East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-03

There will be little doing in PEN
dletou next Sunday, for at the meet
ing of the council last night a Sunday
closing ordinance, aiming at the alb
solute suspension OF business on that
day was adopted. In severity the
new ordinance goes much further
than the state law upon the subject,
and is in class with the blue laws"
of old New England. Not only are all
ordinary business houses ordered clos
ed, but livery stables are forbidden to
/ let out their teams and rigs except
/ for funerals, or in cases of mercy or
/ necessity. All places of amusement
are barred, drug stores are forbidden
to sell aught but medicine, bakeries
anything but bread. and all else is
( prohibited except the service of un-
dertakers and doctors. No exceptions
were made for meat markets or for
ice factories, consequently neither
may be secured upon the Sabbath
day hereafter.
The draft of the Sunday closing or
dinance had been prepared during
yesterday, as was stated in this paper
last evening, and when routine busi-
ness had been finished last night was
duly presented on being first read
! it was ordered referred to the ordi-
nance committee which at once re-
ported favorably upon the law, and
it was then passed To its various
readings and adopted by unanimous
vote. Those present at the meeting
We're Councilmen Dickson, Johnson,
Murphy, Ferguson, Sewell and Swear
ingen. the only absentee being Coun-
Gilman Rem.
During the time the ordinance was
before the meeting not a word was
said regarding it by any member the
entire matter having apparently been
I worked out previously. However,
when the ordinance had been adopt
ed. Chairman Dickson stated that the
law had been drafted by members of
the council and not by saloon men, as
reported, and closed by saying that
What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander," which was the sole
explanation given for the adoption of
the Purtanical measure.
While no reasons We're given by the
,eouncil for its action last night, it
was plainly done out of revenge for
the recent order for the closing of
saloons on Sunday. In spite of Mr..
Dickson's statement that the law was
drawn by councilmen and not by sa-
loonkeepers, the fact remains that the
law is exactly what was wanted by
the latter. If they are to be forced
to close on Sunday 1t is their desire
that everything else be shut also, and
thus the Sunday closing idea be
brought into disrepute. At first It
was presumed that this could be done
under the state law. but evidently
they became afraid that the state
law would not close the town as they
wished, for under II drug stores, bak-
cries and meat markets are allowed
to be open without restrictions as to
what they shall sell, and the law is in
other ways less strict than the ordi-
maze dt,p pied last nigh,.
The complete draft of the Sunday
closing ordinance is as follows:
Complete Draft of Sunday Closing
Law.
Section I. No person shall keep
open any store, shop, grocery, bowling
alley, billiard room or tipping house
or saloon, for the purpose of traffic
or any place OF amusement on the
first day of the week, called Sunday,
or the Lords day, within the corpor-
ate limits of the city of Pendleton.
and no person shall on Sunday sell, or
give, or otherwise dispose of any
goods wares or merchandise of any
character or description, except as
hereinafter provided; provided, how
ever, that the provisions of this ordi-
nance shall not apply to any under
taker or undertaker's establishment, |
nor to any drug store in regard to
the sale of medicine only or COM
pounding OF physicians prescriptions
only. nor to any doctors or physicians |
shop or to any restaurant; provided
further that the provisions of this or