Thus, at its very inception, legislative enactment prevented the introduction into this state of a most demoralizing phase of the saloon business. In the same year and month a law forbidding the opening of the New York State exhibit at the Columbian Exhibition was passed, thus placing New York State on record as favoring the sanctity of the Sabbath. AN ACT in relation to the Exhibit of the State of New York at the World's Columbian Exhibition.... The exhibit of the State of New York at such exhibition shall not be open to the public on Sunday, and the general managers herein provided for shall take such steps as may be necessary to carry this provision into effect. The following protests were presented to the legislature, receiving such consideration that the subjects had no hearing: AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OF A LAW LICENSING VICE. _To the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York_: WHEREAS, It has come to our knowledge that a bill providing for the regulation and licensing of vice in the cities and towns of the State of New York will be introduced in the legislature, and that one of the provisions of the bill is the compulsory medical examination of women who are inmates of the establishments named therein, we respectfully submit the following in relation to it: It puts a premium on the social evil. It makes this terrible vice a branch of municipal government, and the state a partner in it. It inflicts the degradation of compulsory medical examination upon women, and lets their paramours go free. It is an outrage upon womanhood, and means the practical slavery of an unfortunate class of women. We realize all the shame of the bill, and feel its introduction in the legislature to be an insult to the great State of New York. _We emphatically_ PROTEST _against its consideration_, and appeal to you to use your influence and, if necessary, your votes against this dreadful and infamous bill. AGAINST THE EXCISE BILL OF THE STATE LIQUOR DEALERS' ASSOCIATION. WHEREAS, A bill prepared by the State Liquor Dealers' Association is before your honorable body, which provides for a Sunday license law (which means unrestrained liquor on the Sabbath); for special licenses for certain saloons in certain localities in cities; for the sale of wine and beer after one o'clock in the morning at public balls and entertainments given by any incorporated association; abolishes the requirement of real estate security on license bonds (thus striking a blow at the civil damage act); and makes it a misdemeanor for any person to enter a saloon during the hours when it is supposed to be closed in obedience to the law: