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Senate Committee Favors Sunday Bill

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 18.

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Senate Committee Favors Sunday Bill

At its meeting on Friday, April 24, the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia ordered a favorable report to be made to the Senate on a Sunday bill drawn by Senator Johnston, of Alabama, as a substitute for the two other Sunday observance bills introduced by him. This bill requires a general observance of Sunday, with certain exceptions, and prohibits sports and amusements. An exemption clause provides that persons who are members of a religious society which observes as a sabbath any other day in the week than Sunday, shall not be liable to the penalties prescribed in the act, if they observe one day in each week as a sabbath, as provided in the bill. This whole matter will be more fully dealt with in next week’s REVIEW.