Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1922, Page 4

ACTION erssra enate District Cofimmittee :’)E'%pe_cteJ toi 1 Report Favorably on Measure for Di- vorcement—Arguments Presented. s s “Prompt action on a measure to re-j| Reve the District Commissioners from having to act as a public utili- fles commission was forecast’ at the Rearings before the Senate District ymmittee vesterday on the several E&Iaurea pending there for~provid- g suffrage and national representa- tlon for thé District of Columbia. 3A measure lobkink to this divorce- mMent of public utilities control from the Commissioners will be reported favorably by the Senmate District] gommittee at its meeting next Wed- Resduy, it was indicated, and will be Ppushed on the floor of the Senate. No| such measure is at present pending th the Senate committee, but it is Probable that one will be introduced 'hon the Senate meets Monday. The matter came up during llm' dburse of the statement of Willian Clayton, who was arguing fe spokesman’ in Congress for the; ople of the District. lie said that r cight years the people here huad en trying to have the Commission-! s relieved of the public utilities; control. H { Semator Jomes Urges Bill. ! % “I think that control of the public wmiamfl { OF UTILITIES CONTROL LIKELY authority to give.the District a dele- gate now. Tt is important that the District have a representative in Con- gress now, he said, adding that cer- tain corporations had found it of value to employ counsel to look after their interests in Congress. So. therefor: the people are entitled t) have some one to look out for their. interests. He said that without an official rep- resentative in Congress much misin- formation regarding conditions here| w en on the floors of both houses | by members. After Mr. Clayton said that he was for the election of the Commissioners first and election of the school board second, Senator - Ball Interrupted to that he did not believe that it ould help matters to have an elect- chool board becpuse of the danger tting the scuools into politics. Senator Ball sald that he didn’t know System Declared Satisfactory. Senator Jones interrupted to say t in Washington stat: the school rds are elected and that the was ve satistactory ther feh Mr Clavton added the opinion | that ‘an ve selool hoard would bring the hols closer to the peopl as they should be, and that the par- ents wonld see-that only the best peo- cted for trustees. Associations and by that organl tion to its member bodies. He also|Death Claims Mrs. Alvey, Widow “be ob- tained on all bills if they- were re- ferred to the Federation af Gitizens’ every year people come hgre to fill government positions, agll semain when their term expires, ind/chting to bim, he sald, that they didZn6t want to vote. -He contended t+Wash- ington now is the best governed.city in_ the United States, “and -$leaded pointed out to .the comn}tee that against changing the presemt system. Tax Statement Presented. E. W. Oyster filed with the commit- tee a lengthy tabulation . of -figures showing where the taxes of the Dis- trict come from. He said that tables would show how the taxes here had increased in late years, and said his reason for filing them was because Congress was so misinformed con- cerning conditions here. ‘-t\\'hy do you say that Congress is no informed as to these things?” the Senate recently it was shown that Congress didn't know that the people of the District paid a tax on intangible personal property. 1 don’t believe that Congress Is aware of the assesswments here.” Col. Jones said that a poll of Con- gress had been taken, and that it shows that the constitutional amend- ment resolution could not be passed. For that reason, he sald, his commit- tee favored the delegate, but he added that it was for national representa- tion if it could be obtained. ¥ with _hh‘('[l\'(‘ school Citizens’ Associations Attacked. s tood high amons the| Mr. Gurley returned to the stand to ucational systems. attack citizens' assoctations as not be- ing representati pointing out that it would not suffice to send bills to them for report. To be representa- tive, he said, they should be given a iegal status. He said one could read frequently in the papers of measures ed by these bodies by votes of 15 to 6 or 20 to 9, in a body which approximately fifty to sixty. tive bodies. Most of these meetings Worthington, Frederick, Md.; Mrs. Margaret Allen, Darlington, Md., and Mrs. J. Vintent ‘Jamison, Jjr.,” of Hagerstown, Md. GETS $750 VERDICT. # A Jury in the Municipal Court has | granted John R. Sampson a verdict for $750 damages against the Wash- ington Terminal Company. Sampson ‘was emplayed n icer. He claimed that a bucket provided for him to carry the ice was defective He cut his finger, causing a local blood poi- soning which kept him from working DIES AT AGE OF 84. Washington-Virginia Iine An- w nounces Reduction. ight rates on the Wa. hington- Vir#inia Rallway Company between Wa#nington, Alexandria, Mount Ver- n¢n and all intermediate stations are to de reduced, the management of the road announced today. Beginning January 31, the road will inaugurate a daily freight sertice between Washington and the follow- ing stations: Clarendon, Ballston, for several months, He was repre- |Falls Church, Dunn Loring, Vienna, sented by Attorneys Newmyer & lOakton, Fairfax and intermediate King. stations, from 13% street and Ohio of Former D. C. Chief Justice. Mrs. Julia Jones Alvey, elghty-four