The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

port, and denounced the whole pro-
ceedings as a piece of underhand
work" He spoke with fine sarcasm
of that part of the ordinance which re-
ferred to tobacco as a necessity and
declared that its use was rather a
nasty and ungentlemanly habit. He
closed with a final shot at this
scheme" to railroad through a bad
piece of legislation.
Mr.. Jordan took issue with the
speakers remarks about tobacco and
stated that the supreme court had in
a recent decision declared the weed a
necessity. He also replied to the ac-
cusation of underhand work by de-
claring that the report of the judiciary
committee at this meeting was no
more out of the ordinary than that Of
the ways and means committee of
which Mr.. Horn is member.
After the oratory had subsidized the
wheels of the council ground slowly
and exceeding fine and the protection
clause to the Sunday labor ordinance
was duly made law.
The appraisers for changing the
grade on Locust and Sixth streets
were reappointed in order to give
them more time in which to make
their report They had been delayed
because they had been unable for
some time to secure certain data and
papers from the city records.
addition into the city was read and
passed by the council.
The report of the Prudential Trust
company, the city's fiscal agents, of
the contract sale of $4,000 of the paw
ing bond issue was read and approved.
A resolution authorizing the actual
sale of the bonds was passed.
The report of the police committee on
the claim of Mrs. A. T. Pigg for dam
ages as the result of a gas explosion
in her restaurant building in North
Topeka at the time ii was occupied by
the police during the flood was read
and accepted. 1t placed the damage at
sSS.75 and this sum was ordered paid
to Mrs. Pigg. -sr .....-lf
AS the council could only consider
those matters mentioned in the call for
the special meeting an adjournment
was taken to the next regular meet
ing, which will be the first Monday in
August.
Before any business was transacted
at last nights meeting a communica-
ton was read from the mayor which
set forth the objects of the call for this
special meeting. Among other matters
his honor expressed himself on the
Sunday closing question as follows:
I'm order that no i'll feeling might be
engendered and no contentious factions
| created in our city growing out of the
closing of the theaters on Sunday, at
the suggestion of the theater man.
ayers. mutual agreement was entered
into between the city attorney and the
attorney for the theater managers, that
the question as to the application of
the Sunday labor ordinance to the OPP
Grating of a theater on Sunday should
be carried to the state supreme court
as a test case for final settlement, a de-
cision favorable to the city was rem
dered in the district court, and al
though over eight months interviewed
before decision was reached in the
supreme court, no attempt was made
by the city to apply the law to the
theaters, although ample authority was
given by the district court. When tn"
district court action was affirmed by
the supreme court, the theater man
ayers were. informally notified that
they must not open on Sunday. Now
these theater managers, instead of
quietly submitting to the law as 1t
was understood they would if the test
case was decided against them. smart
ing under their defeat are harassing
and prosecuting the merchants of our
city who sell Con Sunday such articles
only as the city council has declared
may be sold legitimately. 1t is there
fore important that some action should
be taken at once by the council to pro-
tect the merchants of our city in
their legitimate business. The Sunday
closing question being under considera-
ton suggested the propriety of receiv-
ing and acting upon the report of the
committee on judiciary on the resolu
ton directing the enforcement of the
Sunday labor ordinance"
At the Air Dome.