Evening star., 1909-05-05
TENDER A RECEPTION
RandIe Highlands Association
Members Entertain.
THOMAS c. MOVES GUEST
Expresses Opposition to One
Rule for the District.
REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS
Views Of Other Speakers-Develop-
ment Of the Suburbs-Voca1 and
instrumental Music.
REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS

/ Church to it's capacity last evening. the
occasion being a reception rendered
Thomas c. Noyes by the Randle High
| lands Citizens Association. The presi-
dent of the association, J. Walter Mitch
ell, opened the meeting and welcomed Mr..
Noyes. An address of welcome was also
made by Col. Arthur r. Randle, who re-
ferred to Mr.. Noyes as the next repre-
sentative in Congress from the sixth con-
gressional district of Maryland.
| Responding to the welcome, Mr.. Noyes
expressed opposition to one-man rule for
the District of Columbia and to municipal
suffrage. He favored representation of
the District in Congress by both senator's
and representatives. with the power to
vote, and not a territorial delegate-a
talking machine without force or effect.
He declared the commissionership form of
government has stood the test of time.
and is being adopted by municipalities in
other parts of the United States.
| On the platform, in addition to those
| named were Representative S!ssOn of
Mississippi. Harry A. Colman. president
of the United States Historical Society;
Odell Smith, Rev. John A. Cannon of Tan
gier Island, Md, and Rev. Elias Anger,
pastor of the church, who pronounced the
| invocation.
Congratulates Randle Highlands.
Mr.. Colman, after congratulating
Randle Highlands on its wonderful
growth and natural beauty and advo-
eating the establishment of more
parks in the growing sections of the
District. greeted Mr.. Noyes with com
plimentary reference to his interest in
the District.
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| of the greater Washington that is to
| be. He was agreeably surprised. he
| said, by 'the tremendous development
| across the Eastern branch. with it's
thriving community and the men and
women determined to upbuild."
breeds in US community spirit: 1t
brings men and women into closer
| companionship. You have a commun-
| ity Of home owners. and that is so much
city. with their fats piled many stories
| high toward the sky, where one fam
| lily is piled above another, losing Its
privacy and freedom and almost its
identity. Out here in Gods bright sun
| light, with the birds, the flowers and
the trees, with the river flowing to the
sea, you are made stronger.
| Here you have a suburb named for
Col. Randle-Randle Highlands. 1t is a
great privilege to stand in a place named
for Col. Randle. who is a steam shovel
for blowing through difficulties; an cleo
trio battery sending out its energy to
make others work. No man Is more en-
titled to have place named for him than
Col. Randle We are all working for the
future of the great, big Washington that
will stretch It's length many miles. We
should discuss the new Washington in our
citizens associations and work for its
accomplishment.
Time Of Crisis Has Arrived.
Mr.. Noyes said the time of crises has
arrived. The time has come to adjust the
relations existing between the United
States government and the people Of the
District Of Columbia. These relations
have not been adjusted since 1878.
Discussing the form of government of
the District of Columbia, Mr.. Moves ex-
planned the peculiar relation between the
District and the federal governments ana
the partnership of all the states and all
the people of the country in the welfare
and management of the National capital
Il am opposed to one-man rule, he
said 1T would mean simply a further
taking away of the participation in legis-
lative affairs now enjoyed by the people
of the District. Under such a form OF
government 1t is inevitable that little re-
gard would be felt for local sentiment.
"A man placed at the head of the Dis
| trict government by presidential appoint
ment would be nothing more than cabl-
net officer or a bureau chief. lie would
be tied to the national government by
| bands of steel. He would be as much
under the absolute control of the Presi-
| dent as any other cabinet official. The
District Of Columbia would become a
bureau of the federal administration, and
l am opposed to that.
Opposed to Municipal Suffrage.
Il am equally opposed to municipal
suffrage 1t failed in the days of the
feather duster' regime. We couldn't do
1t with the relations as they are and must
| be between the District and the national
government 1t would be an injustice to
| the people of the country at large il the
money spent for the improvement Of their
National capital were expended by COM
| mon council drawn solely from the men
| of Washington. The national govern
ment ought to and must pay it's share of
| CITY, And the government would never
allow a common council to have COM
| plete control of the spending of the gov
ernments share.
LET us stand by our form of govern
ment, which has already brought us so
| far, and which other cities Of the coun-
| try are recognizing by adopting.
THE plan that seems most logical to
me-" he continued, zig to have the Presi-
dent of the United States the presiding
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| ing the right of the country at large
| to part in the administration.
Representation in Congress.
"The legislation of the District should
| be enacted by the national Congress. but
| the District should be represented in that
| Congress, just as any state in the Union.
It should. be represented in the electoral
college If the President is to be the pre-
siding officer of the District and the
mayor of Washington. And its repre-
| sentation should not he by a delegate,
but by fully empowered representative.
with the right to speak for the 800, ,OO0
| persons here, just as any other represent
| ative speaks for his constituents
/ Representative Sisson said he favOrs the
commission form of government for the
examples of Galveston and Dallas, and
declared that Chicago. New York, ST.
Louis. Philadelphia and other large cities
would do we'll to follow in the footsteps
of the municipalities in Texas. He
pledged his support in Congress as to any
movement for the development of the
| suburbs, and for a better and greater
i Washington.
Other Features Of Program.
Other speakers were Odell Smith and
Rev. Mr.. Cannon. A program of music.
in charge of Robert F. Bradbury, which
followed. embraced selections by the Ma
sonic choir and the Temple Quartet, COM
| posed of G. ". Blakeney, A. L. Simpson,
| Edward Aiken and James Hicks. Mrs.
| Florence Huss, accompanied by Miss
Dorothy Huss, sang a solo. which was
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