The National Sunday Law Argument of Alonzo T. Jones before the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 1888. "This is an argument made upon the national Sunday bill introduced by Senator Blair in the Fiftieth Congress. It is not, however, exactly the argument that was made before the Senate Committee, as there were so many interruptions in the course of my speech that it was impossible to make a connected argument upon a single point. By these questions, etc., my argument was not only forced to take a wider range than was intended when I began to speak, but I was prevented from making the definite argument that I designed to present. I do not speak of these interruptions and counter-arguments by way of complaint, but only to explain why this pamphlet is issued. Nevertheless it is a fact that while there were eighteen speeches before mine, occupying three hours, in all of which together there were only one hundred and eighty-nine questions and counter-arguments by all the members of the Committee who were present, I was interrupted by the Chairman alone, one hundred and sixty-nine times in ninety minutes, as may be seen by the official report of the hearing. — Fiftieth Congress, Second Session, Messages and Documents No. 43, pp. 73-102.

National Sunday legislation, is matter of national interest. While it is true that this particular Sunday-rest bill did not become a law— the legislation having died with the expiration of the Fiftieth Congress — it is also true that those who demanded, formulated, and promoted this legislation never slackened their efforts, and they halve now, 1892, attained the grand object of their ambition — they have the national Government fully committed to the whole course of religious legislation exposed in this argument.

In the Fifty-second Congress, first session, the Sunday-law advocates concentrated all their forces and all their energies upon the point of securing the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday, by Act of Congress. They sent to Congress, "petitions" backed up by threats so overbearing that their threats were denounced on the floors of Congress as an abuse of the right of petition. The following is but a fair sample of these 'petitions': ..." (See: [ Ссылка ])

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