Evening star., 1914-02-01
OPTIMISTIC ON future
OF NATIONAL CAPITAL
| Secretary Bryan and Others Discuss
District at Robert N.
Harper Dinner.

Secretary Of State Bryan. members OF
Congress. representatives of the District
bar and high officials of the federal and
local governments were guests at din
ner given at the Willard Hotel last night
by Robert N. Harper in honor Of the
District Commissioners.
Practically without exception the speech
es dealt with the relations between the
national and District governments. and
the majority were optimistic concerning
the future development of the National
Capital. Senator John Sharp Williams
however. took the people of Washington
to task for their attitude toward Congress
men who may happen to differ with their
views as to the needs of the District
Calls Capital Provincial.
You have a provincial capital. not a
national capital, charged Senator Will
liams. and you have created that i'm.
preston on Capitol HILL The people
here. he said, appear to think that the
government is divided into two parts
themselves and tho rest of the United
States.
What is needed. asserted the Nlssis-
tonian shall catch more of the national
enthusiasm concerning the development,
of the capital. 1t is an unwise policy
he said. for the newspapers and the
people here to ''cuss OUT congressmeI
whose views as to the city's requirement:
| may not agree with their own.
Secretary Bryan in a brief speech
choice of District Commissioners, stat
ing that the President had been sincere
IN MS purpose to select men qualified
to render useful service to the people
OF washington and the entire nation, and
to establish here a municipal govern
ment that would serve as a model
Against Niggardly Policy.
Senator Pomerene Of Ohio expressed
confidence that Congress will never pur-
sue niggardly policy in dealing with
the District The man who is mig.
gardly toward this capital" he declared
does not have a proper conception OF
his duty toward the nation
Others who spoke were Solicitor O.
the State Department Joseph w. Folk
Judge Ashley NJ. Gould of the Distric
supreme Court Judge Anderson of tn,
District Supreme Court. and Commits
Conrad II: Syme, corporation counsel o
the District of Columbia, presided a:
POSTMASTER. The guests were:
Commissioner o. P. Newman. Com
missioner F. L. Siddons. COMMISSIONS
Chester Harding, Secretary of State W
j. Bryan. Joseph w. Folk. solicitor, De
partment of State; John Burk, treasure
OF the United States: Senator John S
Williams. Mississippi; Senator Atlee Pom
creme, Ohio; Justice Ashley NJ. Gould
District Supreme Court; Representativ,
Robert NJ. Page, North Carolina; Repre-
sentative James T. Lloyd. Missouri
Representative Charles c. Carlin, Virginia
Justice Thomas H. Anderson, Distric
Supreme Court; Conrad H. Syme. cor
poration counsel: Clarence p. King. presi
dent of the Washington Railway ant
Electric Company; Theodore w. Noyes
Evening Star; Rev. Dr. j. H. Nelms, AS
cension Church: DIR. E. Lester Jones
deputy fish commissioner: Charles c
Rogers, collector of taxes; Boaz w. Long
commissioner Latin American republics
Louis w. Brownlow. Frank P. Milburn
Charles F. Nesbit commissioner of In
surance. and Maj. Richard Sylvester
chief of police