herein made
for, or appertaining to, the Worlds
Columbian Exposition are made nm
on the condition that the said exposI-
tlon shall not be opened to the pub-
TIC on the first day of the week. com
monty called Sunday; and if the said
appropriations be accepted by the
corporation of the state of Illinois,
known as the Worlds Columbian Ey
position upon that condition it shall
De and 1T is hereby, made the duty of
the WORLDS Columbian commission.
created by the act of congress of
April rs, 1890, to make such rules or
modlfications of the said rules of the
SAID corporation as shall require the
ciosIng OF the exposition on the said
nrst day of the week commonly called |
Sunday.
That is the law today. The fair is
to be held in Jackson Park. Chicago
ans who favor Sunday opening have
found that clause in the donation of |
this park to Chicago provides that it
shall always be open to the public,
so there Sunday openers hold that
closing on Sunday will forfeit the
c1ty's right to the park and it will I
revert to the heirs. They give this
rs their excuse for keeping it open
Sundays and for their declared mr.
pose toso continue itduring the Fair
season from May to October.
Such high-handed attempt to
violate the foregoing clear mandate
OF law, after the Fair folks have GOT
their money from congress. has
stirred up Senator Pettigrew who
has been the champion of Sunday
closingln IN the senate, so he has in
trodnced senate bill 1886, which reads:
THAT the secretary of the treas
ury is instructed not to deliver any of
the coins provided for under the Tro-
visions or chapter three hundred and
elghty-one, statutes of the United
states OF America, passed at the first
session OF the fifty-second congress-
TO the corporation known as the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, until {
said corporation shall deliver to the
secretary Of the treasury a good and ,
sufficient bond, with at least two
conditioned that if for any
reason whatever the Worlds Colum-
olan Exposition is opened to the pub .
lc on the first day of the week, com
monty called Sunday, said corporation
shall pay to the United States the
sum OF money said corporation shall ,
nave received from the sale of said |,f
coins, not less than two million five
tnOuSan0 dollars.
He will also offer this as an amend
nent to the sundry civil appropria-
ion bill, where it will go into con-
erence and become law.
/ do not understand it-perhaps =.
'ou do, but why is it that, with only
,hirty-three working days left there
5 not one of the thirteen great ap-
bills formulated into =
aw: A democratic member of the =
house has intimated that it means an
Extra session Of congress. All the
existing appropriate MS cease on next S
June 3Oth. Ii others are not made by 6
The present congress, then it will be !
necessary to convene the new one =
or this purpose. And some Of the r
democrats want an extra session to r
epeal the Mckinley tariff law. l t
,hink they will get it. 2
Grover Cleveland ia nuiet1y an