Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-19
TO HEAR REPORTS ON
FISCAL INQUIRY PLANS
Executive Committee Of District
Citizens to Meet To-
morrow Evening.
Will Learn Of Progress Being Made
in the Collection Of Facts and
Funds for the Work.

The executive committee of the joint
citizens committee on the fiscal rela-
ton between the United States and the
District of Columbia will meet at the
Offices of Chairman Mcfarland. in the
Evans building. tomorrow evening.
when 1t will receive reports from all
the subcommittee engaged in the col
lection of facts showing the progress
which is being made, and also from
the finance committee as to the col
lection Of funds. All tho subcommit-
tees have been actively at work.
through their subcommittee, and all
have progress to report
They are the committee on historical
facts, Chaplin Brown. chairman: COM
mittee on financial facts, Capt James
F. Oyster, chairman; committee on as
sessment and taxation. John Joy Ed
son, chairman. and the committee on
statistical facts. E. c. Graham. chair
man. All are expecting to have their
them by the executive committee in the
hands of the executive committee by
May Is.
The finance committee, Of which P. T.
Moran, president of the Chamber of Com
merce, Is chairman. and which is made
UP Of the presidents of all the citizens
organizations represented In the joint citi-
zens' committee, it was stated today. ex-
poets to secure all the funds necessary for
the expert assistance required in the col
lection and preparation of the facts
for the brief to be filed with the joint
select committee of Congress by Au-
gust 1. and for the hearing before the
joint select committee of Congress on
or after September Is next. The finance
committee is urging the citizens.
whether men or women and whether
members of the civic organization or
not, to send their contributions to the
treasurer. P. T. Moran, at once.
Resolutions Are Acknowledged.
Chairman Mcfarland of the execu-
tive committee has received from the
Northeast Washington Citizens Asso-
citation. through its president. Evan H
Tucker, and its secretary, Roscoe Jen-
kins, letter stating that at the last
meeting of the association. April II
1915. the following resolutions were
adopted:
In compliance with an act of Con-
gress, joint select committee has beer
appointed whose duty 1t shall be te
prepare and submit to Congress a state
ment of the proportion of the expenses
of the government of the District Of
Columbia which shall be borne by sale
District and by the United States re-
A citizens committee has been Or
ganized. composed of representatives
of various civic organizations. for the
purpose of collecting evidence and
preparing a statement for presenta-
ton to said joint select committee.
Plea for Justice and Equity.
Washington city. which occupies a
large proportion of the area of the
District. is laid out on a grand plan,
| as 1t should be in order to make 1t
commensurate with this great nation.
| Of which it Is the capital, which plan
| entails much greater expense for I'M
provements and maintenance than
would be necessary for city of equal
population less elaborate in design. A
| large portion of the real estate OF
said District is owned by the United
States.
| The Northeast Washington Citizens
Association believes justice and equity
In its dealings with the District OF
| Columbia require that the United
States government should bear a rea-
sonable portion of the expense for the
support of the District; it believes the
proportion of its expenses, as provided
by the act of June II, 1873, to be rea-
sonable, and should be maintained.