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TWO SENATORS ASK ARCHIVES BUILDING Fess and Smoot Stress Fire Hazard in Plea to Safe- guard Records. —_— A record of the many fires that have eccurred on Government property in the last half century was cited by Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio, to show the necessity for an Archives Buflding, during debate on the public bulldings bill in the Senate yesterday afternoon. Senator Fess said there are 10 States in each of which a fireproof bullaing separate from the State Capitol has been erected for the protection of im- portant records relating to the history of the State. Senator Norris of Nebraska said he recalled that when he was a member of the House 20 years ago there was 2 movement to establish an Archives Building to save valuable records from the danger of fire, and that a tract of land was bought, but was used years afterward for the new Interior Bulld- tng. The Senator from Nebraska took the view there will always be danger of public documents being destroyed by fire, and that this is not the proper tme, In view of efforts to economize, to start a new movement for an Archives Building. Hazard Called Greater. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman e* the Public Buildings Commission, de clared the fire hazard to Government records has increased a hundredfold in recent vears. As an example, he told of the keeping of income tax re- turns in one of the temporary war bulldings. If those returns should go up in smoke they could not be re- placed, Senator Smoot asserted. “But what I am more interested in now than anvthing elese,” Senator Smoot continued, “is to get the em- ploves in the Distriot of Columbla, as ‘well as the records, out of these tem- porary buildings, In many cases these are now nearly falling down.” Senator Smoot said a fireproof build- ing, in which to preserve valuable old documents of the Government, is need- ed not only for protection from flames. but also to save them from the rav nges of dampness. In the basement of the Capitol Building, he said, there are valuable records, which, when brought out into the light of day for reference, disintegrate. On one occa- sion, the Senator sald, he tried to con- sult one of the old volumes stored in the basement, and the pages crumbled before he could turn them. Other Buildings Discussed. Following this discussion of the local situation, the session vesterday after- noon was taken up by speeches by Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Senator Mayfield of Texas, both Demo- crats, in opposition to that part of the bill relating to public bulldings for the country as a whole. Senator Robinson leveled his crit- jeism at the proposal to give the Secretary of the Treasury discre- tionary power in deciding when and where structures should be erected out o1 the $100.000,000 to be spent outside of Washington. Senator Rob- inson also contended that the lan- guage of the bill directing the Treas- ury Department to complete build- ings authorized in 1913 is not clear. Senator Mayfield opposed the bill on the ground that Congress is abdi- cating power conferred upon it by the Constitution by allowing the Treasury Department to pass upon the location of public buildings. Favoritism Is Suggested. Senator Robinson also attacked the Bill on the theory that favoritism and political influence would enter into the location of bulldings if discre- tionary power is left to the Treasury Department. Senator Lenroot, Republican, of ‘Wisconsin, defended the measure, declaring there are only two ques- tions involved—economy and effl- ciency in Government. Congress, he said, either must accept this bill or return to the old “pork barrel” type of legislation. In calling up the buildings bill yesterday, Senator Fernald of Maine, in charge of the measure, announced his intention of keeping it before the Senate until it is disposed of. The bill has already passed the House. SLAYING OF THREE NOW LAID TO BEER ! FIGHT IN CHICAGO (Continued from First Page.) might be traced. The Thompson ma- machine gun weighs 8 pounds. Police Sergt. Anthony McSwiggin, father of the slain prosecutor, has | sworn vengeance. The ambition of his life, he said, was to see his son take his place in thwarting criminals. “I though my lifework was over,” the father declared, “but it's just begun. I won’t rest until I've killed my boy’s slayers or have seen them hanged.” Frank Blazek, voung policeman, died today from pistol wounds and a| beating mysteriously administered last | night. He was found unconscious in @ police department automobile a few minutes after he had made a report to headquarters. Other policemen said they thought Blazek had arrested a man who then attacked him. Three Are Arres Police raiders seeking ‘“Bcarface” Caponi, arrested his brother Ralph, the latter's wife and Charles Fishittl in Ralph’'s apartment. They selzed a quantity of arms and ammunition, a catalogue listing a machine gun and a book of instructions for operating such a gun. The discovery of the catalogue and the instruction book were considered important by the police. Seven re- volvers, two pistols and four shotguns also were found. “Scarface” had left the apartment before the raid, detectives said. Coroner Wolff made public the in- quest arrangements, which indicated taking of testimony would not be started before tomorrow. No witnesses have been summoned. The jury was called to assemble this afternoon, go to the homes of the slain men, hear famlily histories and issue burial permits. Later . they might visit the scene of the assassina- tions. ey BIG WHISKY SHIPMENT. 