Petitions Against Sunday Legislation
LATELY our petitions against religious legislation have been rolling in upon Congress at a rapid rate. According to the Congressional Record of February 22, George Washington's birthday, forty-nine separate entries of these were made in Congress on that day, from over seventy different places, by various congressmen, eight in the Senate and forty-one in the House of Representatives. Out of a total of eighty petitions relating to various matters presented in the House on that day, forty-one, or over one half of all, were our petitions against Sunday legislation. None were presented for Sunday laws.