Sunday Legislation Proposed for Washington
By Editor
The last attempt at Sunday legislation, we note, is for Washington, D. C. Congressman William Schley Howard, of Georgia, introduced a bill providing "that from and after the passage of this act any person, firm, or corporation who shall follow their usual avocation or work of their ordinary calling on the sabbath day, excepting works of charity and necessity, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor." Its design is to regulate Sunday labor in the District of Columbia. It has no other exemption, so far as we know, and it is clearly a religious bill. The two storm-centers over Sunday-law matters are, for the nation, Washington, D. C.; in states, California.