ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16906, 4 December 1922, Page 5

ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.

WITHDRAWN FROM CONGRESS. h \ Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright Australian ami X.Z. Cable Association. H AS!I [XGTOS. December —. Tile Anti-Lynching Bill is lost, the southern Democrats having non their filibuster fight against the measure. The Republicans, consulting among themselves, decided to withdraw the j measure, which has been supported by churches and social reform organisations throughout the country. Xegro organisations sjjeiit thousands of dollars in advertising, in the attempt to support for the measure. It is understood that. President Harding, seeing the hopelessness of the Bill being passed into law, and fearing at the same time the defeat of the Ships Subsidy Bid, ordered the withdrawal of the Bill in order to give the i Subsidy Bill an opportunity to i pass.

A cable message published on Friday said:—The House of Representatives passed the Ship Subsidy Bill with one or two vitiating alterations, but without the amendment which would have denied, the subsidy to any American ship carrying liquor. The Bill was passed by a small majority, more than ♦if tv Republicans joining the Democrats in voting “No.” Meantime the Bill cannot go to the Senate, because •mother administration is already ‘here, which promise* to disrupt that body, namely. th*» Antr-Lynchintr Bill. •■lnch aims to protect negroes in the '•nth. It has already parsed the rr «*mse. but declare ’bat the-v ttP! not permit of the Tn°a, •”r“ in the G and b»ve begun fiKhn *+-»*•. tt-V-c'V, +>, Ar th»V •'dll - maintain till March 4. making «0t legislative business impossible. The filibu&tm- moans that Opposition Sena- I tors obtaining' lhe floor will lallc in] relays for months. Th. cleanfe- i- not I -a'nle, and a vote L» ini possible.