Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 3

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Representatives . elected last November, to approve the pro- constitutional amendment ta inhabitants of * the Vice president of the chairman of on the joint committee. Mr. vice chairman of the joint ‘committee, former president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations and first chair- man of .the Citizens’. Advisory. Council. Other Programs Arranged. mfl %mz{‘“ programs .;ul: been arrange Citizens’ Joint Com- mittee for !{-uonn Re] tation with the National Broadt Co, for radio 4 Apartment Offerings Today DAVENPORT TERRACE 4800 Block Connecticut Ave. High, cool and healthful. Low- est rents in this highly desirable section. 845 for one room, kitchen, bath $60 for two rooms, kitchen, bath $80 for three rooms, kitchen, bath Frigidaire Is Included in the Rent SCHUYLER ARMS 1954 Columbia Rd. oom and bath to 4 rooms and 1 r § bath, porch, Frigidaire. Apply Resident Manager, Pot. 133, 2401 CALVERT ST. N.W. -outside apts. with very nd closets. 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LOWING CARS ARE TO BE es at Weschler's public_ auetion . May 4: Ford truck. B-9095, left by Heme Decorating Co.: Ford coupe, ture People's N-2375. left by George E. Bookhaltz: Ford Col Clarence DeVeile. a talks over WRC. -~ The other programs are scheduled as follows: O TOW night, 8:30 ‘to 9 o'clock; Thursday, April 25, 8 to 8:30 o'clock, and Satur- day. April 27, 8:30 to 9 o'clock. ‘The speakers tomorrow night will be the Voteless D. C. League of Women Voters, and Henry H. Glassie, special assistant to the Attorney General. - Mr. Lesh explained in his talk last night that the people of Washington are “‘more directly interested in-the new Congress than any other group of peo- ple in the Nation,” 'since Congress is the governing body for this city. “And in that Congress,” he continued, “we alone of all the people in Conti- nental United States are not -repre- sented.” Mr: Suter told what has been done in an attempt to remedy the voteless state of the people of Washington, ex- plaining in detail the proposed comstl. tutional amendment, the campaigns of the past and the plans for the future of the ‘Citizens’ Joint Committee for National Representation. 2 The amendment, explained Mr. Suter, would “admit to the status of eitizens of a State the- residents of the District” for the sole purpose of voting repre- sentation in Congress and the electoral college -and would give the District a status in the Federal courts. It @oes not propose to give the District state- hood, he said. Mr. Lesh's speech in part follows: “I am speaking on behalf of the citi- zzas’ joint committee on national repre- sentation for the District of Columbia, and this is one of a series of talks g:nned as a greeting to the Seventy- t Congress. % ““We of the District are more direct- ly interested in the new Congress than any other group of people in the Nation. “The normal American city has a municipal government for its - strictly local affairs, a_State government and a Federal government. We of this Dis- trict have’ all legislative -power for. all three kinds of government in one body, the Congress of the United States. “And in that Congress, we alone of all the people in continental United States are not represented. “We are advocating representation according to our numbers in the House and the Senate, and among the electors of the President and Vice President. Proposal Explained. “Practically no one ‘who understands our proposal is against it. Those who actively oppose us assume without knowing the facts that we are in” some way trying to take the control of Wash- ington away from the national Gov- ernment. They have a horrible mental picture of the Nation’s Capital being governed by a petty legisiature -com- posed of . persons. elected in small geo- graphical subdivisions of the city. They forget that we are proposing only the election of Representatives and Sen- k. |ators from & constituency as large as y | many ‘and as intelligent -as any of the States, and that we propose to -leave the government of the District precise- E | ly where it is, in the hands of Con- h tgress, in which, however, we will be represented. ~It is not oppesition, however, that we have to fight. It is lethargy. “This is not.surprising, because we are just the same kind of people who inhabit the t of the United States. ‘The persons who should be the lead- ers in many communities are indifferent about the vote. The who L | vote in most elections is so small as to be alarming. The people of the Dis- GNNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS ‘ashingion Permanent Building_ Association. formerly Washington Six Per Cent Perma- nent Building Association. will be held st the office. No_ 629 F st. n.w.. May Ist. 1920. at 3:30 pm. for election of officers and @ireciors. 'Polls open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. HERMANN H. BERGMANN. Secretary. H. SPRING GOLF MEMBERSHIP _INDIAN RING Club for sale at a real reduction. Georgia | 714 _after 6 p.m. PAPERHANGING_ROOMS. 33 have the paper: new samples. 6017 or Col. 35! ANTED =To haul van loads of furniture to or. from 0 New York, Phila. Boston, Richmond an Doints South. Smith’s Transfer & Stora%e Co.,! _ 1313 You St. North_3343. 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P e o trict, who are only a cross-section some- what above thie average of the people of the United States, have among their number those superior persons who would not érigage in politics, those busy perwm‘whn have n:t A m?nd thm ignorant persons whom politics wot be better without, but this is no more true of the District than it is of the rest of the Nation, “If -you, despite the indifference of some of our voters and the incompe- tence of others, nevertheless believe in the Ameriean principle of representative self-government, then you must believe in national representation for the Dis- trict of Columbia. - -- - R “No other ‘self-governing Nation finds t to maintain a tyranny at the capital of the nasfon. - -- = “For example, we-are accustomed to Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president of | prive residents of its capital, Mexico City, of their representatives, according to population, in their national govern- ment. Mexico City is a part of the Mexican nation. Compared With South America. “So with our sister republics in