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Show POWERS APPEARS AND OPPOSES SUNDAY CLOSING. Judge O. W. Powers appeared before the senato judiciary comnutteo Monday afternoon after the adjournment of that bod.3 and urged the advisability of adverse ad-verse action on the Sunday closing bill, now in the hands of that committee. Tho advocate of tho open Sunday custom, cus-tom, read excerpts from a number of publications, giving maiiv reasons for his opposition to the bill, and closed his address with a strong argument. " Late th" same evening, when asked about the matter, Benncr X. Smith, chairman of the committee on judicial-v. said he would not. undertako to sav whether Judgo Powers had advocated or opposed the passage of tho bill. |