Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-02
Chief Justice Covington Ad-
Wises Citizens on Best Method
to Make City Greater.
SPEAKS TO MEMBERS
OF BOARD OF TRADE
Says Attitude of Washingtonians Is
Mistaken One, and Praises Con-
gress as Legislative Body.

The relation of the city of Washing
ton to the federal government from
the viewpoint of a former member of
Congress who has recently become
permanent resident of this city was
explained to members of the Board of
Trade last night at a meeting at the
New Willard Hotel by Chief Justice
]. Harry Covington of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia His
address embodied a plea for co-opera-
ton on the part of the citizens of
Washington with members of Congress
in the movement to make this the
greatest capital in the world-co-
operatioH which Justice Covington de-
clared. is essential if the hopes of those
who have the welfare of the CITY at
heart are to be materialized.
he spoke of the attitude of the citi-
Gems of Washington to Congress and
lts members, which, he declared, is a
mistaken nnseaa one in the minds of many
mind, he declared. that Congress is
not mean body; that as the result of
its wise legislation this country has
grown and prospered.
With Washington's present and fu-
ture fixed as a city which is in reality
city of the government of this great
American nation and nothing more, and
with its development~regarded by the
ASfhh PSopfc dS d part OIL tne1r ODIl-
gatlon to their country, it is proper to
say to you residents of Washington a
word about the real attitude that ought
to be assumed toward the Congress of
the United States said Justice fCoving-
ton.
II know that there has been deyeloped
an air of SNUG compIacency which re-
CARDS the average representative or
senator as provincial, having a mar
row view of Washingtons needs and
a n Or q SeYh& h,,f 1t.
say to you as resident having com
mon cause with you for the continu-
ance OF the progress of this beautiful
city that the attitude toward Congress
IS to some extent mistaken one.
Americas Progress Safe and Sure.
DO not forget that that body is no
mean body. This nation has grown
from the three millions of people
which constituted it at the time of the
revolution to the greatest exponent of
civilization and prosperity in the his
tory or the world. and it has so grown
largely as the result-of the power and
the wisdom of the legislative branch
OF Its government. One cannot cavil
about the greatest parliament of civili-
cation, the American Congress. when
1t Is recalled that through the wisdom
progress has been made safe and Sc
cure. No matter what the differences
regarding certain situations in the his
tory OF America. all writer's upon the
political history of the country agree
that the government of the United
States. in all it's majesty and strength.
Will stand as monument and guide
to freedom in the world just so long
tional power of today, with each in
dividual member of either branch rep
resentative of and responsible to a
great constituency of citizens, remains
the keystone of the government:
Let me say to you, my friends, that
by very reason Of the broad viewpoint
and high character of the average man
in the Congress of the United States,
he has an appreciation of the feeling of
his constituency regarding the majesty
of the city of Washington as a federal
city; and while you have no representa-
tive in that body. If you put aside those
feelings of antagonism which in the
past have been permitted at times to
creep out; realize that for Washing
tons needs you are to deal with an
aggregate body which has been big
enough and broad enough to guide the
prosperity of the whole nation; meet
it in spirit of cooperation, you will
find that from various sections of this
country, from the Atlantic to the Pa
cif1c, and from Canada to Mexico, there
will rise representatives Of the best
citizenship of the country speaking on
the floor of the House for the co-opera-
United States and the residents of
Washington for the upbuilding of the
city in consequence in consonance with
the character which the fathers in
delLbly stamped on it as federal city,
the home of the government of the
nation and the embodiment of all that
is best in it's art, in its culture and in
its civic progress for the uplift of man.
kind.
Situation Here Unique.