South America. = Buenos Air B LT an who was actively engaged | etting out the vote of persons who & in-the District, but could claim a ' dence elsewhere, was. that there arc people_here who could claim a in the States. No one supposes ' more than 20,000 actually attempt ' . Taking 50,000 as the probable | re of those who might claim a vote | elsewhere, this is less than 10 per cent | of our population. It is certainly no substantial excuse for, depriving the Test of us of a vote. Bulk Can’t Vote Anywhere, “Even if we all had votes scattered around through the States, that would ite for reépresentatives in Congress responsible to us, but that is an- other story, too long to discuss here, and is'immaterial because the great bulk of us have no vote anywhere. & persons are rather indifferent i about this because they feel that among | will the 435 Representatives in the House, our two Representatives, for we would be not quite entitled to three accord- ing to population, will have no voice or control worth the effort, and that our.one Senator or two Senators among the 96 others will exercise a negligible influence, and so with ths three or four presidential electors to whom we would be entitled. ‘It is a part of the job of those of vs who believe in self-government by =il of the people for all of the people to convin ¢ such persons of their er- ror. I know of no. better way than to ask & man who entertains such a view it he thinks that Virginia would be willing to give up her representation in the National Government on the ground that she has only 10 members of the House of Representatives and that her interests may as well be looked out for by North Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland. . Any State or political sub- division could be singled out, and it can be said that it alone has no control of the National Government. And this is as it should be. The National Gov- ernment should be the composite voice of all the people, but this is no reason | for omitting a substantial part of the people. on the ground that the re- mainder constitute almost the whole. “If the question is asked, why the principle of self-government in national affairs, applied to the balance of con- tinental United States, should be ap- plied to the District of Columbia, the answer is that the question is wrong. The appropriate question is—why not? ‘What reasons are there against it? “Then it usually occurs to some one to ask why, if the District of Columbia should be represented in the councils of the NMation, was it not so provided m t?h: beginning and in the Consti- ' Answer Is Simple. “A simple enough answer is found in a consideration of the facts. “In the beginning, so to speak, that is, at the time the District of Colum- bl was carved out of Maryland and Virginia,' there were comparatively no residents of this district. It was not until about 1870 that the population of the District was as large as that of a congressional district. Until then, we were not numerically entitled to a Representative in the House. Then there was the theory that United States Sénators were the ambassadors of the States, and they were elected by the State legislatures. We had no legis- lature, and, therefore, no machinery to elect a Senator. Now, by amendment of the Constitution, Senators are elect- ed by the people. It is, therefore, now, but was not until recently, practicable to elect Senators here. “Furthermore, when the Constitution was adopted, it was uncertain that the District would be as large as it is. The provision was ‘not more than 10 miles square.’ -Under this provision an area] 1 mile square in which to place the Cap- itol and Executive Mansion and house the Supreme Court might have been set up. “It is not surprising, therefore, that! the framers of the Constitution failed to provide for that future time when the District of Columbia should be a political subkdivision, containing more people than any one of seven of the sovereign States of the United States, and when, by changes in the other ma- chinery of our Government it should become as convenient and logical to elect Representatives and Senators for the mih in the District of Columbia as for the people in the several Stated. ‘There was not a syllable uttered by any of the founders of our Government in- consistent withr anything for which we are seeking, and much was said to in- dicate that there was no thought of depriving citizens who should reside within this Federal District of any of the ordinary incidents'of American citi- zenship. . Population Exceeds Seven States. . “T referred a moment ago to the fact that the population of the District of Co- lumbia now exceeds that of seven States. They are: Nevada, with only 77,000 people in 1920; Wyoming, with 194,000; Arizona, ' with 333,000, New Mexico, with 260,000, and Idaho, with 431,000; and settled Eastern States such as Delaware, with 223,000, and Vermont, with 352,000.- In the 10 years from 1910 to 1920, Vermont fell back from 355,000 to 352,000; Delaware gained only from 202,000 to 223,000; whereas the District of Columbia gained from 331,000 to -437,000. And in addition to ese, New Hampshire in ‘1920 had only having gained 13,000 in 10 years, It seems very clear that in the 1930 census, we shall exceed the pop- 'S Not only do we o!pt..l{e District pay our share, according to population, it we y enormously e 8| i Paul E, Lesh (left) and Jesse C. Suter, who last of talks over station WRC on “National Representati Columbia.” wherein our proposal infringes that pur- pose is impossible.” One may say, ‘We not set' up a State here,’ but we do not ask the status of citizens of a State, except on national elections. hit inaugurated a series for the District ¢’ under article I, section 8, of the Consti- tution, but simply empowers Congress to admit to the status of citizens of a State our District eitizens, as already mentioned, for ?::lo sole purposs of such n. One may say, ‘When these people came | yoting here they knew they would lose their vote’; but aside from the fact that this is not generally true, this advance knowledge does not make a wrong system right. g “If it were true, as is sometimes said, that ths, people of the District who would be tne voting population are in- different to the vote, then the situation would be bad indeed. A wrong is done the people of the District wnen they are deprived of their American birth- right, but a much greater wrong