ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
A BITTER DEBATE
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
WASHINGTON, April IG.
Representative Gavagan introduced an Anti-Lynching Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives by 227 to 119. after a six-hour debate. During the debate there was sectional bitterness.
The Bill provides for Federal punishment for the officers who permit prisoners to be taken from them and injured or killed. The Bill now goes to the Senate.
Representative Summers led the opposition to the Bill. He said that in the South they had a race problem with which the North was not familiar. He said lynchings were diminishing rapidly. The measure would make the conditions worse and would result in lynchings before arrests were made, lie said lhe measure was plainly uimonst itut ionol.
7he galleries were crowded with Negroes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1937, Page 7
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