NEGROES: 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...

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