ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS BLOCK MEASURE. Preii Allocution—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, December 2. The Amti-Lynching Bill is lost. The Southern Democrats won their filibuster fight against tho measure. The Republicans, after consulting among themselves, decided to withdraw the Bill, which had been supported by the churches and social reform organisations throughout the country. Tho negro organisations spent thousands of dollars in advertising in an attempt to gain support for the measure. It is understood, that President Harding, seeing tho hopelessness of gaining the passage of the law, and fearing at. the same time tho defeat of tho Ships Subsidy Bill/ ordered the withdrawal of the Bill in order to give tho Ships Subsidy Bill an opportunity to pass.—A. and) N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 6
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120ANTI-LYNCHING BILL Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 6
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