Evening star., 1918-01-26

afternoon presented to the joint COM
snittee, at meeting held in the rooms
OF the Chamber of Commerce. com
{ pFehensive report on the progress OF
the executive committee.
. John Joy Edison took the chair, while
Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the
s1bftt committee, read the report of the
executive committee. of which he also
ID chairman. The executive commit
tees report contained a comprehensive
list of activities and accomplishments
S in behalf of the cause of District rep
resentation in Congress. 1t also made
Recommendations concerning -the fur
ther enlargement Of the membership of
both committees, which were adopted.
Among various subcommittee report
ing was that headed by DR.. George f.
Bowerman, who.outlined a plan to pre-
sent the Districts effort to obtain rep
snernber of the Senate and the House.
. Effort will tbe made to obtain express
: sions Of opinion on this subject from
each member.
ntep followed logically upon the ascer-
tainment of the sentiment of the citi-
xens of Washington. which seems to be
almost universally for such represents
fion-
Membership About Doubled.
Indication of this widespread inter-
est in the representation OF the District
i IN Congress was contained in the first
part Of the executive committees re-
port, read by Mr.. Noyes. It was shown
that the executive committee had en-
targed the membership of the joint COM
uittee. until it has approximately dou-
bled Its numbers and that now the fol-
lowing organizations are represented
: in 1t: Board of Trade, Chamber of
Commerce, Retail Merchants Associa-
& tion, Monday Evening Club. Federation
of Citizens Associations. Central Labor
Union, Bar Association. Association OF
Oldest Inhabitants. Columbia Heights
Citizens Association. Northeast Wash
ington Citizens Association, George
town Citizens Association, Woman's
Bar Association. District Delegate As
sociation and the Real Estate Brokers
: Association.
Organisations which have Endorsed
the movement for national representa-
ton without sending delegates to the
joint committee are: Southeast Wash
fngton Citizens Association, Rhode Is
land Avenue Citizens Association,
ssra1 other citizens associations be-
longing to the federation and repre-
sented in the joint committee by the
federation's delegates and the citizens
IL
government for the District of CO.
1umbia. Two organizations which CO.
I. operate with the joint committee, but
do not participate in its work through
delegates, are the local branch OF the
National American Woman's Suffrage
Association and the American Fedora
ton OF Labor.
Affecting Joint Committee.
The report contained the following
recommendations affecting the Joint
committee:
"u) That appointment to member
ship upon the executive committee by
largement shall constitute the person
so appointed a member also of the joint
committee. (2) that honorary members
of the joint committee may be elected.
either by the joint or the executive
committee; (3) that in the intervals be-
tween the meetings of the joint COM
mittee the executive committee may
exercise its powers, including the pow
the joint committee, not representing
organizations"
Upon the adoption of the report and
members OF the ~ executive COMMITTEES agee
who are not delegates were added as
follows: William Clabaugh, John f.
Costello. Samuel De Nedry. Hugh
D. Digney. William F. Guide. Wilton j.
Lambert. James T. Lloyd, A. T. Mac
donald, Arthur Marks. p. T. Moran, f.
W.. Oyster. Earl Goodwin and Corcoran
Thorn.
The following members who are not
delegates were added to the joint COM
: mittee: Ben +. Allen. LIE Verne Beales,
Ira e. Bennett, William f. Brigham,
Harry ]. Brown, Allen c. Clark Will
liam v. Cox, c. ]. Columbus. William J.
Cochran, A. NJ. Fisher, Gilbert H. Gros-
venor, Thomas Grant, Mark Goodwin,
William Bruce King. G. A. Lyon n o.
Messenger. J. Harry Shannon, f. ID.
shAw, Cfeve Stauffer, John B. Small
B wood. Roy A. Roberts, George Trues-
dell, Ernest @. Walker, David Lawrence
and W. b. Bryan.
Honorary members elected were
former Senator Henry W. Blair and
Justice Wendell p. Stafford of the Dis
trfct Supreme Court.
Committees Perform Functions.
E3 Various committees on co-operatior
s nufhorized by the Joint COMMITTEES were
appointed and have performed theiI
functions. Some have ceased to exist
the report stated. but two still remain
~ committees on cooperation; that or
co-epAratt0n with the Central Labor
Onion A2d the American Federation 81
! Labor, EeorGe q. Seibold and E. w
CyDteE& and that on co-operatfon with
tHA NATIONAL American Woman Suf-
s 1rAGG AHsociaticn, composed Of @, r.
<fman. Louis 0ttenhAre and n W
& &oZ ex-od1cto, It was explained
- xalafieuF ~ se-OpeTatton attll