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Show "ANTI-LYNCHING LAW" PLACED BEFORE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 22 An "antl-lynching "antl-lynching law" -was rcportod out today to-day by tho house judiciary committoo and placed on tho calendar for oarly consideration. Undor tho measure, any resident would be entitled to appeal ap-peal to federal courts for protection on the ground that ho had reasonable causo to believe that equal protection of tho laws would be denied him in state courts. Participants in mobs would bo subject to fine and imprisonment, impris-onment, and counties in which lynch-Ings lynch-Ings occur would be subject to a forfeiture for-feiture of $10,000. The majority committee report was drafted by Representative Dyer, Republican, Re-publican, Missouri. |