2,100 Cases Leave Louisville for Coast Drug Firm. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 29 (#).— Ome of the most valuable cargoes since the advent of prohibition left Loul: ville last night destined for the Pa- cific Coast. The freight shipment con- tained 2,100 cases of Old Forrester whisky, consigned to four wholesale drug firms on the coast. The value of the cargo at medicinal prices was quoted at $115,000, but at bootleg prices would probably treble that sum. During the process of loading, suards armed with sawed-off shot- guns patrolled the warehouse and cars in which it was loaded. Restoration of France's war-ridden area 18 requiring so much lumber that |p,. it is threateping the recovery of the French fo'efim ot THE EVENING Washington’s Petition to Congress for National Representation To the Congress of the United States: Your petitioners, the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Columbia, and the presidents of its constituent and co-operating organizations, whose names are subscribed below, hereby reaffirm the principles previously announced by the founders of our republic that “Taxation without representation is tyranny”; that “Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed”; and in order that “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” may become an accomplished fact for ALL the people of the United States, respectfully represent: That nearly one-half million totally disfranchised people of the District of Columbia, who obey national laws, pay more na- tional taxes than many of the States; who oversubscribed every war-time fund—including the Red Cross and all Liberty bond issues; who supplied to the Army and Navy of the United States | nearly 18,000 men in the World War—a larger number than any one of seven of the States—and who aré now living under an anomalous condition in which they have no voice in the National Government, are entitled to representation in Congress and in the Electoral College, with access to the Federal courts upon the same terms as those enjoyed by other citizens of the Republic. We, therefore, respectfully petition the adoption of S. J. R. 7 and H. J. R. 208, proposing in identical terms a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to grant to residents of the District of Columbia representation in House, Senate and Elec- toral College with the same rights before the Federal Courts as are enjoyed by the residents of the States; and in support of this petition we submit the appended argument: THEODORE W. NOYES, chairman Citizens’ Joint Committee on District of Columbia National Representation. J. HARRY CUNNINGHAM, president Board of Trade. M. A. LEESE, president Chamber of Commerce. JESSE C. SUTER, president Federation of Citizens’ Associations. MRS. GEORGE ALFRED RICKER, president D. C. League of Women Voters. CLARENCE COOPER, president Central Labor Union. R. P. ANDREWS, president Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association. DORSEY W. HYDE, JR, president Monday Eve- ning Club. JNO. LEWIS SMITH, president Bar Association. ANTON STEPHAN, president City Club. THEODORE W, NOYES, president Association of Oldest Inhabitants. WILLIAM McK. CLAYTON, president District Delegate Association. EVAN H. TUCKER, president Northeast Washing- ton Citizens’ Association. CLARENCE F. DONOHOE, president Washington Real Estate Board. J. O. MARTIN, president Advertising Club of Washington. MRS. BURNITA SHELTON MATTHEWS, presi- dent Woman’s Bar Association. MRS. GERTRUDE M. STEVENS, president Twen- tieth Century Club. ¢ DR. A. FRANCES FOYE, president Women'’s City Club. MRS. VIRGINIA WHITE SPEEL, president Fed- eration of Women’s Clubs. ANNA E. HENDLEY, president Anthony League. now Susan B. Anthony Foundation. CHARLES M. EMMONS, M. D., president East Washington Citizens’ Association. DAVID SANGER, president Associated Retail Credit Men of Washington, D. C. O. A. C. OEHMLER, president Washington Florist Club. Americanize the Washingtonian by Grant of Voting Representation in House, Senate and Electoral College. ARGUMENT:— The half million Americans of the District of Columbia constitute the only community in all the expanse of the continental United States—popu- lous, intelligent, public spirited, of adequate resources—which is denied