years old, widow of Richard H. Alvey, tormer chief justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and the Maryland Court of Appeals, died in Hagerstown, Md., yesterday, according to word received here. Mrs. Alvey was born at Sharpsburg, Md., in 1838, and was married to Richard H. Alvey, then a paroled prisoner of the civll war, in 1862. The following children survive: Wil- liam Alvey of Galveston, Tex.; Frank Alvey, Beaumont, T Mrs. Julia An Amazing Confession! How the Judge’s own sister-in-law end- _ ed the Cardigan UtIES, ANGUIL, etk s Mromuntig ) e ot fona] [are controlled by a small number of - h on't know WhY |15 way through the <. but in the ! Lesh, chairman of the e don't Teport @ bill to change SRS (BTOUED the states, b He roup of the City Club, asked e Sl b Z tee | @180 asked that District N e | Col. Jones if it were not true that ; iEvery member of the committee (1iiial. s weil as the schonl board | When his organization was formed it gnd every member of the Senate is | 1L asthe: schoal ihaard | 201t 1 Caberas o itat stAnd ITonLa: gnizant of the condition of the: ®N0 ities Commission. | ELILEl HONbeTe O eng. aud . that blic utilitivs here and v hat’ e here | the stand for a delegate did not really ator Bell. chaltman. of the com- ng-Coolidge League, | TIPTeRent he standjfossasconstitss \ttee. “The public utilities here | lenzthy paper arguing | O SRERAMEBL @ o 11 tne am ed attention more than anything| the District people did | o0l oo He RO e e the poil gt ¥ GERE rRifwax )] co wn affairs they eiect- | Ve, but added that when the po! DR s Bk che b 1 B rere | Showed that it couid not get national It s i gl G o (o bellevh that they | fepresentation, it changed to the Would not do the same thing if again | (clesate plan. He said they were vers the S otpartimity: #The o] ‘or senators and representatives, SOttt e wwored the delegate plan in order its attention vely to this railroad situati | I hope that,the matter will b ought up at the next meéting of) and e committee reported,” said nator Jones. “I will bring it up and report it,” sponded Senator Ball Colored Issue Recalled: tuation here is damnable. ing from bad, bad. bad to wors orse all the time. There should 1 public utilitles = commissio e hich would give John H. Ad opposi- | on to suifl § at the Dis E Tesult of the adoption con itutional amendment the | lored man the right to vote, but at ime he challenged the amendme pointing his opinion that it s a state rixht to sav who should pte. He asked the committee not to | ke any action wh would return fashington to con vich ex- | ted from 1802 to 1§74, when the city | d an autonomous government He attempted to et into the lengthy brief attacking the the constitutional ame & the colored man th: r t Senator Ball and ht to vot Jone th objected to its s . an e former ruled it out. id that this commi nten- | it had noth- | ing to thresh out jon as that, saying Pz to do with the (uestion of giving | firage to the District. | £ Regarded Temporary Action. 3 When the organ i;hmu-d it was nev ould be 7 any t, Mr. Clayton ar- He said ued that the debates jn | indicated that when the taken m the Dis- | intgnded as ! {o s 1 that here 3 ppointed to @ temporary measure. all that the office; Mere at this time nment, so f:\r‘(}:\| R nderstand pubHc obirkon x Senator Jones asked Mr. ¥ believed the Instrict could get a tter administration and have better | officers than .they, now havo if the People were allowad to elect them : “I do;” emphatipally responde Mr ayton. Mr. Clayton pointed out to the com- shittee that the people here should | have some m ng -their | ¢ ews oliciall ngress, an di ed that tienlarly n s gon the Commissioners v id not act in srdance with the ishes of the people. { Submitted to Commissioners. } Senator all interrupted to an unce that it was the uniform pra tice of the Senate District committe: Bow to send to the, District Comm sioners for investiggtion and recom- mendation every single measure in-| oduced in the Senate affecting the istrict of Columbia. Neverthel Mr.,Clavton respond- | ed, measures do pass without beinz Rrought to the attention of the people ! forehand. He cited the so-called! jorland street paving law, under which property owners are required to pay one-half the cost of paving abutting their property. Mr. Clayton #gid that the people never had an @pportunity to be heard on that meas- ure. He cited also the case of the raising of the lexal rate of interest here from & to § per cent, pointing out that people here now are being forced to pay 7 and § per cent for jorrowed money. In this.particular | se. he said, the measure was in-| uded amonz some amendme the District code, and no one knew &nything about it until it was p Another phase developed by ticular piece’ of legislatic of fhe pu wereentit return of & per cent:an®their restment. i _If the District h even al voteless delegate at the time, it would not have happened, said Mr. Clayton. . : Senator Ball interrupted te say that! the states, he sail me condition of m ipped through durin closing urs, without any one realizing what ey mean . i I Public Would Have Objected. | “I'll tell you what would happen Here” said Mr. 