The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-05-29
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Text of the Civil Rights Dill which
Passed tho Senate last Saturday.
The United States Senate on Saturday

The United States Senate on Saturday.
The Senate, after session Of twenty
hours, passed the civil rights bill by
vote Of 20 to IS, az follows:
Yeas-Alcorn, Allison. Boutwell,,
Buckingham, Coukliug. Edmunds, Flan-
agan, Frelnghuysen, Hamlin, Harvey,
Howe, Ingalls,, Mitchell, Morrill,, (of
vermonD, Oglesby, Patterson, Peasc,
Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Sargent,
Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Wadleigh,
Washburn, West, Window, and Wright
20.
Nays-Bogy, Boreman, Carpenter,
Cooper, Davis, IIager, Hamilton (ef
Maryland, Johnston, Kelley, Lewis,
McCreery, Merrimon, Norwood. Ran
som, Saulsbery, and Siockton--l6.
Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Hitchcock,
Chandler, Ferry of Michigan, Sherman,
and Logan, who would have voted for
the bill, were paired with Messrs. Ste
venson, Thurman, Upton, Bayard, Den
mis-, Goldright, and Gordon, who would
have voted against it.
When the announcement was made by
the Chair that the bill had passed, ten
or twelve colored men in the gallery,
where they had been all night, ap-
plauded.
TEXT OF THE BILL.
SEC. 1. That all citizens and other per-
sons within the jurisdiction of the United
States shall be entitled to full and
equal enjoyment of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities, and privileges OF
inns, public conveyances on land or wat.
er, theatre and other places Of public
amusement, and also of common schools
and public institutions of learning or
benevolence supported in Whole or in
part by general taxation, and of GENE.
teries so supported, and also institutions
known as Agricultural Colleges, endowed
by the United States, subject only TO the
conditions and limitations established by
law, and applicable alike to citizens OF
every race aud color, regardless Of any
previous condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. That any person who shall
violate the foregoing section, by denying
to spy person entitled to its benefits, ex'
cept for reasons by law applicable to
every race and color. and regardless to
any previous condition of servitude. the
full enjoyment of any accommodations,
advantages, facilities, or privileges in the
said section enumerated, or of melting
such denial, shall for every oilense forfeit
and pay the sum of $500 to the person
aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in
action on the case, with full costs; and
shall also for every such ohense be
deemed misdemeanor, and, upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not more
than one thousand dollars, or shall be
Imprisoned not more tha-~ one year pro.
vided. that the party aggrieved shall not
recover more than one penalty, and
when the offense is a refusal of burial, the
penalty may be recovered by the heirs at
law of the person whose body has been
refused burial and provided further,
that all persons may elect to sue for the
penalty aforesaid. or to proceed under
their rights at common law and State
statutes, and having SO elected to proceed
in another jurisdiction shall be barred /;
but the proviso shall not apply to crimi'
nal proceedings, either under this act or
the criminal law of any State.
SEC. 3. That District and Circuit
Courts of the United States shall have
exclusively, of the courts of the several
several States, cognizance Of all the
crimes and ofienses against the violations
Of the provisions of this act, and ac-
tons for the penalty given by the pre-
ceding section may be prosecuted in Ter
ritoral. District or Circuit Courts of the
United States wherever the defendant
may be found, without regard to other
party and District Attorneys, Marshals
Deputy Marshals of the United States,
and commissioners appointed by Circuit
and Territorial Courts of the United
States, with powers Of arresting and i'm
prisoning and bailing offenders against
the laws of the United States, are here
by especially authorized and required to
institute proceedings against every per
son who shall violate the provisions of
this act, and cause him to be arrested
and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case
may be, for trial before such court Of
the United States or territorial court as
BY law has cognizancc Of the ohcnse, ex'
cept IN respect of the rights of action
uccruing TO the person sgsrived; and
such district attorneys shall cause such
proceedings to be prosecuted to their
termination, as in other cases, provided
that nothing contained in this section
shall be construed to deny or defeat any
right of civil action accruing to any
person by reason of this act or other
wise.
SEC, 4. That no citizen, providing all
other qualifications which are or may be
prescribed by law, shall be disqualified
for services as grand or petit juror
in any court of the United States, OF
of any State. on account of race. color,
or nreyious cnnditinn of seryituhe and