representation in the national gov- ernment. National representation is a distinc- tive basic right of the American citi- zen—in a government of the people, by the people, for the noo le—in government which roots its justice in consent of the governed—in a repre- sentative ronrnmernt which insepa- rably couples taxation and arms-bear- lns as a soldier with ntation. ince the half million Americans of the District pay national taxes, obey natlonal laws, and go to war in the Natlon’s defense, they are entitled on merican principles to be represented in the national government which taxes them, which makes all laws for them, and which sends them to war. In recognition and reaffirmation of the above- American principle we urge most earnestly the approval Congress of House Joint lu- tion No. 208 and Senate Joint Resolu- tion No. 7, proposing in identical terms a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to grant rep- resentation in “m:& Senate and elec- toral college to residents of the Dis- trict of Columbla, P ‘We propose amendment of the Con- stitution of the United States by iIn- serting at the end of section 3, Article IV, the following words: *““The Congress shall have power to by Ar- ticle 1, section 8, the purpose of ntation in the Congress and among_the electors of President and Vice President, and for the purpose of sulng and being sued in the courts of the United States under the pro- visions of Article III, section 2. “When the. Congress shall exerclse this power the residents of such Dis- trict shall be entitled to elect one or nators, as determined by the Congr! representatives in e House, according to their numbers as determined by the decennial enumera- tion, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggregate repre- sentation in the House and Senate. “The Congress shall provide by la the qualification of voter: time and manner of cho ator or senators, the representative or representatives and the electors here- uthorized. ‘he Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be neces- sary and groper for carrying into execution the foregoing power.” L ‘We urge with confidence the ap- proval by Congress of this amend- ment for these reasons: First. Because we ask at this time merely that Congress shall be given a new constitutional power, without committing Congress as to when or w it shall exercise this power. We ask two-thirds of Congress to vote to &ive & majority of Congress a mew |fully fit for - > Th el th power which harmonizes with and equitably rounds out the existing con- stitutional powers of Congress. No £00d reason can be assigned why Con- gress should not unanimously ap- prove this proposal to enlarge on logi- cal, wholesome lines its own powers. Second. Because Congress, | when In the future it shall exercise this power, will deservedly bestow upon the Americans of the District the highest privilege, right and power of American national citizenship and will relieve the nation of the shame of un-American, totally nonrepresenta- tive government in the Capital clty under the nation's exclusive control, without disturbing in the least that exclusive control: without creating a new state; without altering the form of local municipal government, and without the surrender by Congress ot a single power in respect to the Capi- tal which it now pos es. The Constitution, as it stands, either Congress to give gives or empowers :'5"’&" l"lalr nuuo‘n t‘a,tha states nd the territory, or inciplent stat in fact to the whole ar . o public, except the seat of of Congress to grant national rep: ::g::dtlondwllltbearo;ndad out and per- and extended to eve: the republic. i e District with its half milllon Americans, ntelligent, public spirited, patriotic, 1S not merely the only area in the contiguous and continental United Btates which {3 without natlonal rep- resentation and which does not par- e in the national government. It is also the only area In the whole expanse of the republie to which Con- grete eammot extend the right of na- tional representation. This amendment corrects Congress’ lack of power. It does not correct the Distriot’s lack of pow. It empowers Congress to grant this natifonal rep- resentation, and does not direct it or fix any time limitation within which the power must be exercised. * sk Why should any congressman vote agalnst giving Congress this new power? The power asked is not to commit a crime or a misdemeanor or to do an injury, but to extend an equitable American right, and to har- monize and reconcile two great Amer|- can principles—Afrst, the principle that in our representative republic, subject to limitations and conditions uni- formly applied, all national Americans O\Ifh( to have the opportunity to par- ticipate in the national government which taxes them, makes laws for them, and sends them and their sons to war, and second, the principle lald down by the forefathers as a national necessity that the natlon through Congress should have