New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-17
COMMENTS IN THIS CITY.
JUSTICE DONoHUE's vIEws-HoTEL MANAGERS nc
GREATLY AFFECTED.

JUSTICE DONOHIES NlEWS-HOIEL MANAGERS NOG
GREATLY AFFECTED.
Justice DOnOhuc, of the Supreme Court, was
asked by TRIBUNE reporter yesterday what he
thought the decision tho United States Supreme
Cort declaring the Ciyil Rights bill unconstitutional.
In reply ne sad think that 1t shows that get
ting back 10 constitutional moorngs. The regulation
Of growing of the question Of color In the
races belongs the and should he. determined
upon by each State for Itself The difficulty in this whole
matter * due the fact that there has been too much
agitation the color line Leave the coIored people
alone and they viii take OF themselves as other
people do The matter will regulate itself on a common
basis. As soon You begin agitation OF subject
Ike this that trouble begins 10 brew. The color
question should have been the subject Of Federal
legislation Now can get along without difficulty with
the darkcy. can ride IN q strcct-car and do so
other people do and have trouble about It, Leave the
regulation Of who shall ride IN the hor,coars to the
mon Of the officials, just It should hc left I'm tho
Of the theatre with the management. II conrod
person behaves himself nobody will trouble him or think
about him. Let him alone Just you would anybody
else who attends to hl- business. This decision OF
the Supreme Court places the matter whcrc IL should he
where Il bc regulated Ike thousands Of other sim
liar matters by the average common sense Of the com
n-iuy. have had darkcy clients and got along with
them ~ did with other clients"
DO you think that thi, decision viii leave the negro NJ
the mercy Of those who dislike him, especially In tho
South |"
Not at all. There "a not tho least danger Oft Ho
will have his rights, everybody else has. Nobody
would turn him ont of theatre or OF strcctcW any
more than before. His status before the law will DO
essentially unchanged"
United states Dstrict-Atornry Root said that he had
read the from the decision given In the morning
papers could judge from the reports the
decision would probably not have great eject on the
legal standing the colorcd In regard to their rights
I.. III o. 1 Ytrg i'm .nf
Ncw-YorK The general laws governing common
ricrs and hotels such that n persons wcrc sup
posed have equal standing, and n there WAS no
State aw which Disseminated on account Of race the
United States, ho understood could not Interfere.
There no law that Mr.. Root knew In tai, state that
made n discrimination account of race and color Tho
general laws would probably be- sufficient 10 prevent any
laul-lip- to fhr cOlorrd people
Several managers NJ hotels who asked for their
views regarding the decision thought that 10 would have
little their interests, though IL might save them
from an occasional suit FOR damages. Mr.. Wcthcrhco
OF the Windsor said that coorcd people never troubled
him and hr never sued by them. Ihry usually are
too blc 10 20 where they are not wanted" said he,
and they prefer hotels where they are sure 10 be- wei
Comc-u-unlly cheap class ~ houses. Al the ho'ei
Brunswick Sir Wilkinson aycucd that the coored
people disturbed the serenity of the clerks by a
py Ing for rooms and hc thought the decision ~ To the
jiUl Rights bin did not interest him particularly
Why, o@Gr'd people meyer come nGrr sad Hlr iIsh1
man, al Drmouioo'S or course there arc once IN
while, some distinguished South Americans or dark,
skinned p,op" uf other countries who are cnirrhlnrl
here and always give them room by themselves.
II all depends the clerk" said Of the men at the
Filth Avenue Hotel Office "WuuihcT OF not You nave
Ci,l Rights suits or many other kinds Of trouble with
quests a hotel. good hotel clerk can weigh man
, soon hc 10 this dcSk and opens hls mouth
II any II Objectionable, why IL Il easy enough 70 put
him of. Call tomorrow. Rooms all nun See On
we do entertain people ~ color, Ike the Curtan I'm
bussy princes and pOtcntItcs. But We nave no uouDc
from the coOrud people class. At the A-Jor House
Il said that coorcd people never gave my trouble
The Rev. X. II. g. Dyson, pastor or Llon Methodist
Episcopal Church. gave his opinion OI the decision aA
follows. do not why Justice Hdrlaus opinion
should not be- good rs Justice BrudIcys II not II
seems 10 prove that Bradley knows more than Harlan
and the Congress aud tho President who made tho law
Now suppose matters Will go back 10 the old state In
the South and cOlorcd people viii have 10 ride n snok-
ing cars, whether the fumes ot tohncoo ana "hI-kcy
mako them sick or not They used 10 put US IN dog
ears Now II would be- pity, wouldn't IT, II Mr' Lang
ston Minister 10 HHyu, or Frederick Douglass.
-hould have 10 travel through the Houth lh doE Sm
owing the unconsttuuOualty Of the Clvll ights b
Il would look II the Government did not know WHAT
II was doing In clcyatlng 10 public stations men VINO
could not have the ordinary Tighta ana COhNthchces Oh
citizens.