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C. |Ask That Political Disability cf Capital Be Rzmedied by Congress. Representative Dyer of _Missour], | ranking Republican member of th | House judiciary committee, and Repre- sentatiie Zihlman of Maryland, chair- man of the House committee on the District of Columbia, joined last night | |in a radio appeal to the people of the | | United States, and particularly their | colleagues in the Seventy-first Congress, | to remove the political disability of the | residents of Washington. { Their addresses, delivered at Station | WMAL and broadcast over the Columbia | | chain, were the first speeches by mem- | bers of Congress on national representa- tion for the District that have been | carried to the whole country over a | Nation-wide radio hook-up. As such, they marked a dictinct advance in the movement to Americanize Washing- | tonians. Mr. Dyer sponsored a resolution in | the House, advocated by the Citizens' | Joint Committee for National Repre- | sentation, to submit to the States a constitutional amendment permitting Congress to give to Washington the right to vote for President and Vice President and to be represented in the House and Senate. He has long been |an active supporter of the movement | to give to District resideats the national | rights enjoyed by other Americans. As chairman of the District commit- tee of the House, Mr. Zihlman spoke with special knowledge of the plight of the voteless inhabitants of the Dis- trict. He, too, is fully in sympathy the political aspirations of the inhabitants of the Capital | disfranchised City. Heartily Commends Movement. “This campaign on the part of the people of Washington for national representation is in accord with the true spirit of democracy,” declared Mr. Dyer. “I most heartily commend it. It is in accord with the spirit of red- biooded Americans everywhere.” Mr. Dyer declared that he had no sympathy with those who belittle na- tionad representative government and discourage those who would participate in the enjoyment of the rights and powers of American sovereignty. “When the question is_fully undfl'-‘ stood,” said Mr. Zihlman, “the people | | of the Nation will insist upon giving to | their fellow citizens in the National Capital the same right and privilege which they themselves enjoy. * * * It is a right guaranteed by the Con-| stitution, ordained by the mundmgi fathers; and the people of the District of Columbia should not, and will not, be satisfied until they have obtained this privilege.” The addresses last night comprised the second program in a new series of radio talks on national representation for the District and were arranged by the citizens’ joint committee with the Columbia Broadcasting System, which | has placed its complete facilities at the service of the committee. Few Here Can Vote. Mr. Dyer’s speech, in part, follows: “‘A Government of the people, by the people and for the people,’ said Lincoln, is a democracy. The United States is Here the people legis- late through Representatives, but unless all the citizens are permitted to par- ticipate in their selection, there is not a real representative Government ‘nor a genuine democracy. “The people of Washington, D. C., are not permitted, under the Consti- tution of the United States, to partici- pate in the selection of Representatives. They are not allowed to vote for a President of their country. The fram- ers of our Constitution did not foresee, I am cure, the injustice of depriving so large and splendid a people as are now resident of Washington of this right. There live in this city a half million people. “The rapidity of its growth and its population in the last few years is evi- dence of the fact that it is not far dis- tant when there will be a million and more people in the City of Washington. Only a few of them have a voting resi- dence in various States of the Union. ‘The great majority are as effectively g | disfranchised as though they were aliens. “No one disputes the fact that there are in the City of Washington as fine a people as there are in any portion of the United States. There are no sound rea- sons why they should be denied the op- portunity that all citizens in a democ- racy have the right to exercise. “To remedy this condition I have been pleased to submit to the Congress and to actively support a resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States so that the Congress, if in its judgment it deems wise, can authorize the people of Washington to vote for President elec- tors, to have Representatives in the Con- gress and to be permitted to sue and to be sued in the United States courts. Would Not Change City Rule. “This is all that the Congress could do if the resolution that I have pre- Wise Mothers Prefer Wise Brothers’ When the nor- Wise Brothers’ Special NURSERY MILK. produced in co-operation with Dr. J. Thomas Kelley, Jr. for Holsteins. 