exclusive con- trol of the Nation's Capital. ‘We think we can convince you that the District of today, with its half mil- lion Americans, is in resources, popu- 1ation, intelligence and patriotic Amer- fcanism, so well equipped that if Con- gress had now the power which we ask for it to grant District national representation, it could safely and wisely exercise that power at onoe. But assuming that there a me senators or some representati ‘:’oo are not yet convinced, who ar t ntirely satisfied that in resources and in population the Distriet is today nal representation, \ STAR, WASHINGTO Ithey ought not on that account to vote against our amendment, for it s to be noted that they are not asked in voting for the amendment to de- clare that the District Is now fit for such representation, but only that power themselve t such representation when figan-nz the District has become thus And so/we say that to deny or vote against our amendment is to declare not merely that the District is not now fit for representation, but that the defective and delinquent residents of the District will never become thus fitted, though the District multiply its resources and a population of & mil- lion or more be collected in it. To vote for this amendment com- mits Congress to nothing. To vote against this amendment is a denial of the possibility of District representa- {tion, even though the District attain the resources and population and the {other requisites of statehood which make it surpass a dozen of the states. So even those who doubt whether the District will ever be fit for na tional representation should not vote again: his amendment. Glve the Dis- trict a sporting, fighting, American chance at national representation. In our republic majorities govern. Amend the Constitution so that a m: {orltv of Congress may, If it wishes, n the future, when it is convinced of the fitness of the District, glve n. tional representation to District resi- dents. Give the people of the seat of government the same possibility of national representation that Hawall and Alaska now possess. Why should any senator ur repre- sentative vote against an awendment which m power of Congres: jome lines, and which simply empowers Congress to remedy a po- litical Inequity whenever, if ever, it 1s disposed to do so? Why should Con- Sress oppose the grant’ to itgel? of any new constitutional power with which those affected are ready to trust it? Surely Congress does not mistrust itself. * % % ¥ ‘We seek national representation as a distinctive basic right of the Ameri- can citlzen—in a government of the people, by the people, for the people— in a_government which roots its jus- tice In consent of the governed—in a representative government which in- separably couples taxation and arms- :»lurln: as a soldier with representa- on. 8o far as we half million residents of the District are concerned, the American government-is not a govern. ment of all the people, by all the peo- ple. It is a government of all the people by a part of the people.” The al? miflion ~District residents are among the peop'e who are governed, but not among the people who govern. The half million Americans of the District do not give their consent to thelr ‘national government through elected representatives in accordance with American principles like «li other Americans of the continental and con- tiguous United States. In respect to the half million Amer- fcans of ‘the District, representation is divorced from taxation and soldler service, We bear ail the nitional bur- dens of citizens of a state in national taxes, in subjection to national laws and as national soldiers sent to war. In genuine representative government, ts and obligations are inseparably wedded. We meet fully the natlonal obligation. We bear cheerfully our share of the national burden. Ve are entitled to all vital national rights and privileges. * % ¥ ¥ We are meeting the same national obligation as Americans who are citi- zens of a state. In the recent days of exalted Ameri- canism Washingtonians were in the front rank of devoted Americans. They have ever been foremost when Amerl. canism meant loss Instead of benefit, when to be Americans meant to place both sacrifice of treasure and blood sacrifice upon the Nation’s altar. ‘Washingtonians have paid their pro- portion of every national tax, direct or indirect, from the birth of the Na- tion. The only national taxes that fall directly and in ascertalnable amounts upon the Americans are the internal revenue taxes, including the excise and income taxes. In total con- tribution in 1919 to these taxes Wash- ington contributed $18,645,043, ex- ceeding fifteen of the states, though it exceeded in population only seven of them. contribution was greater of five of the states com- Washingtonians have risked life and shed their blood in every national war. To preserve the Union the first vol- unteers came from ths Capltal, and Washingtonians supplied a greater