Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-27 | Page 10 | House Passes Anti-Mob Bill

i HOUSE PASSES 1 ANTI-MOB BILL French of Idaho, Offers Amendment Which Is Rejected WAPlirN'GTON. Jan. 27. The house Thursday declared Itself In favor of the federal government exerting lis authority In an effort to stamp out lynching, pass ing by a vote of 230 to 119 the Dyer antllynchlng bill Seventeen Republicans Joined 102 Democrats Demo-crats In voting In the opposition While eight Democrats and one Socialist LiOn-Oon. LiOn-Oon. New York, voted with 221 Republicans Repub-licans In favor of the measure. Republican w"n. vi-te.l in the njratlv Included Barbour. California; CUTTY, California: French. Idaho; Nolan. California, Cali-fornia, and Tarker. New Jersey. Robert-eon. Robert-eon. Oklahoma, and Slnnott. Orepen. LIFE TERM PROVIDED The bill provides life Imprisonment or )esaex penalties for persons who participate partici-pate in Ivnchingr and for state, county and municipal officials who fail throuj? I negligence to prevent them. The tni-.i-5uro also stipulated that the county In which mobs form or kill any one shall lorfclt $10,000 to the family of the vlc-1 vlc-1 l'm- . i Democrat!.- opponents, defeated In attempts at-tempts to recommit the hill to the ju-dlclarv ju-dlclarv committee und U ;tril.' w t the enacting clause rnnrte r, m-fort m-fort to have amendments adopted They declared "the vicious principle "f the bill" could not be changed by amendments, amend-ments, but expressed confidence that the measure never would receive senate ap-i ap-i roval. THREE MAKE MOB. Except for a few perfecting amendments amend-ments offered by Chairman Volstead of .he judiciary committee, amendment proposed by Individuals were rejected. ne by Representative French, Republican. Republi-can. Idaho, would have eliminated the provision requiring counties to forfeit $10,000 to families of mob victim." One committee amendment opprovi I removed from the bill the requirement A that counties through which aemob passed pass-ed should pay ;t penalty or $10,000. Another one accepted defined u mob M three or more persons acting together to ;ake human life Illegally. no