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It has furnished its full quota of manhood in every emer- gency, and they have always contributed in money to aid the Nation more than asked. “The people of the City of Washing- ton are intelligent and well fitted to participate in Government affairs. They also contribute abundantly to the ex- penses of the Government. Tax Payments Cited. “The American Colonies went to war with Great Britain because they were taxed without representation. The peo- ple of Washington, D. C., pay real es- tate, personal and Federal taxes and they are denied representation in the Government. C. M. Towers, collector of taxes for the City of Washington, tells me that the people of Washing- ton, D. C., for the fiscal year ending | June 30, " 1928, amounts, to wi paid the following [ £18,818,877.38 2.556,685.35 9.2t 2378.569 Penalties . '334.440.80 Miscellaneous 76.325.79 Total . 2 32,512.871.97 Gasoline tax " $1,142,441.14 “Miscellaneous and income taxes col- lected in the City of Washington for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, | and paid into the Federal Treasury are as follows: Federal income tax. Federal miscellaneous ta: Total Federal fi - R S I TR TR TR TS “Total amount paid by the people of Washington, D. C., for the year ending June 30, 1928, was £50,840,767.22. This is more than over half of the States paid in taxes for the same period. Postal Receipts Are High. “The postal receipts for the City of Washington for the year ending June 30, 1928, were $5,660,680.44. This, not- withstanding the fact that probably three-fourths of all mail handled by the local Post Office is franked, and hence no revenue is derived from it. The amount of postal receipts for the year mentioned is greater than the total amount received from all of the post offices in any of 19 States of the Union and more than the aggregate amount received from all the post offices in six States. “Another important provision of this resolution places the citizens of the City of Washington on equality with the citizens of the States so far as the United States Courts are concerned. Un- der the present conditions a citizen of Washington, D. C. may be sued in a State of the Union and yet he .cannot, under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, remove the suit into a Federal Court. When this 16,260.745.95 '824,708.16 Court of the United States that court said that while the City of Washing-| ton is a State for the purposes of direct taxes, it is not a State whose people can sue in the Federal Courts on the ground of diversity of citizenship. “A number of our former Presidents have urged that some action as thus contemplated should be taken. This has gone as far back as the administra- tion of President Monroe. President Jackson spoke of it in several of his messages. Approves Spirit of Campaign. “This campaign on the part of the people of Washington for national rep- resentation is in accord with the true spirit of democracy. I must heartily commend it. It is in accord with the spirit of red-blooded Americans every- where. It simply means that those who pay taxes to support the Govern- ment and bear arms to defend it should have a voice. The people of Washin; ton now have no voice in the Govern- ment that they support and maintain. “What is sought here interferes in no way with the complete control by the Congress over the City of Washing- ton, D. C. the seat of the National Government. It adds to the prestige and power of the United States, and says, in effect, that we will not deny to some 500,000 people of our country the right to participate in and to be heard, as is provided in a real and genuine democracy. “I have no sympathy with those who belittle our National representative Government and who discourage those who would participate in the enjoyment of rights and powers of American sovereignty. Lack of it means to Wash- ington shameful impotency. Possession of it means prestige and power.” Zihlman Reviews D. C. Plight. Mr, Zihlman spoke in part as follows: “Under the Federal Constitution, Congress Is given exclusive jurisdiction over this territory and no provision is made for participation in the affairs of the National Government by citizens of the District of Columbia, although it provides for full authority in con- ferring the rights of citizenship upon the people of territories when the ter- ritories are admitted as States. How- ever, Congress does not have the power, | under the Constitutidn, to grant na-| tional representation to citizens of the| District. i “It may, perhaps, be asked: Why did not the Constitution make express pro- vision for the political status of the inhabitants of the Federal District? | The answer undoubtedly is, that the problem was necessarily one for the future. The Constitution did not pro- | ceed to fix their status any more than that of the inhabitants of the terri tories. The location of the District, character and density of its population were all matters wrapped in the obscur- m; JAJ-3) CREAM TOP BOTTLE »] ity of the future, and to that future they left the solution of their ultimate place in the governmental system when their numbers, their wealth and the question came before the Supreme |=—— its extent (within the limit set), the: surrounding