The Portland daily press., 1874-05-25
Washington News and Gossip.
PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
After session of twenty hours, at seven
o'clock Saturday morning the Senate passed
the civil rights bill by almost party vote,
Carpenter and Lewis being the only Republi.
cans voting who are recorded against it, Quite
anumber of Senators did not vote, including
Messrs. Schurz and Morrill, of this State The
debate was tedious, but frequently Iudicrous
Mr.. Sargent of Cal and Edmunds of VT had
quite tilt on the proposition of the former to
strike out common schools from tho provisions
of the bill, urging that the common school sys
tenn required all the strength it could gain from
all sources to meet the opposition of the Catho-
lie church, which is determined to overthrow
popular education. Mr. Edmunds said tha,
although he dissented from the beliefs of the
Catholic church, it could never be said of it
that it had Disseminated between man and
man on account of race or color. The vote
was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Alcorn, Allison, Boutwell,,
buckingham, Conkling, Edmunds, Flanagan.
Frelinghuysen, Hamlin, Harvey, Howe, In
gals, Mitchell, Morrill, of Vermont, Oglesby,
Patterson, Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson,
Sargent Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Wadlegh,
Washburn, West. Window and Wright-29
NUyo-oACoslos DOSJ, DUItmau, carpenter,
Cooper, Davis, Hager, Hamilton of Maryland,
Johnston, Kelly, Lewis, McCreery, Merrimon,
Norwood, Ransom, Salisbury and Stocktop-16.
Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Hitchcock, Chand-
Ter, Ferry of Michigan, Sherman and Logan,
who would have voted for the bill, were paired
with Messrs Stevenson, Thurman, Upton.
Bayard, Denny, Godthwait and Gordon. who
would have voted against it.
Mr. Morrill,, after the passage of the bill,
moved to take up the deficiency appropriation
bill, which was agreed to- and the Senate adj
journed to Monday.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The Civil Rights bill,as it passed the Senate,
reads as follows:
That 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, facilities and
privileges of inns, public conveyances on land
and water theatres and other places of public
amusement, and also of common schools and
public institutions of learning or benevolence
supported in whole or part by general taxation,
and of cemeteries so supported, and alse the
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 and color, regardless of any previous con-
di ton of servitude
Section 2. That any person who shall vio-
late the foregoing section, by denying to any
person entitled to its benefits, except for reasons
by law, applicable to citizens of every race
and color, and regardless of any previous con-
dtion of servitude, the full enjoyments of any
of the accommodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumerated, or in
citing such denial, shall, for every such Of
fence, forfeit and pay the sum of five hun bred
dollars 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
ueemed guilty Of a misdemeaner, and upon
convection thereof shall be fined not more than
o ,ne thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned
ro 10y riore IMAM one year, provided that the
10y .aSlIeVeS Shall not recover more than one
Penaity, and when the offence is refusal of
purIai the penalty may be recovered by the
nelrs-at-iaW OF the person whose body has
been refused burial, and provided further that
all persons may elect to sue for the nanaitv
aforesaid, or to proceed under their r;dbt. ~
common law and by State statutes. and havin@
so elected, to proceed, in the one mode or the
other, their right to proceed in the other iuris.
diction shall be barred, but this proviso shall
not apply to criminal proceedings, either under
this act or the criminal law of any State
Section 3. That the District and Circuit
Courts of the United States shall have, exclu-
svely of the courts of the several States, cog
nizance OF all crimes and offences against aud