Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-09
FROM WASHINGTON
Senator Pcttigrcw and the
Worlds Fair Pcoplc---For
Sunday Closing.
Items About the Weather and
incidentally OF Legislation
IA Cosby Letter.
From our own special correspondent.

w h'hlNhloN, gan SS.-1 Ou live
in genial cline. Sunshine and
mild winter weather all around YOU,
Different here. Think for moment
now far north of st. Louis you are.
Then remember that VIC are in the
same latitude as the latter. The
coolest 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 its ice is four
teen inches thick. The water pines
in many parts of the city arc only
three and four feet below the
surface. The current frigidity has
frozen the water in these which have
burstcd, and there are places where
for a half block, the water is running
over the snow. Slcighng has been
good for nineteen days and is yet
nineteen consecutive days.
William Dun llaynic of Rapid
City soon steps into comfortable
position, if it he true lhat he is to be
Vice Presidcnt-Elcct Steycnson's
private secretary, His salary will be
$500. He was chief clerk to the
ilf>t assistant postmaster-gcner
when Mr. Stevenson held this posi-
lion under Mr.. Cleveland.
The independents hercaway are
very naturally in good spirits since
their party elected Il senator in Kan
SIS. by so doing they will hold the
balance OF power in the senate during
the next two years.
Senator Pcttigrcw seem, 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, quote the law:
SEC. j. That it is hereby declared
that all appropriations herein made
l"r' or appcrtaining To, the Worlds
Columbian Exposition are made up.
on the condition hat lhcsaid expose
llon sliall not be opened To the pub
nc on the first day of the week. com
tii"l!lN called sunday: ani If The said
appropriations he accepted bv the
corporation Of tile slate OF Illinois.
known asthc Worlds Columbian EX.
position upon that condition it Shall
ne ana 1t Is hereby. made the duty Of
liie Noil IS Columbian commission.
created 10y the act of congress of
APT! 20, lr9p. to make such rules or
l1ionilicatlnn> OF he said ruleS of the
Snlu corporation as shall require the
closing OIL the exposition on the said
lrst day OF the week commonly called
sunday.
That is the law today. The fair is
TO be held inJackson Park. Chicago
ans who favor Sunday opening have
found that Il clause in the donation of
this park to Chicago provides that il
shall always be open to the public.
SO there Sunday openers hold that
closing on Sunday will forfeit tie
cllN's right to the park and it will
revert to the heirs. They give this
rs Their excuse for keeping it open
sundays and for their declared pur-
pose toso continue touring the Fair
season from May to October
Such a high-handcl attempt to
violate the foregoing clear mandate
OF law, after the Fair folks have rot
liielf money from congress, has
stirred up Senator pettigrcw who
has been the champion Of SUNDAY
clo>ingln the senate. 50 he has in
lioduecd senate bili3136, which reads.
That the secretary Of the treas
urE Is instructed not TO deliver any Of
the coins provided for under tie nro-
visions of chapter three hundred and
clGhtN-onc, statutes Of the United
states Of America passed at the FIRST
session OF the tifty-sccund congress
TO the corporation known as the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, until
said corporation shall deliver to the
secretary of the treasury a good and
>uliiclcnt bond. with at lra>, two
>urcilcs, conditioned that if for any
reason whatever the Worlds Column
pan Exposition is opened to the pub
nc on The first day Of the week, com
monty ca.iitG Sunday, said CORPORATION
shall pay to the United States the
sum of money said corporation shall
have received from the sale of said
coins, not less than two million five
hundred thousand dollars.
Ilcwill also offer this as an amend
mcnt TO the sundry civil appropria-
ton BILL where it will go into con-
ference and become a law.
| do not understand it-pcrhaps
you do. but why is it that. with only
lhirtN-lhrce working days left there
is not one Of the thirteen great ap-
preparation bills formulated into
law: A democratic member of the
house has intimatcd that it means an
extra session Of congress. All the
existing appropriate MS cease on next
June Both. Ii others arcnot made by
the present congress, then it will be
necessary to convene the new one
for this purpose. And some OF the
democrats want an extra session to
repeal the Mckinley tariff law.
think thew will got IL