The recent alleged barring of a Negro girl from a motel near Burlington has had its reverberations in the Vermont Senate when a bill was filed providing a $500 fine for an owner of a place of public accommodations who discriminated against any race, color or creed.
The bill was filed by Senator Asa Bloomer of Rutland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which allowed, by unanimous consent, the late filing of this bill. Senator Bloomer, in 1947, served as the sponsor of an anti-bias bill suggested by the Anti-Defamation League of B’rith.
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