Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1935, Page 13

COPELAND URGES VOTEFORDISTRIT Plea for Capper Resolution Made at Historical So- ciety Meeting. Representation in Congress and the right to vote in presidential elections for citizens of the District of Colum- bia was vehemently urged last night by Senator Royal S. Copeland, Demo- crat, of New York, in a speech before the Columbia Historical Society at the Mayflower Hotel. Copeland, a member of the Senate District Committee, discussed in detail the reasons for original location of the Capital in the District and for the early Congresses’ insistence on control of the local government as he declared recognition of District dwellers “as Americans and citizens In the geepted sense could not pos- sibly disturb the existing control of the Nation over its Capital. “It would give these isolated Ameri- cans at the Capital the same frac- tional participation in the bodies which control the Capital as the citizens of the several States now possess " “From my long and close contact with the people of the District, I am thoroughly convinced, and it is quite unnecessary to say it, that they are sufficiently civilized, educated, sub- stantial and patriotic to take their | place through elected representatives in the Councils of the Nation. I am likewise fully convinced the District should have a fuller participation in all measures having to do with ap- propriations for the District Wd a Jarger part in their local affairs. Early Dispute Recalled. The capital was located in the District, formed from Maryland and Virginia in 1800, Copeland said, as & result of a bargain between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson after a dispute between advocates of a site on the Delaware River and the Potomac River. A march of unpaid soldiers of the Revolutionary Army in 1783 on Con-’ gress, then meeting in Philadelphia, led to the decision to set up a seat of government under absolute control and domination of Congress, Copeland said But Copeland denied the framers of the Constiution meant Congress to have the same control over the Dis- trict of Columbia as Section 8 of the Constitution gives the body over forts, arsenals and dockyards. The speaker pointed out that prop- erty in the District was and is pri- vately owned to great extent, while a fort, arsenal or dockyard is wholly owned by the Government and of necessity under its absolute control. Blames Oversight. He attributed the plight of the | District dwellers in great extent to an oversight of the State of Maryland in | ceding its part of the District to the National Government. The Senator | pointed out that Russia, Mexico, Spain | and France all provided in their ces- | gions of territory a guarantee of full | rights of citizens of the United States for people living in territories ceded to | this country by those nations | Virginia made the same demand in ceding the Northwest Territory to the Federal Government, but failed to reiterate it when part of the District was carved from her soil, Copeland stated. Maryland likewise held out for no such proviso. Later Virginia's contribution to the District was ceded back after protests of the citizens of ! Alexandria on the lack of the vote. Desire of the Government to be able to protect itself at its head- quarters without dependence on any other authority or embarrassment by any conflict of authority led the | founders of the Nation to decide that | the seat of government should be un- der control of the Government, Cope- | land said. | Recalls Early March. | He pointed out the indignation of | the members of the Congress at the appearance of the unpaid soldiers about their place of meeting, and the failure of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania authorities to afford Congress protection from these mu- tinous troops. Continuing the Sen- | ator said: “It isn’t difficult to believe that this experience was not soon forgotten by the men who participated in it. It was only human nature for them to take the position that there should be established a seat of government abso- lutely under the control and domina- tion of the Congress. There would | be an unfailing means cf protection | for the legislative body and for the | executive and judicial branches as | well. There would be no possibility of insult or interference with normal functions.” Copeland held it is a debatable question as to what extent Federal | control must go to accomplish freedom from such interference. “The residents of the District of Columbia are our fellow Americans and, as Jeeffrson stated it in the Dec- laration of Independence, are endowed with certain ‘inalienable rights.” Once Had Voteless Delegate. “These rights our ancestors fought for and would never surrender. Gen- erations then unborn were to come along, and they, too, were endowed with these same inalienable rights which their ancestors could not sur- render in advance.” At no time in the 135-year-old his- tory of the District of Columbia have residents of the area had a voice in | national affairs, Copeland said. For a brief period the District was permitted a voteless Delegate in the House of Representatives, but even $his boon was withdrawn in 1874, When a temporary commission govern- thent, made permanent in 1878, was substituted for the territorial form, the Senator told the audience, Up to 1872, the speaker stated, Georgetown and Washington, the two Municipalities of the District after Alexandria’s withdrawal, were self- governing communities to a very lim- {ted extent, with mayor and council. From 1872 to 1874 the municipalities were combined and the citizens per- mitted only to vote for members of the lower house of a territorial legis- }:t:ge and for the voteless Delegate e House of Representatives, - land continued. & co= ‘“There has been no voting by Dis- trict residents since the establishment, ————— EDUCATIONAL. 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Copeland urged adoption of the Capper resolution to amend the Con- stitution to permit a voice in national affairs for District residents, saying: “Representation in both Houses of Congress and the right to participate in the presidential elections would be merely to accord these, our fellow Americans, the enjoyment of what we may call their ‘natural rights.’ “They are as vitally interested in all national legislation and the carrying out of national and international policies as are the citizens of the States.” He quoted from arguments for & District vote advanced as long ago as 1801 by Augustus Bevoort Woodward, who wrote: “This body of people is as much entitled to political freedom, as much entitled to the enjoyment of the rights of citizenship, as any other ’I 45 quires no Wilt, Wrinkle, Crush — fast-color Military Stripes Fancy Patterns | 1420 K St. N.W. NAtional 3258 (The Hecht Co.. Second Floor.) THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, part of the people of the United States. “They are entitled to a domestic government, free and energetic; a gov- efnment founded on the principles of republican representation; capable of regulating all their concerns, without waiting the leisure of a body, who are not only ignorant of their local affairs, and liable to eternal deception, but whose attention is totally engrossed by other objects.” Copeland continued in regard to the Capper amendment: “This proposed amendment does no more than to increase the powers of Congress, enabling it to enfranchise District residents in national matters, and to give voting representation in Congress. “It makes no modification what- ever in the form of local government as it is now established, nor in the relations existing between the United "Trimset” Shirts forYoungerMen With the collar that re- starch—won't Curl or broad- clothe—White, Blue, Tan, Stripes. Sizes 121, to 15. 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