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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 19.

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Brief Mention

By S. B. H.

THE churches of the District of Columbia Conference have passed resolutions protesting against the passage of the Johnston District Sunday bill (S. 237), and have sent them to the Senate.
A SERIES of interesting incidents is to be found in the following circumstances and personages connected with Sunday legislation: Senator Johnston, of Alabama, is the father of the proposed Sunday law for the District of Columbia now pending in the Senate; Congressman Ben Johnson, of Kentucky, is the chairman of the House Committee on the District of Columbia; Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, was a member of both Senate and House, and fathered the famous Sunday Mail Reports, which advised against the enactment of Sunday laws by Congress; the biographer of Alexander Campbell (Christian denomination) claims that he rendered valuable assistance to Colonel Johnson in the preparation of the Sunday Mail Reports (“Memoirs of A. Campbell,” by R. Richardson, Vol. I, pages 536, 537). S. B. H.