To Protect Citizens Against Lynching: Hearing ... on H.R. 11279 ... June 6, 1918

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Stran 5 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Stran 5 - States or any person held under arrest li.v or ;is a prisoner of or in internment by the United States, or the wife, husband, brother, sister, father, mother, son; daughter, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, whether of the whole blood or half blood, of any person in the military or naval forces of the Unite:! States or liable to service therein, as aforesaid, shall...
Stran 14 - ... land." Maj. SPINGARN. This is from a colored newspaper: While a negro man and his wife and two other negroes was being lynched without trial by a jury, and another negro was being lynched by a mob In Georgia as if he were a wild beast, Pvts. Henry Johnson and...
Stran 5 - ... arrest by or as a prisoner of or in internment by the United States, etc., would read as follows : or the dependent wife, brother, sister, father, mother, son, daughter, nephew, or niece, whether of the whole blood or half blood, of any person in the military or...
Stran 6 - Mr. REAVIS. Let us for the moment eliminate from the discussion the idea of lynching him by violence. Let us suppose there is an affray participated in by a man who has registered and another citizen of the Republic, and the man who registered is killed. Do you think that under the Constitution you could make that act punishable under the laws of the Federal Governmsnt?
Stran 3 - To protect citizens of the United States against lynching in default of protection by the State.
Stran 14 - which gives expression to their reasoning or ideas. They express themselves in print to a greater degree than they do in the South, but we have reports indicating that that condition exists everywhere. In fact, the report as to the demoralization of colored maids in a certain locality was from the North. On the other hand, the reports about the difference between the treatment accorded colored soldiers and colored civilians is from the South.
Stran 7 - ... punished according to law. Maj. SPINGARN. Exactly. Mr. DYER. There is no law that I have ever heard of that authorizes lynching in this country, no matter what a man does or does not do. Mr. THOMAS. In many cases it should be done. I think that a man who is guilty of rape should be lynched. Mr.
Stran 7 - The bill proposed by you would punish under Federal law the murder of one who happens to be the cousin of a man who might at some time in the future be a soldier, would it not? Maj. SPINGARN. That is very true. Mr.
Stran 6 - Maj. SPINGARN. Capt. Hornblower, of the Military Intelligence Branch. Mr. THOMAS. Is he a lawyer? Maj. SPINGARN. Yes, sir; or he was once. The purpose rf this bill is, first, to defend soldiers.

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