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In common with you and with all Amer can citizens, I insist upon the enforcement of the law and abhor its violation. is no worse blot upon our civilization than mob violence and lynching. The bill now presented by the Judiciary Committee meets the evil and endeavors to afford a cure. I am very glad to do what lies in my power in behalf of this measure.|||Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (R–CA) to NAACP leader Walter F. White, early 1920s}}
In common with you and with all Amer can citizens, I insist upon the enforcement of the law and abhor its violation. is no worse blot upon our civilization than mob violence and lynching. The bill now presented by the Judiciary Committee meets the evil and endeavors to afford a cure. I am very glad to do what lies in my power in behalf of this measure.|||Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (R–CA) to NAACP leader Walter F. White, early 1920s}}
===Judiciary Committee approval===
At the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]], where it "got a chilly reception."<ref name=waldrep,p.76>"African Americans Confront Lynching," p. 76.</ref> Newspapers reported by the end of May 1922 that every U.S. senator, save Shortridge, completely doubted the constitutionality of the bill.
Plummer B. Young, the editor of the ''Norfolk Journal and Guide's'', publicly predicted a reversal of the Judiciary Committee's prepared disapproval following the mass murder of nineteen white miners in Herrin, Illinois, by a white mob, noting that the (white) U.S. senators would only feel compelled to barely approve anti-lynching legislation following the massacre.<ref name=waldrep,p.76/> On June 30, the committee approved the Dyer Bill "unexpectedly," validating Young's farsighted observations.
===Borah's accusation===
===Borah's accusation===