Evening star., 1914-03-29
C[UBW0MEN VOTE
HELP FOR CAPITAL


velopment of the nations capital. Jus
titia omnibus is the official motto of the
District of Columbia. Justice to all is
the unofficial motto of Congress. We
are confident that if the same amount
of effort had been expended in remind
Ing each incoming Congress of the his
tory Of the National Capital, beginning
with Its founding by George Washington
on a magnificent SCALE with the obvious
purpose OF national maintenance, we
would not have been in our present
crisis.
That history includes:
THE long neglect Of that purpose by
the national government;
Heroic and self-sacrticing endeavors
Of the local people to execute George
Washington's will in the matter:
THE bankruptcy that inevitably fell
upon them in that endeavor;
The settlement in bankruptcy made
by Congress between 1874 and 1878 with
the guarantee of the Indebtedness In
CURED in capital making and pledge to
pay one-half OF it. and with the definite
promise to pay one-half Of the expense
of maintenance and development in fu-
ture:
The progress which has been made
under that arrangement;
THE adequate taxation above the
average of the cities of the country
paid by the local people now;
Costs Americans Six Cents Each.
The fact that they pay 500 each a
year and all the rest of our fellow
countrymen pay only cents each a
year:
THE fact that the national govern
ment owns the fee simple title Of the
city streets and avenues and reserva-
tions and, in all, property above half
In value Of the whole real property, and
that it Is entirely untaxed. although
the government gets the benefit OF all
municipal services:
THE fact that the people Of the coun-
try are proud of their capital and have
never presented one petition of protest to
Congress against the operation Of what
the United States Supreme Court has call
ed the organic act Of 1878;
The fact that the government has the
exclusive control of the capital. the one
tablished here to be free from all con-
f1icting local Jurisdictions and with no
large commerce or industries:
THAT it is. as Senator Southard Of
District committee Of 1895, said the child
of the Union and the creation of the
Union for its own purposes;
That he said, as to the plan, that it
was calculated for the magnificent capi-
tai of the great nation, too oppressive
from its very dimensions and arrange
ment to the Inhabitants If its execution
to any considerable extent is to be thrown
upon them.' and that it would be most
consummate folly for the Inhabitants to
dream of executing such a plan;
Fully Contemplated by Government.
THAT as the House judiciary commit
contemplated by the government that the
extent Of the expenditures will keep pace
with the magnif1cence Of the plan to be
ultimately carried out:
THAT the local people could not bear
the doubling Of taxation necessary to
systematic progress II the present ar
rangement Is abandoned, hence it would
be conflscation and destructive to that
progress.
IF these and other similar facts had
been properly laid before every new SEN
ator and representative there would have
been no question about the 'half-and-
half arrangement and no question about
the appropriations needed both for moral
and physical progress. The action of the
that there is ample money for all these
improvements if the 'half-and-half' plan
is respected
Delegates to Chicago.
At a business session, following the
adoption Of the resolution and Mr.
Macfarland's speech, delegates to the bi-
ennial convention in Chicago were elected
as follows: Mrs. Ellis Logan, Mrs. George
T. Smallwood. Mrs. Annie Pearce, Mrs.
Cylinda w. Ford. Mrs. William D. Bige-
low. the general federation secretary:
Mrs w. E. Andrews, director of the gen.
eral federation. and alternates, Mrs. E.
H. Pitcher, Mrs Emma F. Shelton and
Mrs. Janet Richards.
Several resolutions for proposed
changes in the constitution and bylaws
were introduced and referred to the
committee on bylaws. The committee
will report on the resolutions at the next
meeting.