will be done if the day shall ever come when they have so long been deprived that they are indifferent about it.” Mr. Suter’s Speech . Suter’s speech in part follow: “My _distinguished colleague, Mr. Lesh, has graphically depicted the anomalous posiion occupied by the National Capital commumty. His has be:zn, as the physician mignt well say, a clear diagnosis. Naturally there is immediately suggested: What remedy is offered? “The best legal minds are agreed that this condition can only be cured through an amendment to the Federal Consti- tution. For a number of years in each succeeding Congress there has been in- troduced 1n both the Senate and the House of Representatives a joint resolu- tion proposing such amendment. This resolution reads as follows: “‘Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two- thirds of each house concurring there- in), That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States be proposed for ratification by the Legis- latures of the several States, which, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, shall be valid as a part of said Constitution, namely, insert at the end of section 3, article IV, the following words: The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District constituting the geat of Government of the United States, created by article I, 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 section 2. Entitled to Representatives. “‘When the Congress shall exercise this power the residents ot such District shall be entitled to elect one or two Senators as determined by the Congress, Representatives in the Houss according to ‘their numbens as determined by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggre- gate representation in the House and Senate. ““The Congress shall provide by law the qualifications of voters and the time. and manner of choosing the -Senator or Senators, the Representative or Repre- sentatives, and the electors herein authorized. “‘The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to carry into execution the foregoing power.' * “As will be noted, this proposed amendment clothes the Congress with a new power as to the District of Co- lumbia, that is ‘to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District’ for the sole purpose of voting representation in the Congress and the electoral college and a status in the Federal courts. The Constitution already empowers Congress, through the admission as new States, to extend such representation in the Congress and elec- toral college to Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and other pos- sessions. Admit as Citizens. “Our amendment does not propose statehood for the District of Columbia, nor does not in the least disturb the Federai control of the National Capital 111, | communities and increased th represen S “It is of interest to know what, if any, progress has been made in applying the remedy. As stated before, this res- olution has been introduced in each Congress for years and numerous hear- ings have been held before the Senate committee on the District of Columbia and the House of Representative com- mittee on the judiciary. Clear, logical arguments have been presented at these hearings, representing the s:ntiment of organized Washington with a greater unanimity than upon any other local proposition. The popular support of the measure has increased steadily. . “In the second session of the Sixty- seventh Congress Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, for the Senate committee on the District of Columbia February 21, 1922, reported the joint resolution favorably to the Senate (Senate report No. 507, Sixty-seventh Congress. second session). This report reads: ‘Your committee, having care- fully considered Senate joint resolution 133 and having had full hearing at which both the advocatea and the op- ponents of this resolution were heard, report the resolution favorably and rec- ommend that it be passed and that the proposed constitutional amendment be submitted to the States for ratification.’ This report continued with a very illuminating statement of the case and gave strong reasons for its adoption. The Sixth-seventh Congress adjourned, however, without this item being reached on the Senate calendar. No Report Is Made. “In the Sixth-ninth Congress the Cenate committee on the District of Columbia again reported the resolution favorably, reaffirming the report in the Sixty-seventh Congress adding, how- ever, a recommendation that the matter be referred to he Senate committee on the judiciary, to which committee pro- posed amendments to the Constitution usually are referred. “In the Seventieth Congress the res- olution was referred to the committees on the judiciary of both houses. An extended hearing was had before the Houss committes, but no report was made. “These hearings have had a valuable educational effect and greatly increased general interest in the proposition, “Press, radio and screen publicity have largely extended information as to the un-American plight of the Capijtal e ranks of supporters. “On the day of the last presidential election quite a demonstration was staged by means of a float, depicting the closed ballot box and our voteless condition, while during inaugural week educational headquartets were main- tained in the spacious storeroom at Fourteenth and F streets in the National Press Building. Here thousands of pages of literature were distributed, petitions signed and the cause definitely boosted by means of pithy slogans in the show windows and on the walls, Is it Representative? “Who is doing all this? Is it really a representative movement? “The Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation, the creature of and the official representative of organized Washington, is the moving force having this matter in charge. It represents more nearly a unanimity of sentiment than has ever been chrystal- ized locally upon any local subject. This committee is compossd of some of the most substantial and public spirited of our citizens. Its officers are: Chair- man, Theodore W. Noyes, editor of The Evening Star; vice chairman, John Joy Edson, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, A. Leftwich Sinclair, and this spcaker. The treasurer is Col. Robert N. Harper, pres- ident of the District National Bank. The secretary is Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. 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