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Your petitioners, the Citisena’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations be- tween the United States and the Dis- trict of Columbia and the presidents of fts constituent ergamisations, re- spectfully represent: The Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relatione between the United States and District of Columbla, or- ganized in 1915, is now composed of authorized representatives of the Board of Trade, Chamber of Com- merce, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, Federation of Citizens' Assoclations, Committee of One Hun- dred, Builders and Manufacturers’ Exchange, Bar Association, Columbia Helghts Citizens' Association, North- east Citizens' Association, Georgetown Citizens' Assoclation, the City Club, the D. C. Bankers' Assoctation, the Real Estate Board, the Rotary Club the Kiwanis Club, the Civitan Club and the Cosmopolitan Club. ok The platform of principles laid down by the joint committee and ad- hered to in the committee's brief in the hearings before the joint select committee {n 1915, the House District committee In December, 1919, and the Senate appropriations committee in April, 1920, is as follow; We contend: First, that the United States should contribute largely to the expenses of the District. Second, that this contribution should be a fixed and definite proportién. Third, that this proportion should be at least one-half, This platform was modifled by the District's new organic act of 1922, which reaffirmed the principle of defi- nite proportionate contribution by lo- cal community and Nation toward Capital upbuilding, but changed the 50-50 ratio to 60-40, imposing the 60 per cent burden upon the local tax- payers. The committee's platform of prin- ciples, thus modified, was announced by the executive committee of the citizens’ joint committee, October 31, 1923, as follows: ‘We contend: First, that the United Btates should contribute largely to the maintenance and upbuilding of the National Capital. Second, that this contribution should be a fixed and definite proportion. Third, that this proportion should be 60-40, €0 by the District taxpayers and 40 by the United States. * K ok K H. R. bill 473 provides “that on and after July 1, 1924, the government of the United States shall not bear any fixed proportion of the expemses of the District of Columbia, but shall pay the sum of $8,000,000 annually to- ward defraying such expensed of the District as may be appropriated for by law.” This bill thus destroys ut- erly the deflnite proportionate re- Iated plan of Capital contribution, to protect which practically all of organized Washington has united In the Citizens' Joint Committee. This bill (H. R. 473) should be re- Jected for the following reason. the beneficent operation of which the National Capital has wonderfully de- veloped, and which, after seven years of exhaustive investigation and pro- longed discussion, has been vindi- cated by retention In the 1922 law. x % x 2. It destroys the unmrepreseated Capital’s safeguard against excessive and usajust taxatien. The compro- mil law of 1822 coupled with the imposition of new and heavier tax burdens upon the Capital the vitally Important offsetting benefit of re- tention of the principle of definite proportionate contribution, the Dis trict’s safeguard against excessive and unjust taxation by a texing body in which it is not represented. This bill deprives the District of the only teature of the compromise law of 1922 which is clearly adventageous to the people of the Capital. The vital feature of the act of 1922, carried over from the act of 1878, is that it fixes a definite equitable atandard of national participation in Capital making, related to the con- tribution exacted in taxes from the Capital community, and does not leave this standard to the shiftings of caprice. From 1800 to 1874-8 the national and local Capital contributions were indefinite and unrelated. Each con- tributed what it pleased toward Cap- {ital upbuilding. The Nation meas- ured its own obligations in terms of | dollars as next to nothing. The local community raised and disbursed its own taxes at its pleasure. It meas- ured its Capital obligation conside: ably bevond the limits of its meager taxable resources, and twice became practically bankrupt In performiny almost unaided the Nation’s task of Capital building. In 1878 the Nation confessed its violatlon or gross neglect of fits Capital obligation. It gave practical expreesion to its revived sense of this obligation in its undertaking to pay one-half the accumulated funded indebtedness of the District and one- half of future expenses. It took from the District the power of self- taxation and assumed completely ex- ercise of the right to fix the local contribution as well as its own. Im thus exercising tazation without = resentation over the District the nmational oom- the District from excessive taxation by causing a taxgatherer, alien to the unrepresented District, to appro- pricate from his own Treasury for the District's benefit every time he ap- propriated from the District's tax revenue. Every dollar he took under the tax power from the local com- munity increased correspondingly his own Capital contribution. The law of 1922 retains the prin- ciple of definite related Capital con- tributions, in_which the law of 1878 was rooted. That the ratio of this relation was changed from 50-50 to 60-40 did not alter the basic prin- ciple involved. - The pendi Ppropositi destroys tween the national and Petition by the Citizens’ THE EVENING STAR, Preserve the Principle of Proportionate Contribution for the National Capital Joint Committee on Fisecal Relations Between United States and District of Columbia. againat excessive taxation by & tax- ing body in which it is mot repre- sented. * k% ¥ 3. It destroys the fiscal peace met d;:.-tll promised by the mew orgamic a ‘To reise now the issue of a lump- sum payment substitute for definite proportionate contribution by the Na- tion s to reopen the fiscal relations peace settlement of June 29, 1922, and to plunge the House and the old, wearlsome wrangle, 50 hurt- ful to the District, over the issue of definite or indefinite proportionate contribution toward Capital upbuild- ing and over the ratio (50-50 or 60-40) of definite proportionate contribu- tion, The avowed purpose and promised result of the new law was to bring to House and Senate wnd people of the District a period of wholesome and Tefreshing rest from fiscal relations controversy. If the act of 1922 is left for a few years to work out its vindication on {ts merits or its fallure on its demerits this needed rest will be secured. If the old controversy over definite proportionate contribu- tion s to be renewed by compulsory discussion of this bill this rest will be denied, one of the avowed main purposes of the act of 1822 will be defeated and the understanding upon which this compromise legis- lation was based will be flagrantly violated. 4. It teaches m false theory com- gu-nln: the relation of Vuum to It obtrudes annually upon the at- tention of Congress the suggestion of a large cash donation to the Capi- tal, as if the primary obligation of national city upbuilding were upon the local taxpayers, and the Nation were only an incidental contributor, a voluntary and benevolent donor. Since the Nation in 1878 recognized and assumed its National Capital power and obligation, its responsi- bility In respect to the pital hes been primary and dominating. As late as 1916 this relation of Nation to Capital was fully recognized and clearly set forth in the report of the Joint select committee of Congress, which made the most thorough, ex- haustive and able study of the flscal relations of Nation and CIDH-IJ that statesmen had given to the subject since 1874-8. As long all the assets and revenues of the national and locel joint contributors toward Capital upbullding are in the hands of the national joint contributor, and as long as all decislons concerning the amounts to be paid by the joint ocontributors, respectively, and con- cerning the expenditure of the joint revenues ars to be made by the na- tional oontributor, the latter must in equity, and will, in fact, bear the primary responsibility of Capital up- building, and the local taxpayers will be recognized In their true re- lation as merely incidental contrib- utors of tax money, not fixed in amount by themselves, but exacted at the pleasure of the other joint contributor. * K x ¥ 5. It reduces to a minimum or de- stroys any chamce of equitable pro- portionate contribution by the United States {n appropriating and spending the District's accumulated Treasury tax surplus. Another practical effect of destroy- ing the 60-40 ratio will be to reduce to a minimum any chance of equi- table proportionate contribution by the United States when our accu- mulated tax surplus comes to be ex- pended. This tax money was col- ed by authority of the haelf-and- t law solely to apply upon the District's half of District appropria- tions. Whenever it is expended it would be equitable to spend it under the half-and-half law, the United Btates duplicating it. If when the surplus comes to be used the pro- portionate contributions are on the 60-40 ratio, the Natlon, through Congress, will either apply, as equity seems to demand, the 50-50 ratio or will make the existing 60-40 ratio retroactive and add to the District's urplus only 40 per cent from the national Treasury. But if both the 50-50 and “the 60-40 ratios are de- stroyed, and when the surplus comes to be expended there is no definite proportionate contribution by Nation and taxpaying Capital, then the Orange Grove 75 Oranges with basket, §1 Grape Fruit, 3, 4, 5...25c Winesap Apples, 6 lbs., 25¢ 712 9th St. NW. NEW FUUD SAVES TIME New Oata is a Real Improve ment on Oats For years women