Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-01-06
BLUE LAW READY
FOR The SENATE
Bill Has Drastic Provisions
Aimed to Secure Stopping
of Work on Sunday.
SENT TO SENATOR M'KELLAR
Measure Prepared by Methodist Min
listers and Laymen at Conference
In Tennessee-IncIudes All
Federal Employees.

Washington, Jan. blue law ad-
lntroductiOn in the senate and expect
to press it for consideration soon after
New Years.
1t was sent to Senator McKellar Of
Tennessee by the Tennessee annual
conference of Methodist ministers and
laymen and contains provisions dras-
4, tic in the extreme.
~ 1t would forbid Sunday work Of
lny kind by any employee Of the
Cpited States.
1t would stop the running Of all In
terstate trains.
1t would exclude from the United
States mail all newspapers published
'or purporting to be published" on
Sunday.
1t would not only punish by fine and
Imprisonment persons doing these
things, but anyone who "aids or pro-
cures another" in doing them; that Is,
who pays for a ride on an interstate
train on Sunday or buys a Sunday
newspaper that has been carried by
the mails.
Following are the provisions Of the
bill, shorn Of the legal phraseology:
Il. Hereafter it shall be unlawful
for any person in the employment Of
the United States to work or carry on
his vocation on Sunday.
''2. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son or corporation to operate on Sun
day any freight or passenger train or
mail train or any other train or part
of train on Sunday in the carrying
on of interstate commerce, trade or
traffic of any kind.
49, 1t shall be unlawful for any post
Office to be open on Sunday or to de-
liver mail On Sunday; it shall be un-
lawful for any mail to be carried or
delivered on Sunday by any employee
of the United States.
IL. 1t shall be unlawful for any
newspaper or other paper or publica-
tion published or purporting to be pub
lished On Sunday to be received, car
ried or delivered by mail by any
agency of the United States, in any
jurisdiction of the United States.
"5. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son or corporation engaged in inter-
state commerce. or carrying on any
business or vocation under the laws of
or with the permission or license of
the United States, or any Of its agen-
cies, to do or carry on any ordinary
vocation or business on Sunday, the
purpose of this act being to express
our national determination to honor
the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as
God commands, thereby securing for
all that opportunity for spiritual and
bodily refreshment decreed by our
Lord for the happiness Of all men and
the safety Of all nations.
"6. Any person who does any of the
things above declared unlawful, OF
who procures or aids another in doing
any of the things above declared un.
lawful, shall be guilty of a misdemean-
or and punished upon conviction by
due process of law by a fine of not
under S1OO or over $4,000 for each
OfTense, and by Imprisonment for moi
over six months in the discretion Of
the court.
"7. And any corporation that does
or aids in doing these forbidden thing:
shall upon conviction be fined not less
than $1,000 or over 100000 for eact
offense, and upon conviction a second
time for like offense shall forfeit its
charter and franchise and be enJoineC
from operating in interstate com
merce; provided however, that emerg
ency instances Of charity and necessi
ty are not included or punishable un
der the provisions Of this act"
Though not officially given out, 1t il
understood that this measure will
have the backing of the Lords Da!
alliance, which is supported by six
teen Of the strongest evangelical de
nominations in America, including tn
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Epis
copalian and Congregational churches