Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1921, Page 3

A DISTRICT DELEGATE IN CONGRESS URGED ON SENATE COMMITTEE | -Residents Make Plea at Suffrage Hearing|- for Pagsage of Limited enfranchisement of the resi- dents of the District of Columbia was urged upon the ‘Senate District com- mittee at the opening of the hearings on District suffrage measures now pending before that committee. The hearings are to be continued Monday, at 3 p.m. ) The committee determined to hold hearings on the resolution introduced by Senator Jones of Washlngton.] looking to a constitutional amend ment giving the citizens of the Dis- trict national representation, as well as on the Poindexter District delegate bill and the Capper bill providing for the election of District Commission- ers, a public utilities commission, the board of education, eic. Senator Jones, a member of the Dis- trict committee, found that his rese- lution had been referred to the Senate Jjudiciary committee. He went to the Senate floor while the hearing was under way in the District committee room and had his resolution referred the District committee. Allows Each Side Six Hour: Chairman Ball of the District com- mittee ruled that six hours would be allowed the proponents of Disrict suffrage to present their arguments, and a similar length of time would be allowed the opponents of such legislation. Col. Winfleld Jones of the National Press Club committee for District suffrage presented the witnesses in support of the Poindexter and Capper 8. E. C. Brandenburg, representing the Joint committee supporting the plan for national representation of the District through a constitutional amendment, called attention to the fact that full hearings on that meas- ure had been held before the House judiciary committee, and that an- other hearing was promised for the next session of Congress on the same measure (the Burroughs resolution) For that reason, he sald. the \pr ponents of the constitutional amen ment had not expected to be heard at this time. Senator Ball ruled, how- ever, that the entire subject would be considered by the committee, and that supporters of the constitutional amendment would be given an oppor- tlunity to be heard if they.desired. Sees Wide Suffrage Demand. Avery C. Marks, president of the National Press Club, was the ficst speaker called before the committec by Col. Jones yesterday. He told the committez he was convinced 90' per «cent of the people of Washington want some form of suftrage. He based this view on opinions expressed in letters written by citizens to a Jocal afteribon newspaper of Which he is managing editor. Pressed by Senator Ball as to particular form of suffrage the people want, Mr. Marks replied that, generally, they desire representation in Congress and e voice in their local government commensurate with the financial bur- dens they bear in maintaining that government. William A. Hickey of the Army and Navy Veterans put in a plea for suffrage on behalf of ex-service men without indorsing particularly either of the bills before the committee. “We fought for the principles of liberty.” he said. “We should have the right here to a governmient that is controlled by the volce "cf the majority. That is the principle of Americanism.” Reviews Efforts for Ballot. Following Mr. Hickey, Roy C. Clafllu: president of the District Delegates’ Association, - recounted to the com- mittee the efforts of that organiz: tion to obtain the ballot for District citizens. The ®ssociation, he id, came into existence in 1912 and soon worked up to a memberghip of 25,000 citizens of the District. It succeeded in bringing about the introduction of the Poindexter bill,- which was the subjeot of a hearing before the Sen- ate District committee in 1916. The committee reported favorably on the bill, he said, and it went upon the Senate calendar, being the only meas- ure of its kind to ever get that far 10 " Capper Bills. . Poindexter and‘ - toward recelving congressional sanc- on. Since 1916, Mr. Claflin continued, the campalgn for a delegate in Con- gress has been eclipsed by a cam- paign ta enfranchise Washingtonians through a constitutional amendment. Mr. Claflin said he was convinced the constitutional amendment fight could not win at this time, and that this is the logical time to renew the plea for a District delegate in Cnn-l gress. Reads Pleas for Delegate. Mr. Clafiin read into ‘the commit- tee record statements made by many members of Congress and prominent residents of the District in favor of giving -the people of the District a voice in their government thirough the election of a delegate to repre- sent them in the House. Among those whom he quoted were former Repre- sentative Rothermel of Pennsylvania, the.late Champ Clark, for many years Speaker of the House, who declared that it was the saddest commentary on~ representative government that 300,000 Americans residing at the na- tion's capital should be disfranchised; James Wickersham, former delegate from Alaska; former Representative Lobeck of Nebraska, Willlam C. Red- field, former Secretary of Commerce; John Burke, former Treasurer of the United States; William F. Gude, Ross P. Andrews, Mrs. Mary E. Brown gnd Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussy. Mr. Claflin told the committee that the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions in 1913 had voted unanimously in favor of the plan to have the Dlis- trict represented by a delegate in the House. Chairman Ball’ wanted to know If the meeting had been really repre- sentative, or if there had been only a handful of the delegates attending the meeting of the federation on this occasion.. He was assured by Mr. Claflin and by William