have wanted a new hot cereal. A dish with the real nour ishment of oats and with an even bet ter flavor. This is New Oata. The fira! nnl improvement on oats in fifty 'he most flavorous, satisfying bruklut you ever tasted. You just take New Oata, heat it three minute: in boiling water before serving, and presto — the most delicious of ho cereals for cool mornings! New Oata is a blend—a blend of two of mature’s most favored grains. The xdfhn"loh have :iku the keen relish of oats, uisite goodness ctfl-t.udn uflmumm flavor—s ‘There’s another wonderfnl thing about New Oata. It mever gets that soggy, mushy body that you find i or oatmeal. New Oata is alway light, always delicious, always perfec in texture. Your grocer has New Oata. Try : package today. L/ NEW OATA Ready cooked forgou chances are 100 to 1 that the Nation will not participate at all under any percentage of obligation to enlarge the surplus fund for the upbulilding of the Capital. ' * ok kK 6. There are no offsetting beme- s te the injuries imflicted by the Bl Broadly, Washington is tempted to surrender its safeguard of national rroportionate contribution by the as- surance that through a lump-sum payment system the Capital will escape the tender mercles of the budget bureau and will win the privilege, not of texing {tself with- out restraint, but of belng taxed by Congress without limit for the up- bullding of the Natfon's city. It 1s suggested that there will be immunity from _Budget Bureau cutting down of Umcle Sam's Capl- tal upbuilding outlay if the ex- penditures are madg in a lump sum instead of as & proportionate part of the District’s total municipal ap- propriation. But if Uncle Sam is compelled by any year's flscal comditions to cut down all of his expenditures, in- cluding his outlay on National Cap- ital upbullding, he will obviously make this retrenchment whether in order to do it he reduces a lump sum_contribution or holds down the total District outlay, of which he pays a proportionate part. Indeed, it 1s easier to make this direct spe- cific reduction, than indirectly by cutting and mutilating the District appropriations. = There is greater fixity to the definite proportionate contribution than to that of a lump sum. It is far easier for those who think that the Natlon should pay nothing today toward Capitel malin- tenance and development to reduce or deny entirely the annual lump Get The Bus Riding Habit on the RED'STAR'BUS PH"—ADELPHIA With Stops at Baltimore and Wilmington Leaving Willard Hotel and Capitol Park Hotel 3 :30 am. Ev-ry Day p-m. Washi to Phi ::fl:: &P Ih‘alnhll lfi.‘ IRBIvipt. m\h“\ll“ 1formati and Red Star o'E:‘ - Phone Maln 1975 Ot 3y RED STAR I-lfll.hn. WASHINGTON, D, C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928. sum than to change the ratio of|petitiomers earmestly wrge the rejec-] HERBERT L. DAVIS, proportionate contribution. This bill will not cause the District to escape s and national con- tribution cutting by the Budget Bu- Teau. It does mot increase the oer- tainty of s natlomal contribution or fixity fn the amount of such contribm- tion. It does not avold friction-breed- ing rasio discussion, but om the oom- trary aggravates fl- It does not wmfin«amm-wmw ture. Congress still has exolusive po'urmdmrmhu how much it shall be taxsd, and by whom and for what purposes its tax money shall be ex- pended. ¥ ¥ k% 7. This ®ill ix jug-handled, ome- sided, l.l'lll' lt gives back to the Na- tion 1 power of welf- t-uuon without rextoting to the Dis- trict thiw self-taxing power of which it had bewn deprived. Its practical ef- and to remove the contributie: payers. Indeed, the announced purpose of the propsed legislation s to enable a taxing body in which the District is not represented to increase the local burden of taxation at its pleasure un- checked by the existing requirement that every such increase be reflected in some measure in natiomal taxation for Capltal upbullding. The maximum national contribution is made definite during the time in which Congress refrains from dimin- ishing it; but all limits are declared off in respect to the local contribution, and it remains definite only in the certainty that the local tax burden will be largely increased, and that the local taxpayers will not partici- pate at any time in the decision of the emount of the increase, the methods of taxatlon by which the in- crease is secured and the purposes for which the tax money is spent. For the reasons above atated your silver,gold and nickelshine like new, with a lasting luster. Buyacan today at your grocer,hardware, druggst or Auto tion by Congress of H. R. 473, i THEODORE W. NOYES, Chatrman Executive Committee of Ottizems’ Joint Committee on Dis- trict of Columbia Fiscal Relations; E. F. COLLADAY, President Board of Trade; ISAAC GANS, President Chamber of Commerce; ANTON STEPHAN, President Merchants and turers’ Associatien; CHARLES A. 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