circumstances might ren- der a solution necessary. Omission Not Considered Strange. “It should be remembered, also, that there was no voice authorized to speak on behalf of the unknown inhabitants of this conjectural domain. Since the attitude of many minds toward the National Government was still colored by the traditional view that it was but an agency exercising certain powers by delegation from the sovereign States, it is hardly to be expected that any one in that day should propose that a ter- ritory to be thereafter created for Fed- eral purposes out of some existing State or States should be declared in ad- vance to possess any of the attributes of a State. “It is by no means strange that the constitutional convention of 1787 should have omitted to provide a political status for a community yet unborn, but would it not be strange, indeed, if after a century of unparalleled national de- velopment the Seventy-first Congress, in 1929 or 1930, should decline to pro- vide a political status for a community surpassing in population, in wealth and in the magnitude of its mational con- tributions a number of the States whose Senators and Representatives have their rightful places on the floor of the two Houses? Privilege Is Due Citizens. “In order to enlist the interest and support of the people of the entire coun- | try in this worthy project, the repre- sentative civic and trade organizations of the District of Columbia have deter- mined to bring to their attention this anomalous situation and endeavor to interest them in its correction—for cer- tainly it is a right and a privilege which should be theirs. “The right of participation is en- joyed by the residents of every other capital city in the world, and ‘against this privilege no sound objection can be made. “It has been contended by some that the form of government enjoyed here is equal, it not superior, to that of other jurisdictions and municipalities. The same suggestion was probably made to the 13 colonies when they rebelled against the mother country. “It has been argued that many of the residents of the District of Colum- bia participate and enjoy citizenship in other States. This is true to only a very limited degree. as the laws of many States make it legally impossible to vote without actual domicile within the e. Tells of Population. “Further, some contend that the population of the District is_transitory and that those who come here have only a temporary interest in the Dis- trict of Columbia. “As chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives, I have come in con- tact with many of the trade and civic bodies of the District. I have learned to know of their intense interest in the affairs of their local and National Gov- ernment; their serious consideration of the problems before them, even though they do not have a voice in their solu- tion, and I say, without hesitation, that not only would the District benefit by the granting of this privilege, but the Federal Government would the gainer thereby, for the ability and the quality of the electorate proposed in FOR SALE WEST OF 16th. NORTH OF H ST. MODERN HOUSE. 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The Federal Government does contrib- ute approximately 25 per cent of the cost of maintaining and developing the District, and the pecple of this city not only support and maintain their loc: government, but they pay Federal taxes in excess of 15 of the States of the Federal Union, and in every great emer- gency that has they have given of their youngest and best to the Government, in whose af- fairs they are now asking to have A part. Continuance Declared un-American. “Any argument for a continuance of | this condition, and the denial of suffrage jcan and unsound and contrary to the teachings of the founders of the Re- public. “Our revolutionary forefathers fought against taxation wtihout representation: | they fought_for a Government of their own, in which the humblest citizen of the land might rise and be the equal | of the richest and most powerful. The | Federal Government cannot afford to deny to any class of our people the right and privilege which was bought by the sacrifice and the suffering of | those who brought forth this Govern- Repicsentative Zihlman of Maryland (left) and Represemtative Dyer of| SHIPPING BOARD FLEET Missourl, who appealed to the country by radio last night to Americanize the TRUSTEES RE-ELECTED 0’Connor, Plummer, Myers, Smith, Denton, Cone and Sandberg Are Renamed. By the Associated Press. Stockholders of the United States| Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Cor- poration yesterday re-elected the fol- lowing trustees: T. V. O'Connor, chairman; E. C. Plummer, vice chairman; Jefferson Myers, R. K. Smith, A. H. Denton, H. 1. Cone and S. S. Sandberg. Administrative officers elected by the trustees ‘were:" T. V. O'Connor, presi- dent: E. C. Plummer, vice president; J. Caldwell Jenkins, vice president for administration; E. A. Kelly, vice presi- dent for operations; Herber M. Wells, treasurer: D. S. 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