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DYER ANTI-LYNCH BILL SLATED TOR NEXT CONGRESSSenator Short ridge’s Efforts to Get Bill Through, Filibustered by Democrats.SPECIAL SESSION OFCONGRESS HELD LIKELYFight To Have Bill Made Federal Law Renewed—Liberian Loan Shelfed.(Morris Brown)(Norfolk Journal-Gulde)Washington, D. C. Sept.—The Dyer anti-lynching bill goes over to the next session of Congress, which, it is predicted, will be a special session called by the President about November 15. Final effort to secure its enactment before adjournment failed.Forces Combined.Not withstanding adverse criticism by the Crisis of the efforts of Henry Lincoln Johnson the Georgia member of the Republican National Committee. and Perry W. Howard, special assistant to the Attorney General, in trying to have the bill so framed when it was under consideration by the House judiciary Committee that it would be within the constitutional limitations, James Weldon Johnson, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called these men to aid in having the measure taken up be* fore adjournmentAs a result of their combined efforts, Senator Short ridge, Republican of California, who has the bill in charge, moved on last Thursday that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the measure. Although there are sixty Republican Senators, when the point of no quorum was made, there were only twenty-seven Senators in all answering the roll call, six of whom were Democrats. Conspicuous among the absentees were.Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, Joseph T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, and T. Coleman DuPont, of Delaware, all of whom are pledged to the support of the bill.Protests Against Adjournment.Just prior to the hour of adjournment on last Friday, Senator Sutherland, Republican, of West Virginia protested against the adjournment of the Senate until action was had on the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill. He stated that he was personally interested in the outcome of the pending elections, being a candidate for reelection before the people of my State, and regard it as Important that I should go to West Virginia for the purpose of carrying on a campaign. I believe however, that it is of more Importance to the Nation that this bill khould be enacted into law than that I should have the opportunity to pre-sent my case to the electorate of West Virginia, or that others of this body similarly situated should do so.*9 Of course, his protest went unheeded.It Is understood that immediately upon the reconvening of Congress,the administration Liberian loan bill will be temporarily laid aside and the Dyer anti-lynching bill will have the right of way in the Senate.
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The Northwestern Bulletin
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Oct 14, 1922
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