Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-30 | Page 1 | U. S. Court Refuses to Stop Enforcement of Sunday Labor Law

v s 1 J r STOP MENT Of O SUNDAY lABOR LAW KANSAS CITY Jan 30 30 Judge Smith in iu the United States district cour court hero hOlO today handed banded down downa a 1 decision declining to interfere with tho the county officials official of this county in inthe tho the enforcement of the T Missouri statute making unnecessary labor on Sunday a misdemeanor The rue decision was 38 ren rendered cred in a t ease rase brought in in n tho tiro name came of N Nance Kanco lice 0 ONeil O'Neil Keil the actress and tho the local theaters wh who sought ht to permanently enjoin the tho county county coun coun- t. t ty grand rand jilT jury from indicting them Tho rho Decision is a verdict et for Judge o William II Wallace of tho the criminal court who in his campaign n for lur Sundry Sunday observance has caused th the indictment clment of 2000 sta stage o folk and ami theatrical managers and attaches 3 as well a ahun as hun hundreds of storekeepers for alleged ed violation of the Sunday law All AU have o been bond None Non required to give o heavy heay of of the tho cases has conic como to trial tin the theatrical theatrical the the- managers who wIlli have havo furnished 1 the ho bonds bOUth in the various rater cases in ha having declined an of Judge Wallace Wallace Wal Wal- lace Jace to bring n about a a. test case in the lower Jower courts court Injunction Secured Tho complainants last Jast Saturday secured se so- cured a temporary injunction restraining restrain restrain- restraining in ing th the grand jur jury from front indicting them They The sought a a. permanent injunction injunction in in- junction winch which was toda today tt healed denied nied h by Judge McPherson Tho complainants alleged that tho the grand ranel jury now in iu ses- ses session lion ion was wt illegally drawn dran and aud that Judge Wallace personally selected the jurors in in violation of tho the law Jaw This Judge W Wallace denied enie Judge McPherson in his decision today today to to- day says sas I fh i court view expresses ss no wi with tb reference to tho eon construction to be I f given to tho the Sunday statutes of this state tate That tho the Missouri Ic legislature has as the power to enact Sunday statutes no man of common information q ques que cx- cx It is a question of policy oi of the tho state Cannot Interfere Whether the criminal l court of i Jackson county is or wro wrong 11 J Unit United eel States courts cannot and must not nut interfere Tho The Ili dignity of this court must bo 10 maintained and anal it cannot be bo maintained if jf it undertakes to inter utter fore with local police questions of tho the that were Yero properly and ard exclusively el loLl lodged ed with the tho Mt states tes when our government go was or organized o McPherson says a s 's that the I proper cour course for the complainants is to tofeek see seek f-eek trial in I Hit he criminal court and ancl then take tal an appeal to tu th the state sn su I promo premo court and ami finally to the United Unite I States tates court eort i