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Byrnes also branded proponents of the anti-lynching bill as a mob determined to violate constitutional principles; Mississippi Democratic representative Thomas U. Sisson, who suggested the genocide of black people worldwide, furthered Byrnes's comparison in graphically portraying the supporters of the Dyer Bill as stabbing a bleeding Constitution; Hatton W. Sumners of Texas criticized perceived influence by NAACP lobbyists.<ref name=waldrep,pp.74-75/>
Byrnes also branded proponents of the anti-lynching bill as a mob determined to violate constitutional principles; Mississippi Democratic representative Thomas U. Sisson, who suggested the genocide of black people worldwide, furthered Byrnes's comparison in graphically portraying the supporters of the Dyer Bill as stabbing a bleeding Constitution; Hatton W. Sumners of Texas criticized perceived influence by NAACP lobbyists.<ref name=waldrep,pp.74-75/>
[[Georgia]] progressive Democratic representative and [[Klansman]]<ref>1926. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forum_and_Column_Review/0MRZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover Forum and Column Review: Vol. 76], p. 49. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref><ref>Churchwell, Sarah (December 15, 2022). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wrath_to_Come/qwCfEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PT235&printsec=frontcover The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> [[William D. Upshaw]], despite his professed opposition to lynching,<ref>Upshaw, William D. (1923). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Clarion_Calls_from_Capitol_Hill/okcIAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PA209&printsec=frontcover Clarion Calls from Capitol Hill], p. 209. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> opposed the Dyer Bill.
[[Georgia]] progressive Democratic representative and [[Klansman]]<ref>1926. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forum_and_Column_Review/0MRZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover Forum and Column Review: Vol. 76], p. 49. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref><ref>Churchwell, Sarah (December 15, 2022). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wrath_to_Come/qwCfEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PT235&printsec=frontcover The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> [[William D. Upshaw]], despite his professed opposition to lynching,<ref>Upshaw, William D. (1923). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Clarion_Calls_from_Capitol_Hill/okcIAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+upshaw+lynching&pg=PA209&printsec=frontcover Clarion Calls from Capitol Hill], p. 209. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> opposed the Dyer Bill. Another, West Tennessee representative Finis Garrett (a future appointee by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] to a federal court), viciously reviled Republicans in a virulent rant:<ref name=talbert/>
{{cquote|You gentlemen do not know what it is to live in a section where a wife dare not travel alone in the fields. Whenever you put these ideas in the heads of those few black beasts of the ten million of their race, you are increasing the commission of crime.|||Rep. Finis J. Garrett (D–TN)}}
===House vote===
===House vote===