Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-22
LETTERS FRou THE PEOPLE.
TO the District,


BdtfOr StdT:-One OF the most important o,
the recommendations OF the Presidents mes
sage in relation 70 the affairs of the national
Capital seems 10 have escaped the attention OF
the public press In this city. refer to the par
sgraPh In which the message calls attention 20
the fact that the District OF Columbia has not
received any share whatever. OF the lands do
mated by acts OF Congress from time 10 time In
Sid OF education. and In very plain terms asks
the national legislature to do Justice 10 the
people OF the District Ia this respect The Ex-
ecutiye having thus placed the Injustice OF the
legislation OF Congress towards the citizens OF
the District In reference 10 aid TO educat In
such Gear and strong light. the agitation OF
the SUBJECT should be kept up until the wrong
shall be renedied.
The injury which has been done to the edu-
catl0nal interests OF the District by the OInis-
sion which the President points out. has been
no slight one. The taxpayers here have for
years been compelled TO provide educational
facilities for a large transient population
brought hither By public business, without any
OF that national aid which has been so literally
ext ended to education In ali the states and ter
fitOrfesL These gifts TO the states amount In
the aggregate 10 many millions or dollars
While this District has never received one cent
from that source.
The people OF the national capital have been
unfairly and uDgeneTOuSly treated Ia reference
10 this matter. They have a right TO ask Tor
theiT share or special donations or public lands,
a. "a matter OF simple Justice" 10 use the Ian
guage OF the President. We should moreover
have our share OF these puonc lands in order 20
give US a fair start under the educational bill
now pending In Congress and likely TO become
a law.
In determining the quantity of lands TO be
given 10 the District Tor educational PURPOSES
IT'S peculiar situation should be taken into az
COUNT and particularly the great burden I'm
posed upon II Oy transient DOn-taXpayers and
Dy its large population OF freedmen ALLOW
ance SHOULD also be made 1oI the delay il max
fLg the grant. y careful computation SnO rs
that any settlement al all equitable OF the
arrears due the District on this account would
give II fund or al least one million OF dollars.
which invested as permanent loan TO the gov
eIDment at four per cent would very material
b aid In the endowment Of the institutions or
higher education, which are SO much needed at
the national capital JUSTICE.
Editor StGr:-When man becomes a Sena-
ard laws OF his country and the history OF his
own race. To use the words OF your own able
and timely article In Mondays STAR: "a bill
has passed the Senate requiring the police TO
examine and inspect. from time to time with
out previous notice 10 the occupant, all pre-
misses where Potomac water Is taken or used
MIR. Editor. the 4th article OF the Federal Con-
stitution distinctly declares 1.-The right OF the
people TO be secure In their persons. houses.
papers and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause. supported by oath or affirmation par
ticularly describing the place to be searched
ard the persons OF things TO be seized" Such
domicIliary visits as those provided for In the
BIZ are unreasonable searches" sc. The bill
is therefore, clearly unconstitutional There
is not a Senator or member who would dare
vote such law upon the people OF his own
State or district. and the Senators know IL.
The constitutional provision ABOVE quoted was
Intended TO prevent just such dOmiclliary
visits as are provided for in this senatorial bill.
The trainers or this constitutional provision
were well acquainted with the history OF Eng
lish dOmiciliary visits They remembered III 1t
around them clustered the darkest and most
atrOciOus incidents OF English history. ~
mans house Is has cFStie" is one OF the Oldest
maX1mS OF the law. Every man has right
under the Constitution and laws or ais country.
10 make a forciole resistance to any man or
CiliCeT who attempts 10 enter his house for the
purposes provided In this bill. for the COnstitu-
lion has provided that his house snail not DC
subject 10 unreasonable searches, and the Con-
SJijutlon Itself lis the supreme law or the
Ia d Before Congress goes further towards
making this bill . law let its members read the
Constitution OF their country and the history
OF Tie English race. J. 5. b.