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==U.S. House: initial defeat, later passage==
==U.S. House: initial defeat, later passage==
===Failed Democratic opposition===
===Failed Democratic opposition===
[[File:James B. Aswell of LA.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Rep. Aswell (D–LA) denounced the Dyer Bill in racial terms.]]
Southern Democrats in the House, although unable to block the bill's ultimate passage in the chamber, vilified the legislation. Louisiana representative [[James B. Aswell]], repeating the traditional Democratic canard alleging rape as "the primary cause of the mob spirit,"<ref name=francis,p.112>"Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State," p. 112.</ref> castigated Dyer himself as attempting to deny justice for rapists.<ref name=waldrep,pp.74-75>Waldrep, Christopher (2008). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/African_Americans_Confront_Lynching/1e_mbgRmaGAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=james+aswell+dyer+bill&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era], pp. 74–75. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> South Carolina congressman and future [[United States Supreme Court]] justice (as well as [[Secretary of State]] under the Truman Administration) [[James F. Byrnes]] stated to an applause by the Southern bloc:<ref name=francis,p.112/>
Southern Democrats in the House, although unable to block the bill's ultimate passage in the chamber, vilified the legislation. Louisiana representative [[James B. Aswell]], repeating the traditional Democratic canard alleging rape as "the primary cause of the mob spirit,"<ref name=francis,p.112>"Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State," p. 112.</ref> castigated Dyer himself as attempting to deny justice for rapists.<ref name=waldrep,pp.74-75>Waldrep, Christopher (2008). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/African_Americans_Confront_Lynching/1e_mbgRmaGAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=james+aswell+dyer+bill&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era], pp. 74–75. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> South Carolina congressman and future [[United States Supreme Court]] justice (as well as [[Secretary of State]] under the Truman Administration) [[James F. Byrnes]] stated to an applause by the Southern bloc:<ref name=francis,p.112/>
{{cquote|It is the criminal Negro and the agitator of the North and East, both black and white, Negroes and white negroettes that mislead you into grievous error on this ignoble legislation.|||Rep. James F. Byrnes (D–SC), 1922}}
{{cquote|It is the criminal Negro and the agitator of the North and East, both black and white, Negroes and white negroettes that mislead you into grievous error on this ignoble legislation.|||Rep. James F. Byrnes (D–SC), 1922}}