The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-25
CIVIL RIGHTS
A Tennessee Legislator Comes
to the Rescue.

The following are the salient points
of bill int oduced in the House, last
week, by Representative Cole:
A bill to define the rights, duties and
liabilities of inn-keepers, common car
riers, and proprietors of places OF
amusement:
This bill provides that it shall be law
full tor any of above mentioned persons
to make additional charges, rates and
fares, to exclude from their places of
business, any persons whose hair has a
spiral curvature, not greater than one
| fourth of an inch radius, without regard
to race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
2. That it shall also be lawful for the
above to discriminate in their rates, or
to exclude from their places Of business,
conVeyances and places of amusement,
at their discretion, any one who is una
bic to draw a perpendicular from the
occipital bone to the ground, without
| impinging the heel or oscalcis of such
person or persons.
3. That it shall also be lawful to make
discrimination in charges, or to exclude
| from the abOVe-named places any per-
son or persons whose nasal bone does
not present an elevation of one-fourth
| inch at a point three-fourths of and
| inch below its incidence with the Os-
I
| fronts.
4. That it shall also be lawful to ex-
clude any one, the bottom of whose feet
describes a parabOlic curve, the asymp-
tote of which is equi-distant from the
point of departure and incidence.
3. That it shall also be lawful, by an
adjustment of these charges, to exclude
| from the above places, any one whose
sebaceOus or sudorific glands, emit any
funllV
| irritating the nerves of the schne1der1an
membrane, that by its reflex action on
the pneumogastic nerve, the stomach be-
comes excited to nausea.
6. That it shall also be lawful to eX-
clude any persons, whose ancestors
were cannibals, or were guilty of the
practice of voOdOism.
z. That it shall also be lawful to de-
mand any person or persons who shall
offer to patronize them, a certificate
from the keeper of weights and meas
ures attested as to his official character
by the Clerk of the County Court, of
the county in which he, she, or they
last resided, showing that by actual
measurement, mathematical calcula-
ton or geOmetrical demonstration, as
the case may require, that he, she, or
they are not obnoxious to any OF the OBJ
jections provided against in the 1st, I'd,
Sd and 4th sections of this act, and any
person or persons whe is deemed OBJ
nOXiOus to the 9th section of this act
may, in the discretion Of said persons,
be required to bring and produce one
quart bottle "Labarquis' Solution of
| Chlorimated Soda" as a disinfectant.
s. That if any person, or persons,
| from whom such certificate or disin-
| fecttant has been demanded, shall, by
| force, fraud, Misrepresentation, or by
producing any false or forged certifi-
! cate, or spurious disinfecfant, gain adj
mission into any public hotel, etc, may
! be prosecuted for a misdemeanOr, or
sued in any court of record in this State
| having common law jurisdiction in an
action quitum, and shall forfeit and pay
not less than $500, nor more than 81 600,
one-half of which shall go to the in
! former, and the other half to tho Com
missioners of Emigration for cOlOniZa-
| ton purposes, and shall be imprisoned
not less than thirty days, nor more
than one year.
8. That if any hotel-kecper, ETC., shall
unlawfully or negligently fail to assert,
and insist upon his or their rights and
| privileges as provided for in this act,
they shall be liable to presentment or
Indictment in any court in the State,
and shall forfeit not less than $500, nor
more than 81 900, and be imprisoned for
not less than 30 days, nor more than
one year, and shall for the space of five
years be ineligible to any office of honr,
profit or trust in this State, and incom-
petent as a witness or juror for a pc
Rod of 10 years from the date of his
conviction.
10. That all laws coming in conflict
with the provisions of this act are here
! L, :
ter, no right of action shall exist against
any inn-keeper, ETC., for refusing to re-
ceived and accommodate any guest, to
transport any passenger or admit any
visitors whom he may desire excluded
from his place of business, etc.