The Daily Dispatch

Cincinnati, May 6.—An order has been issued by Mayor Means to-night to all saloon-keepers, directing them to close up on next Sunday and all Sundays following. The order is made under the Stubbs law, which was passed by the last Legislature, and relates to Sabbath-breaking. The new Mayor, who was elected on a reform platform, promised strictly to enforce this law. He began by ordering the managers of the theatres to give no performances on Sunday. The order was disobeyed the first Sunday, but was observed last Sunday in the letter but not in the spirit. The gambling-houses were ordered closed. The order was observed for three or four days, but nearly all the gambling-rooms are again open and nothing is being done about it. The saloon-keepers, anticipating the present order against them, held a meeting Wednesday night and decided not to comply with such an order unless all other branches of business are also stopped. They include the running of street-cars and of milk-wagons, and as there are 1,800 saloons in the city, they felt very strong. Other meetings will be held and more definite action taken. It is altogether probable that determined resistance will be made to the Mayor's order, and as there are six saloon-keepers for every policeman, the Mayor is likely to make slow headway. The theatrical managers who were arrested for violating the order applying to them were all released in the Police Court by their promising to keep their houses closed on Sunday in the future. It is thought by many that so strong a clan as the saloon-keepers, should the Stubbs law be declared constitutional, will tie their cases up in the courts and defy the Mayor to the end of his term of office.