'Clagton, " istrict had a delegate. - If the dele-! te had let that slip through, he ould have heard from the people d he would not have been returned Congress.” a pressing need for a jpresentative in ( gress who could eak with authority for the people the District, he continuedl. There re efforts recently of some interests strike dowa the building associa- ns here, hd 'said. when one déle- tion wanted one thing, a second other, and a third another, when e member of Congress.asked him hy there could nof . be-some; one cially in Congress such as a- dele- te, who knew the situation and uld be looked to for the proper| formation. Wl . Senator Jones pointed out here that| delegate would not fill the bill. He| id that for years he had been striv- g to aid Alaska in various legisla- e matters, but-the interests were divided that they could not get to-| ther. The delegate from Alaska uld not speak with authority, he ntinued. He doesn't have any vote, d he is puled this way and that the powers up there. “So,” he comcluded, “it doesn’t help tters any to have a delegate in ngress.” “But the territories had delegates fore they were admitted as states,” responded Senator Jones. am giving you the benefit of my perience with delegates. They 'ouldn’t be of any help.” For National Representation. Mr. Clayton said that he stood for tional representation, but in the Igterim, while waiting for the states ratify the amendment to the Con- tution, there should be a delegate. pointed out that Congress had g e - the | ! comme own nd ear which had appex tell in | | ‘ongress | | start. the final hearing on the tor Sheppird in clos- that the committee S said woul people the (08 OO ob f i e . peal; Aelh o REit 2 H 8 gations to the citizens | sishtuced ALty 5,,3”"""1,[,\.1"“y 10 had appeared before it and had 4 men - leiven it much information on the Seen No. Deteimont. | subject that would be enlightening. ‘He said he had represented | the Distriet many tim at republican V S ntions it o thae aa e, CHECKS_UP_ON_PUPILS. 1 to the detriment! e Shgon gton l];‘ at-'Dr. Ballou Listing Those Repeat- ire that every ci ing Grades. Ste the s to complete statistics showing number of public school puplls i Juch leglS| who are repeating grades or have pconte a) Iepeated them, were taken today by | Supt. Frank W. Eallou. Tabulation {.\lh ©1s were sent out by the superin- ! tendent to teachers in the grade The list will include pupils 1d including those in the grad- asses who are likely to fail erm The figure act p will be used to find the »portion of the school enroll- a not able to keep up W - and also to aid in the formulation of a system for correct- ing the practi et e T BIG SISTERS ELECT. Monsignor Thomas Is Chosen President. The Big Sisters’ Society, at the annual meting last night at 324 with a vot ! Indiana avenue, re-elected Monsignor a voice. but no i : d ot that it was proper for the | C; ¥+ Thomas president, and chose s to be represonte Mrs. S. V. Farling vice president at n entit lar hould urley a local s nrain‘a he i : e ropay The following officers also were ¢ (he Dist ound wiiich Xbd vast h¥oryads Eqctippal vice presidents, the po tood ? \\%x 340 A% AL TR S t; Miss Boland. northeast; Mrs. Thomas southwest and Mrs Rose southeast. Recording Miss M. M. Fineran; corre- secretary, Mrs. H. M. Helms; financial secretary, Mrs. Irene Connor, and treasurer, Miss Agnes Cotter. Mrs. M. F. Talty, Mrs. Annie Mrs. H. M. Surguy, Mrs. J. D. here destroy and Mr Kovert Babbitt fnitiat people who.coume | were appointed directors. - from to work in the ¥ partments. There is no respor s e e i, 0ons TWO GET_PRISON TERMS. lie pointed out, was noticed by | 2 rs who come to the cit The Four and Eight Years, Respective- here, he went on, get used to everything done for them, un- | destroys dll initiative He ! t us a vicious system | <cd for half a century | 1y, for Causing Deaths. { Herbert O. Coates, colored, recently convicted of mansiaughter in causing which | to destre itiation of the people | the death of Hatton Phillips, seven of the D years old, by running him down in an R ek jauto truck, was sentenced yesterday ZafCTSpeeches ’f‘;"_“’l 3 been | DY Justice'Siddons in Criminal Divi- Roy C. « ot had Tefnt | sion 2 to serve four years in the peni- r Pr nt Taftlientiary, “The accident occurred in 4 sclf ‘as opposed to | Jio T, repre r the District H’; John Gentry, colored, who recently speecl said he had received | pleaded guilty to manslaughter in from the now Chief Justice In-| connection with the death of Charles ter «tion of his S, it: Tolson, also colored, was sentenced to was that he w serve cight years in the penitentiary. o the Dis delegat rescnta there were some they would not report any bill for full-fledged senators and rep- ives. “I never heard ving anything like enator Ball,” Mr. Clafiin responded. Senator Ball was out of the room at nator Sheppard of Texas; being in the chair. Mr. Claflin continued. He said that the District. Delegate Association, which be represe did not believe that the Jone titutional aménd- ment resolution could be passed at this time. lle favored the delegate bill. Protest From New Citizens. Col. Winfield Jones, chairman of the | wtional Press committee for District | suffrage, placed in the record a letter from Soterios Nicholson, protesting against the disfranchisement of’ nat- lized aliens who come here. He said “there were 25,000 aliens here en- | titled to a vote, and that the alien population was being trained In the Americanization School to exercise | the rieht of a vote. Washinzton Topham, a resident of | Washington for many years, said that | the District was entitled to some form | He said he was for rep- | in Congress, but did not | want u votcless delegate. 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