percentage of troops in excess of their quota than nearly every state in the Union. In the war with Spain they sent to Cuba a fine regiment, exceed- ing their quota in numbers. The same response was made when the sum- mons to the Mexican border came. At that time the percentage of men of military age enrolled in the Organized Militla was greater in_ the District than in any state of the Union. Wash- ington sent more soldiers to the bor- der than twenty-two of the states. In the world war no other American community responded more enthusias- tically and effectively to the call to arms and universal service. They were eager volunteers of money for war through the Red Cross and other agencles, and of personal service through 'enlistment in_ Army, Navy, Natlonal Guard or Home Defense League. They showed patriotic readi- d |ness to bear the burden of conscrip- tion, whether in the shape of taxes imposed on lines which caused the District of Columbia to contribute more than any one of fifteen of the Intevesting palaces and ca- thedrals! Wonderful art galleries and museums! Countless places replets with history and tradition. new trans-atlantie service—big, fast, modern Cabin TOURIST CABIN THIRD CABIN w3150 $100 Carmania May 8 Tuscania May 14 Bay Seinaisie . Write Dept. C-47 for descrip- tive literature. Ask abowt Cumard Traveller's Choques CUNARD ano ANCHOR uines 1406 H St. N.W., Wash,, D. C. or Local Agents D. C, THURSDAY. APRIL 2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Following 1s the text of Senate Joint Resolution 7, and House of Representatives Joint Resolution 208, Sixty-ninth Congress, proposing the amendment of the Constitution of the United States by inserting at the end of section 3, Article 1V, the following words: The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of State the residents of the District conatituting the seat of the Govern. ment of the United States, created by Article L section 8, for the purpose of representation in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice President, and for the purpose of suing and being sued in the courts of the United States under the provisions of Article 111, section 2. When the Congress shall exercise this power the residents of such District shall be entitled to elect one or two Senators, as determined by the Congress, Representatives in the House, according to their num- bers as determined by the decennial onumeration, presidential electors ual fn number to thelr aggrega: representation in the House and Senate, ‘The Congress shall provide by law the qualification of voters and the time amd manmer of choosing the Senator or Semators, the Representa- tive or Representatives, and the electors herein authorized. The Congress shall have power te make al! laws which shall be meces- sary and proper for carrying into ex- ecution the foregoing power. —————— and more than five of the combined; or in the shape of universa' personal service and the selective draft. In the war with Germany the Dis- trict of Columbia has made a record of which the Nation should be proud. The total voluntary enlistments in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps for the District was 8,314, a number greater than that in elght states, viz., Nevad: Delaware, Arizona, Wyoming, Ver- mont, New Mexico and New Hamp- shire, and only a trifie less than three other states. The number of men in. ducted into the Army under firat and second registrations w 631, making a total of voluntary enlis ments and inductions into the service of the government of 17,945. In other words, the percentage of voluntary enlistments was 46.33 per cent of the total inductions into the service. The proportion which the voluntary enlistments bear to the total number of enlistments and inductions by way of registration was greater for the District of Columbla than for every state of the Unlon except Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, Califo: nia and Maine, and more than one third greater than the percentage for the country as a whole. To every demand of devotion and self-sacrifice _made upon Americans Washington has rendered, is rende ing, and will always render full, hearty and unstinted response. * kKK In notable particulars we are de- prived of the rights and privileges of Americans who are citizens of a State. As a suitor in the courts of the United States the District resident has, the Supreme Court says, a lower standing than an alien. In r!l‘lllnn to national laws the sole function of the District residents is to obey. They take no part in making the laws which they must obey. In relation to national taxes their sole function is to pay. They have nothing to say, like other taxpayers, concerning the amount and kind of taxes they shall pay and how the tax money shall be spent. In relation to national war their sole function is to fight in obedience to command. They have no voice, like other Americans, in the councils which determine war or