The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-16
The Grill Rights Bill.
MINED SCHOOLS AND INCORPORATION


of the infamous Civil Rights Bill
which passed the Senate of the United
States by an overwhelming Republican
majority, and which received within
six votes of two-thirds Republican
ma iority in the House of Representa-
tives. For which Congressman j. H.
Lofand, and Joshua Maris, 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 wsrkingmen ,riH see that the the rich
Salary Grab aud Credit Mobilier, Radical
Congressmen ,Uould force negroes ,ato the
schools aud cemeteries of the poor man but
not into social equality Nth the children of
the rich man;
FoRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.
| IN SENATE.
| 1873, December MIR. Sumner in
Itroduced the following bill, Is. No. ~
which was read twice and ordered to
be printed. 1t is, verbatim, the above
bill given.
1874, January 27-Rcferrcd to the
Judiciary Committee.
April 14-Mr. Frelinghuysen repor-
ted the following as substitute,
which was considered April Goth,
land slightly amended, and is as fol-
Ilows:
That all citizens and other persons
within the jurisdiction of the United
States shall be entitled to the full and
lequal enjoyment of the accommoda-
Itions, advantages, facilities and privi-
lcges ofinns, public conveyances on land
or water, theatres, and other places of
Ipublic 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-
tons 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.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall
violate the foregoing section by deny
. ing to any person entitled to its bene
8 fits, except for reason by law applicabl,
to citizens of every race and color, ant
;, regardless of any previous condition
of servitude, the full enjoy
ment of any of the accommoda
tions, advantages, facilities or priv
: lleges in said section enumerated, or b,
aiding or melting such denial, shall TO
Ievery such offense, forfeit and pay tn
sum of five hundred dollars to the per
son agricved 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 conviction thereof, shall b
fined not more than one thousand dol
lars, or shall be imprisoned not NOR
!, than one year PROVIDED, That tn
Iparty aggrieved shall not recover NOR
than one penalty; and the offence i
refusal of burial, the penalty may b
recovered by the heirs at law of tina
: Iperson whose body has been refused
burial AND PROVIDED FURTHER, Tha
all persons may elect to sue for tn
lpenalty Aforesaid or to proceed unde
their rights at common law and b,
State statutes ; and having so elected
, Ito proceed in the one mode or tn
other, their right to proceed in til
Iothcr jurisdiction shall be barred :
But this proviso shall not apply (
terminal proceedings, either unde
!, this act or the criminal law of an
State.
Sec. 8. That the district and circui
courts of the United States shall have
Exclusively of the courts of the severe
States, cOgniZance of all crimes an
II offences against and violations of til
provisions of this act and actions fC
the penalty given by the precedin
section may be prosecuted in the teri
torial, district or circuit courts of tn
United States wherever the defendar
may be found, without regard to I'll
other party. And the district alto
ncys, marshals and deputy marshals
!. tho United States, and COMMISSIONS
appointed by the circuit and territori
1courts of the United States, with poy
ers of arresting and imprisoning ,
bailing offenders against the laws
Tic Shitth DtuttSj arc HcltDy sDttldI
authorized and required to institu
proceedings against every person wi
Il shall violate the provisions of this &C
. and cause him to be ested:and imprl
'' oned..or bailed as the case maybe for tri
IN before such court OF the United Stat,
n or territorial court as by law has co
BY nizance of the offense, except in I
ys spect of the right of action accruing
Sc the person aggrieved and such al
to trict attorneys shall cause such pr
,n% ceedings to be prosecuted to their Il
Ia mination, as in other cases PROVIDE
by That nothing contained in this sect,
~ shall be construed 10 deny or defe
aC, any right of civil action accruing
ip- any person, whether by reason OF Il
i, act or otherwise.
:" Sec. 4. That no citizen possessing
or other qualifications which are or may
md prescribed by law shall be disqualifi
for services as grand or petit juror
any court Of the United States, or of a
70 State, on account Of race, color, or p
my vious condition of servitude; and any
IAN icer or other person charged with a
re duty in the selection or surmounting