 The bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives in 1922, and in the same year it was given a favorable report by the United States Senate Committee.Its passage was blocked by white Democratic senators from the Solid South, the only representatives elected since the southern states had disenfranchised African Americans around the start of the 20th century.The Dyer Bill influenced later anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan-Wagner Bill, which was also defeated in the US Senate.