Anti-Lynch

Leonidas C. Dyer, Representative from Missouri, whose AntiLynching bill was talked to death in the last session of Congress, is to make a tour of the West speaking in behalf of his bill. He hopes to talk it to passage in the next Congress. His speaking itinerary includes 17 cities, and his expenses will be paid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meanwhile an equivalent of his bill was passed with only one dissenting vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

The Dyer Anti-Lynch bill provides that culpable state officers and mobbists shall be tried in Federal Courts on failure of State courts to act, and that a county in which lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000, recoverable in a Federal Court.

All Southerners and most Democrats oppose the bill upon the ground that it is unconstitutional and an encroachment upon states' rights.

The constitutionality of the bill has been affirmed by:

The Judiciary Committee of the House.

The Judiciary Committee of the Senate.

The United States Attorney General and two former Attorneys General.

19 State Supreme Court Justices.

24 State Governors.

39 Mayors of large cities, North and South.