The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Full Text OF the Senate Supplemental
Bu.

The civil rights bill, as it passed the
senate, reads as follows
Section 1. That all citizens and other
persons within the Jurisdiction of the
United States shall be entitled to the
full and equal enjoyment of the accom-
modations, advantages, facilities and
privileges of inns, public conveyances
on land or water, theaters and other
places of amusement, and also of COM
mon schools and public institutions of
learning CT benevolence supported in
whole or part by general taxation, and
OF cemeteries so supplied, and also in
stitutlons known as industrial colleges
endowed by the United States, subject
to the conditions and limitations estab-
Hshed by law and applicable alike to
citizens of every race and color, regard
less of any previous condition of servi-
tude.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall vi
olRte the foregoing section by denying
to any person entitled to it's benefits,
except for reasons by law applicable to
citizens of every race and color and re-
gardless of any previous condition of
servitude, the full enjoyment of any
accommodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumeTa-
ted, or inciting such denial, shall, for
every such offense, forfeit ard pay the
sum of five hundred dollars to the per-
son aggrieved thereby, to be recovered
in action on the case, with full costs,
and shall also be deemed guilty of a
nisdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than one
thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned
not more than one year; provided, that
the party so aggrieved shall not recover
more than one penalty and if the Of
fense is a refusal of burial, the penalty
may be recovered by the heirs at law
of the person whose body has been re-
fused 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 the
state statutes, and having so elected to
proceed in the one mode or the other,
their right to proceed in the other ju-
risdictiOn shall be barred but this pro-
viso shall not apply to criminal pro-
ceedings either under this act or the
criminal law of the state.
Sec. 3. That the district and circuit
courts of the United States shall have,
exclusively of the courts of the several
states, cognizance of all crimes and Of
fences against and violations of the pro-
atty given by the preceding section may
he prosecuted in the territorial, district
or circuit courts of the United States,
wherever the defendant may be found,
without regard to the other party, and
district attorneys, and mRrshals and
deputy marshRls of the United States
and commissioners appointed by the
circuit and territorial courts of the UNI
ted States with powers of arresting and
imprisonment and bailing offenders
against the laws of the United States,
are hereby specially authorized and re-
quired to institute proceedings against
every person who shall violate the pro-
visions 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 cognizance of the
Offense, except in respect of the right of
action aceruing to the person aRgrieved;
and such district attorneys shall cause
such proceedings to be prosecuted to
their termination as in other cases; pro-
vided that nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to deny or
defeat the civil action accruing to any
person by reason OF this act or otherwise.
Sec. 4. That no citizen, providing he
are or may be prescribed by law, shall
be disqualified for grand or petit juror
in any court of the United States or
of a state, on account of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude, and
any officer or other person, charged with
any duty in the selection or summOning
of Jurors, who shall exclude or fail to
summon any citizen for the cause afore-
said, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and fined not more than one
thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. That all cases arising under
the provisions of this act in the courts
of the United States, shall be review
able by the supreme court of the United
States, without regard to the sum in
controversy, under the same provisions
and regulations as are now provided by
law for the review of other causes in
said court.
The following is the vote by which
the bill finally passed
Yeas - Alcorn. Allison, Boutwell,,
Buckingham, Conkling, Edwards, Flan-
igan, Frelinghuysen, Hamlin, Harvey,
Howe, Ingalls,, Mitchell, Morrill,, of
Vermont, Oglesby, Patterson, Pease,
Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Wadleigh,
Washburn, West, Window, and Wright
-29.
Nays-Bogy, Boreman, Carpenter,
Cooper, Davis, Hager. Hamilton, of
Nd, Johnston, Kelley, Lewis, Nc
Creery, Merrimon, Norwood, Ransom,
Salisbury and Stockton-16.
Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Hitchcock,
Chandler, Ferry, of Michigan, Sherman
and Logan, who would have voted for
the bill, were paired with Messrs.
Stevenson, Thurman, Upton, Bayard,
Dennis, Goldthwaite and Gordon, who
would have voted against it.