Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-11
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

The civil rights bill, after long and bitter
struggle, was finally disposed of in the House
of Representatives on Friday last, the final
ballotting having been preceded by an excl
ting debate in the presence of an immense as
semblage. The first vote was on an amend.
ment offered by Kellogg, Of Connecticut, to
strike out of the House bill the provision re.
lating to schools, and that was carried BY a
large majority, but without the yeas and nays.
The next vote was on the motion of Cessna, of
Pennsylvania, to substitute the Senate bill for
the House bill, and that was defeated. The
bill was then passed-yeas 1852; nays 100.
The next vote was on attaching, as a pream-
BILE to the bill, clause of the Democratic Ma
tional platform of 1872, affirming the equality
of all men before the law. That was adopt
ed-yeas 219; nays 23-the nays being all
Southern Democrats with one Northern Re-
publican, (Chittenden, of New York; The
bill now now goes to the Senate for action, as
an original House bill, having no relation
whatever to the bill passed by the Senate. 1t
is thought the bill will either be defeated in
the Senate, or that it will be suffered by that
body to go over as unfinished business. The
following is the full text of the bill as passed
by the House, omitting the preamble:
That all 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 or water, theatres
and other places of public amusement, sub.
iect only to the conditions and limitations es-
tablished by law and applicable alike to citi'
zens of every race and color, regardless Of any
previous condition of servitude. That any
person who shall violate the foregoing section,
by denying to any citizen, except for reasons
by law applicable to citizens of every race
and color, and regardless of any previous con-
dition of servitude, the full enjoyments of any
of the accommodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumerated, or
by aiding or melting such denial, shall, for
every such ofense, forfeit and pay the sum of
$500 to the person aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered in an action of debt, with full costs
and shall also, for every such offense be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
$500, nor more than 81 900, or shall be i'm
prisoned not less than thirty days, nor more
than one year: Provided, That all persons
may elect to sue for the penalty aforesaid, or
to proceed under their rights at common law,
and by State statutes; and having so elected,
to proceed in the one mode or the other, their
right to proceed in the other jurisdiction shall
be barred but this proviso shall not apply
to criminal proceedings, either under this Act
or the criminal law of any State And provi-
ded further, That judgment for the penalty
in favor of the party aggrieved, or a judgment
upon an indictment, shall be bar to either
prosecution respectively.
Sec. g. That the District and Circuit Courts
of the United States shall have, exclusive of