Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-17
SEPARATE COACHES,
To Regulate the Travelling of White
and COlored Passengers on the
Railroads in Missouri.

Senator Charles J.. Walker, OF st.
Charles county, Mo-, one Of MiSsouri's
most conservative Senator'S has in
trodnce a bill requiring railroad com
panies to provide separate coaches for
white and colored passengers on the
railroad trains in Missouri. The bill
is as follows:
Be L eaqdod BY te Geaerai Assembly o.
he State Of Missouri, as foaors:
Section l. Any railroad company or
corporation, person or persons running
or otherwise operating railroad cars or
coaches by steam or otherwise on any
railroad line or track within this
State, and all railroad companies, per-
son or person, doing business in this
State, whether upon lines owned in
part or whole, or leased by them: and
an railroad companies person or per-
sons operating railroad lines that may
hereafter be built under existing char
tiers, or charters that dial hereafter be
granted in this State; and all foreign
corporations, companies, person or
persons organized under charters
granted, or that may be hereafter
granted by any other State, who may
now or may hereafter be engaged in
running or operating any of the rail
roads Of this State, either in part or
whole, either in their own name or
that Of Others, are hereby required to
furnish separate coaches or cars for
the travel or transportation Of the
white and colored passengers on their
respective lines Of railroad. Each
compartment Of a coach divided by a
good and substantial wooden partition,
with a door therein, shall be deemed
a separate coach within the meaning
Of this act, and each separate coach or
compartment shall bear in some con-
spicuOus place appropriate words in
plain letters indicating the race for
it is set apart.
Section :. The railroad companies,
person or persons shall make no differ
snce or discrimination in the quality,
convenience or accommodations in the
'ars or coaches or partitions set apart
white and eolored passengers.
Section B. Any railroad company
IT companies that shall fail, refuse or
to comply with the provisions
Il sections l and ? Of this act, shall be
leemed guilty Of a misdemeanor, and
lpOn indictment and conviction there.
4, shall be fined not less than FIVE
hundred nor more than one thousand
hundred dollars foreach offense.
Section 4. All circuit courts In
which railroads r operated in this
shall have complete jurisdiction
iver such offenses.
Section 5. The conductors or mana
'ers on all railroads shall have power,
nd are hereby required TO assign to
ach white or colored passenger his or
respective car or coach or cOmpart- |
nent, and should any passenger re-
to occupy the car, coach or COM
iartment TO which he or she may be
ssigned by theconductOr or manager, I
aid conductor OF manager shall have
he right to refuse 10 carry such pas ,
on his train, and may put such /,
assenger of Of the train. And for
aeh refusal and putting off the train
the manager, conductor nor J
company shall be liable for !
amages In any court.
Section 6. Amy conductor or mana ]
er on any railroad who shall fail or I
efuse to carry out the provisions Of
sction 5 of this act shall, upon con-
lotion, be fined not less than fifty :
or more than one hundred dollars for !.
lch oifense.
Section !. The provisions Of thisl
shall not apply to employees Of rail- 0
lads or persons employed as nurses or n
Ulcers in charge Of prisoners; nor n
ball the same apply to the transpor-
alton Of passengers in any cabOOse
ar attached To a freight train