McK. Clayton that the meeting had been entirely representative. Self-Government Opposed. Mr. Clayton said that the federation had voted, too, on the proposal of local self government for the Dis- trict, with the election of a town council, etc, and that the proposal had been overwhelmingly voted down. Mr. Clayton added, however, that the federation had been and is in favor of the plan for a constitutional amendment giving the District na- tional representation, with the right to elect members of the Senate and House and to vote for President and Vice President. Mr. Claflin read a letter written by Mrs. Mussey in which she declared that no -community has ever suffered 80 much from misrepresentation as the District. This caught the attention of Chair- man Ball immediately. He wanted to know if Mrs. Mussey meant that the government of the District was “worse than in other places. Mr. Claflin replied that he thought Mrs. Mussey merely had reference to the fact that members of Congress made statements on the floor when they knew little or nothing of the real situation in the District. “If you have a bad government here, it ought to be brought out,” de- clared Senator Ball. “If you merely desire a_voice ‘in your government, then that ought to be brought out.” Ple: “It is almost impossible,” continued Mr. Clafiin, “to find any one not in favor of giving the District a dele- gate to speak for it in Congress. It is true that many want national rep- resentation. But they do not stop to s for Delegate Bill. 5 Abe Martin Says: B “I kin' remember when we first started t’ stop gamblin’ in this country,” said Uncle Niles Turner, aged 103, t'day. If you khow what you want you're a crank, an’ if you don’t| know what you want you're an easy mark, accordin’ t’ most any clerk. « (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) — e the Senate and House will not vote for the constitutional amendment giving us national representation at this time. But an overwhelming majority of both houses will support the dele= gate bil He quoted Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania as favoring a District delegate in the House, and also 2s favoring the plan to ailow the resi- | dents of the District to vote {or Presi- dent and Vice President. “How do. you propose to select this delegate?’ asked Senator Sheppard of Texas. . Favors Popular Election. “By popular election,” answered Mr. Clafin. He said that in 1916 the Poindexter delegate bill had been re- ported & orably to the Senate from the District committee, Senator Pom- erene of Ohio making the report, though the bill had nu‘ been acted upon in the Senate. At this point Senator Ball suggest- ed it would be well to put into the record the character of government iven the District of Columbia when ocal suffrage was in vogue here, as well as during the operation of the present law. “We want to give you the best pos- | sible form of government,” he sald. [ Mr. Claflin said that other speakers would cover that subject. Senator Jones of Washington, re- ferring to the report of the Poindex- ter bill in 1916, said: “It was my opinion then and it is my opinion now that tHe Senate should not act on a proposal to have a District delegate elected to the House until after the House has acted upon it. The House should decide who shall sit in it, and the House is jealous of its privileges.’ “That” said Mr. Claflin, “is a mat- ter of procedure that is up to you. Labor Man for Delegate Plam. The next witness was W. W. Keeler, representative of orx_nnhed labor. He said that the labor organizations throughout the District were in favor of suffrage for the Distriot. He spoke in favor of the election of the Distriot Commissioners, the Public Utilities Commission_and the board of educa- tion, as Wallhuflof the election of a delegate to the House. esag:tor Jones asked if they did not want a delegate in the Senats, too, realize that it will be very difficult to itness replied he supposed obtain an amendment to the Consti- | S ‘anted ail they could get, but tution; that it may take years to realize | 3¢t yrogent it was only a House dele- this desire. s gate they were pressing for. Senator Capper of Kansas asked if | 5358 oY W80 KPG8 veinment of gate blil. “Yes,” said Mr. Claflin. “I belleve that is all we can get now. I know by investigation "that a majority of ure of s K e e ——— SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. TO THE_STOCKHOLDERS OF THE NEW Masonic Hall ('or.mn;nnn:“\rmtn‘r;e hereby that a special meeting of stock- Polders New Masonic Hall Corporation 7 X, fe 0 da. ovember. 3 o'clock p.m.. a O e Temple Congregational Church, 11th .w., for the purpose of receiv- ing reports from the board of directors.and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. JESSE H. MITCHELL, President. * CHARLES P. FORD, Secretary. ¢ WILL TAKE THREE PEOPLE, VICINITY 4th and Fairmont, office and return. closed e 2 each. 