, 1874-06-27
The LAWS"
PROGRESS IN AMERICAN LEGIS-
LATION.
Is PUBLISHED
RY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDA

Oult6u y dleS OeidCc ny d majority vi IL
votes on the 23rd May last. The New
York Herald in making some comments
on the passage of the instrument asks this
question GAS the Gill Rights Bill may
be considered hencef prward a law OF the
land, what will be the consequences of
the enforcement of its provisions 2" An
swering its w query, the Herald further
says, 1T will not be long before the hotel
keepers, theatrical ard operate managers,
and other parties concerned in the city OF
New York, will be put to the test of the
equality of all races and colors as citizens
and customers; for we understand that
certain colored men have promised to take
the couceit out of certain would-be exclu-
sive establishments in New York on the
first opportunity.
In the Southern States this Bill, from all
that we have heard and seen on this sub
ject, will close the public schools, not on
ly in Georgi', where retaliation has been
threatened by the legislature, but in
every Southern State where the whites
hold the power, and in those States where
the blacks are supreme, as in South Caro-
Ina, Mississippi and Louisiana, the whites
VIII WiClIuld" lJClt ClItlulCu AIOtAI LIZ Pun
lie schools rather than submit to their
mingIing with the blacks under this Con-
gres>iouaI law of equality. Mr., Sargent,
of California tried al amendment autho-
rizirg separate schools fol whites and
blacks but the proposition vas dec AIRED
as destructive of the great leading principle
of the bill, and SO it was promptly voted
down.
There will unquestionably be q great
cOmmotion throughout the South close
upon the heels OF the passage of this bill,
aud the political consequences may be far
more serious aud extensive than any of the
republican leaders of this Congress antici-
pate"
The following is the text of the bill as
passed by the Sc ate =
All citizens and other persons within the
jurisdiction Of the United States shall be
entitled to the full and equal enjoyment
OF the accommodations, advantages, facili-
ties aud privileges Of inns, public convey
anceS on land or water, theatres and other
places of public amusement, and also of
common schools and public institutions Of
learning or benevolence supported ia
whole or in part by general taxation, and
OF Gem ster'es so supported, aud also the
institutions known as Agricultural Col
leges, endowed by the United States, sub
ject only to the conditions AMI limitations
established by law and applicable alike to
citizens of every race and color, regardless
of any previous condition of seryitude.
SECTION 2.-That Any person who shall
violate the foregoing section by denying
to any person entitled to its benefits, ex-
cept for reasons by law applicable to citi-
zens of every race and colo, and regardless
of any previous condition of servitude, the
full enjoyment of any of the accommoda-
tons, advantages facilities or privileges In
said section enumerated, or in citing such
denial, shall for every such offence forfeit
and pay the sum of $500 to the person
aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in an
action on the case, with full costs, and
shall also for every such offence be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be fined not more than
$1,000, or shall be imprisoned not more
than one year, provided, that the party
aggrleved shall not recover more than one