The daily gazette., 1874-10-27
For the Gazette
The Civil Rights Blu.

AWC OsOs0 AAsVSsto Dttts
MIXED SCHOOLS AND INCARCERATION.
Below we give an official and full copy
of Section 1, and synopsis of the other
Sections of theinfamousCivilR bill
which passed the Senate of the United
States by an overwhelming Republican
majority, and which received within
six votes of two-thirds Republican
majority in the House of Representa-
tiyes. For which Congressman J. r.
Lofland, and Joshua Maris, j Joel Thomp-
son, Senator Riddle and all the Repub-
lican members of our last Legislature
voted and against which all the Dem
Ocratic members of Congress and also
all the Democratic members of our
last Legislature voted and thus secured
its defeat.
The tpsrkingnen aUill see that the the rich
Salary Grab and Credit Mobilier, Radical
Congressmen iCould force negroes into the
schools and cemeteries of the poor man but
not into social equality acith the children of
the rich man.
1.-The following is copy of Section
1, and the synopsis of Sections of 2, 8,
4 and of the BILL
Sec. That all citizens and other per-
sons within Jurisdiction of the United
States shall be entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment of the accommoda-
tions, advantages, facilities and privi-
leges ofinns,public cOnveyances on land
or water, theatres, and other places of
pubic amusement AND ALSO OF COM
MON SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
OF LEARNING OR BENEvoLENCE SUP
PORTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY GEN
ERAL TAXATION AND OF CEMETERIES
so SUPPORTED and also the institu-
tions 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 and color,
regardless OF any previous condition
of servitude.
Section 2. Provides that anv person
who shall violate the foregoing sec
tion or aid or incite to the violation of
the same against any negro shall be liza
BILE to pay $500 dollars damages to the
} negro, and shall also be fined $1,000 and
be impr soned one year.
Section g. = Gives United States
Courts, exclusive and sole jurisdiction
over all violation of the Civil Rights
Bill, and requires United States Dis
trict Attorneys, Marshals and Commits
sioners to arrest, imprison and prose
ecute all persons who shall violate the
act.
Section 1. Forces the negro into
the grand jury box and the petit Jury
box of the State Courts as we'll as the
United States Courts, and imposes
fine of $1,000 on our Levy Court men
and our Prothonotaries and Clerks o
the Peace who shall refuse to put any
negro on our juries.
Section s. Allows negro to appea
to the United States Supreme Court il
every case no matrer how trifling ant
frivolous.
The following is the action of the
House upon the bill, and the record o
Mr.. Lofland on it as taken fran the re
tport of Mr.. Mcpherson, Clerk of tn
, House
Il In U. s. House of Representatives
May 25th, 1874. Mr.. b. f. Butle
moved to suspend the rules and refe
the bill to the Judiciary Committe
with the right to report it to the Hous
= AT ANY TIME for passage.
!. Yeas, 154, all Republicans, includin
Mr.. j. r. Lofiand. Nays, So, compri.
n ing 70 Democrats and only 10 Republ
" cans, within six of the necessary TIVE
ss third majority.
,eI June 8, 1874. Mr.. Benz. f. Butlc
l mr. 70 II 4
1t take from the table the Civil Right
l. Bill, and refer the same to the Jud
y ciary Committee with the right to r,
.. port at any time and to allow a motto
10 in the House TO STRIKE OUT THE acHoO
:. CLAUSE of that bill
The necessary two-thirds not vOiin
in favor of the motion it was rejecte'
p Yeas, 1888 Nays, So; not voting, 6
On this motion Mr.. Lofland voted ma
Probably because it proposed TO prohil
ts the "miaed Schools" for avhich he had not
N a te,o days previous.
e. June 20, 1874. The Civil Rigl
ae bill was reached on the Speakers tab
under the order of business adoLte
and was read.
The motion to suspend the rules III
he pass the bill was disagreed to, (tw
No thirds not voting in its favor), yei
ly. 40 nays, 81; not voting, so. N
Of Lohand not voting because he eth
70; dodged:or was absent.
he The official proceedings of Congr'
,ty therefore show that the Senate pass
ND the Civil Rights Bill, that the Hol
y. came within six votes of passing it, Il
our Senators and all the Democra
IN, IN, members of Congress opposed it, al
that Mr.. Lofand voted for it sohen it ,
AK sS, to carry mired schools, as,d Voted agains
as phen it was proposed to proIribit mi'
hh; at schools. Erit tLofdnds Surely the C
lis gressional places rhich once knew him sh
mn kno,D han, no mere.
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