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===Judiciary Committee approval===

===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.

At the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]], the Dyer Bill elicited "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.

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.