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Phone North 231232 BESE ) 950 Mr. Claflin favored the pending dele- \¢ne Disirict bad.” asked Senator Jones, “or do you merely want to participate in your own government?” “We mersly want a hand in our government,” replied Mr. Keeler. “Labor people are jealous of their rights as American citizena” “They are not alone in that” sug- gested Senator Jones. VT know that,” replied Mr. Keeler, adding that labor was keenly in- terested in the matter. E. C. Brandenberg at this point asked the witnees if labor organiza- tions here had not gone on record in favor of the plan for national repre- sentation. Have Changed Views. Mr. Keeler said they had, but re- cently they had favored the delegate bill as the more expedient plan. Mrs. May Wright Johnson of the Federation of Women's Clubs was the next speaker. She explained that the women of the District were par- ticularly interested in the election of a District delegate to the House be- cause they were interested in hav- ing the problems relating particularly to the children properly handled in Congrest They are interested also in the Borland act, relating to paving expenditures, which she said was not just, and the water situation here. Referring to the days when Wash- ington had a mayor, Mrs. Johnson said that one mayor had done a good job, though he left the District in debt, when he cleaned up the place, did away with ‘the old Tiber creek and gave the city good sewerage fa. cilities. ‘Willlam B. Westlake, former presi- dent of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, told the committee that the people here are looking for rompt action, giving them a voice at least . in their government. The people, he said, are not united as to what they want, but are divided as in other places on public questions. Some time ago, he said, they united on national representation for the District, and he said he believed they all want that today. People Demand’ Delegate. But many think national represen- tation would be very hard to-obtain at this time, he added, and they want this delegate bill in the meantime. It would be a great advantage to the people, as well as to members of Congress, to have a delegate in the House who could speak authorita- tively for the District, and explain the needs of the District. He said that all the people are pretty well satisfled with the form of govern- ment here, but they want some volce in it. They have confidence, he said, in Congress. Frank B. Lord, former gmldent of the National Press Clul said _he thought it unnecessary to argue be- fore nate committee, whose members. are elected by the people in their own stated, in favor of the ex-| tension of the franchise in a limited way to the people of the District. The people of the District, he said, are as intelligent as the people of other communities in this country. He gave it as his opinion that it was largely the fault of the people of the District themselves they have not obtained some voice in their own government, saying that they have not been able to unite on any plan and advance it successfully. It had only been in recent years, he said, that there has been any concerted action by the people, when Col. Jones started the national press commit- tes for suffrage in the District. He said that the delegate bill was a_*kind of compromise measure, ‘which the supporters of suffrage have agreed o Mr. Lord added that he thought Senator Jonés' suggestion that the Senate should wait until the —_— The artidle by M. Tardieu on “Secrets of the Werld War” ap- pears today on Page 26 of The House acted on-a delegate bill was more theoretical than practical. “Why should the District not have a delegate In the Senate, too? asked Senator Sheppard. * Senator Jones wanted to know If Mr. Lord favored the Capper bill as well as the Pofndexter bill,. the Cap- per bill vroviding for the efection of Distriot Commissioners, school board, ete. Suggests Election to Get Views. Mr. Lord said that it would be easy to hold an election in the District and find out what the people here really do_want. £ C. T. Clayton of the Columbia Helghts Citizens' Association, said that his assoclation had indorsed the plan_for national representation for the District. A committee of five, he sald, had been appointed to examine the Poindexter and Capper bills, and had favored the Poindexter bill but not the Capper bill. National representation, Mr. Clay- ton said, is what the citizens really want. He said he did not believe the fathers ever dreamed that the citizens in the District of Columbia would be deprived of their political rights to the extént to which they have been so_deprived. Senator Ball suggested that the Jones resolution would provide for statehood for the District. But this Senator Jones denied, saying that it merely looked to a constitutional amendment which would give Congress the power by legislation, it it saw fit, to allow the people of the District to elect representatives to the Senate and House and the electoral college, with- out changing the power of Congress over the District. Senator Ball's Views. :“I would like to see the citizens of the District entitled to vote for the President, who appoints your officers here,” said Senator Ball. He declared, however, that in seeking local self- government citizens were attempting to defeat the very object for which the District was created—to be the seat of the federal government under the control of Congress. Mr. Clayton said he heartily con- curred in this statement. He said that all previous experiments In government ment, and tha the people had been better off under the commission form of government than they had been be- fore it was established. At this point the proponents of the suffrage legislation had used up tw hours—the time alloted for yesterday" hearing—and the committee adjourned untfl- 2 ‘p.m. Monday. DEBATE GN SCHOOLS. Fully Discussed. The junior high school is an ad- vanced step in progressive educational development, speakers for the affirm- ative side contended in a debate on the advantages and disadvantages. of. the junior institution last night in the Public Library, whieh was held under the auspices of the Principals’ Union, The negative side favored the eight- zrade organization on the grounde of its close contact between teacher and pupil. The affirmative was upheld by Miss May P. Bradshaw, Miss Katherine Burden and H. F. Lowe. 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