peace. They have no representation in the govern- ment which requires them to fight, bleed, and perhaps to die. Since the half million Americans of the District pay national taxes, obey national laws and go to war in the Nation's defense, they are entitled on American principles to be represent- ed in the national government which taxes them, which makes all laws for them and which sends them to war. % The favorable report of the Senate District committee admirably asum- marizes the characteristics of ow proposed amendment when it says: “Summarizing, we find and report: “The proposed constitutional amena- ment does not reduce the power of Congress in respect to the Capital, but adds a new power; it does not propose the admission of the District into the Union as a sovereign stat Serving it makes great chefs greater RREAKFAST Ronsted RIGHT here in Washington Guaranteei Satisfaction YOUR PHONE IS AT HAND! 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It plans to bestow upon the half million’ Americans of the District a basic right of the Ameri- overnment of the people by the people for the people— in a government which roots its jus- tice in consent of the governed—in a representative government which in- separably couples taxation and arms- blearlng as a soldier with representa- ‘This distinctive American privilege decorates the American with a badge of honor and arms_him with power. Its lack slurs the Washingtonian unfit and defective, and slurs the Na- tion as In this respect un-American and fmpotent. “What the endment proposes is equitable in itself and compulsory in sccordance with American principles nd traditions. “It gives to idents of the District rights and privileges which, under our ‘heme of government, belong to all who pay national taxes and fight as national soldiers. “It gives to residents of the District a self-protecting power in the na- tional councils which is denled to the resident of no other community in all of the mainland and contiguous United States from Maine to Texas access to the fed- s Distriot residents from a lower plane than that of to the status of citizens of a 3 “National representation of the Di trict will remove from the Nation the shame of impotency. “It will proclaim to the world that the great republic is devoted to the principles of representative gov- ernment and as capable of enforcing them as other republics with capitals in nation-controlled _districts, like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. 'These nations have not found themselve impotent to give full national repr gentation to the people of their capi- tals. “It will proclaim to the world that the people of Washington are as it to participate in national representative government as the people of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Washington will cease to be the only capital In all the world whose people, slurred as tainted or defective, are unworthy to enjoy the same national representation as that enjoyed by all other cities of the Na- 1 Pay for One CoatorDress --Get One event. <l ; T 8 ; ] i H i § § g : g P § i Or etc. street wear, ors and sizes up to 48. There’ll be an immense crowd for them - Come Early for Best Selections! HURRY1! tional privileges well as to bear national burdens is denled. “National representation will clothe the Washingtonian with vital American privi denlably clean: of un-Americanism; political impotency, with a certain power. “It will igma and stain and, curing his will arm him Natlon of the nism at its heart nd of impotency to cure this evil. “It will inflict no injury or hardship upon either Nation or Capital to counteract these berefits.” CAPT. WILKINS SAFE AT POINT BARROW; RADIO HAD FAILED (Continued from First Page.) Josephine Ford, will be reassembled and, granted favorable weather, will make trial flights. The actual flight to t*e Pole might possibly be made within a week after the arrival, but Comdr. Byrd, who Is more interested in achieving his ob- Jectives than in the mere question of a few days' priority, will not take off until satisfled that every detail is in perfect order, no matter what Capt. Amundsen’s party may do. Comdr. 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It was pointed out by Charles Moore, chairman of the commission, that it is the desire of the body to provide a pole which the merchants and others will purchase and which they will be able to keep in a satisfac- tory condition for use at all times. Mr. Moore said that the American Legion and Veterans of Forelgn Wars were working together with the com- mission on this type of pole. Discuss Loading Platforms. Maj. W. E. R. Covell, Assistant Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict, in charge of public utilities, dis- cussed with the commission designs for the loading platforms to be placed adjacent to the car tracks on Con- necticut avenue between K street and Dupont Circle. 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