The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-22
So Chief Justice Covington Tells
Georgetown Citizens Asso'
citation.
HE CONDEMNS DEMAeocuEs
Declares Mass Of Men in Senate
and House Are Proud OF
Capital.

Congress- IL ambitious to see Washing
ton the glory of America as Atnens
was the glory Of Greece, and Rome the
glory Of the empire.
This was the declaration of Chief JUS
tice Covington, Of the District supreme
Court, and former member of Congress,
10 the Georgetown Citizens Association,
which met in Potomac Bank Hall last
night
He asked the citizens to readJust their
notions OF Congress, and to give less
attengiun TO demaRogues who. for po-
litical reasons, might need n little news
paper space, and could ges y through
the sheer perversity OF their thought.
such men, he declared. were not Con-
gress. He told the Georgetown men 10
LOOK rather to the great mass OF able
and thinking men who, as body. had
dealt so wisely with The country for
125 years of growth and prosperity.
Progress BY Compromise.
Congress holds no brief for the de-
structlon OF the District OF Columbia.
he declared.
THE great mass OF men In the Senate
and the House are proud OF the Capital
and disposed to deal with 1t in a spiri,
Of munifcence. When YOU think OF
Congress. don't think OF those few
whom you regard as your enemies.
You hear from them in the newspapers.
because they make news to their own
ends"
The chief justice called upon the cIti-
zens' associations to give voice TO the
real problems of government here. Each
association. he said. must bear broad
minded consideration for the good ut
entire mol N
the needs OF It's own section.
Each. he said. was in the position OF
councilman In the common council OF
other cities, and must make progress oy
compromise and the general veal.
Looking to the future, the Chief JUS
tlce declared that the problems of the
Capital would be much more serious
within a decade or two than they are
America, as had all OF the capitals OF
the old world, would from this day out
grow at a much more rapid rate than
the rest OF the country. and that It
would have class problems more dis .
tinctly marked than in any other COM
munity.
Proud of the Capital.
He bespoke more kindly consideration
of Congress. as a governmental BODY
which had proven its wisdom In govern
ment, and said II was absurd to think
tildl buCl DOug hnCW uOlHlnk VI, anu
| was unable TO meet the comparatively
simple problems OF government OF sucf.
a comparatively small community as the
Capital.
Generally speaking, he said. there Ia
rot a man in Congress who wants tn
see less than magnificence in the ma
| TONS Capital, who wants to see IL less
than the art, educational. architectural.
as well as the historical center OF the
country.
The association instructed its commit
| tee on health to take up for considera-
ton the subject OF dumping on a pri-
vate dump north OF street. near Wis
| consin avenue. The matter was called
| TO the attention of the association nv
Frank p. Leetch, who declared II was
public nuisance.
| On instruction OF the association. n
letter has been forwarded to Chairman
| Fitzgerald. of the House Appropria-
lions committee. asking favorable
| action on the measure to appropriate
bJO0O0 for beginning work on the
connecting parkway along Rock Greek.
| The question OF the reflooring OF the
NJ street bridge was referred to the
committee on public Improvements.