The Washington herald., 1919-03-20
SENATOR URGES
$4,000 AGENT
FOR D. c. NEEDS
Trade Board Hears King.
Plan for Municipal Rep
resentative.
BOLSHEvISM SCORED
Republican Leader Mondell
Pledges Support to Capt. I.
tai Measures.


A municipal agent. paid . salary
of approximately $4,000 per year. to
present the needs Of the District to
Congress in lieu of a representative
from this city at present. and to Act
as sole representative of Washing
toms population, was suggested as q
means of securing attention to local
affairs on Capitol Hill, by Senator
William II. King. of Utah, speaking
before 7oo-member meeting of the
Board of Trade at the willard Hotel
last night.
Urged Ii before.
Nearly a decade ago, when he was
member of the District Committee
Of the House, said Senator King. he
suggested the same thing. He re-
peated the suggestion last night. to
be greeted with applause from the
assembled business men.
The municipal agent would be paid
from SUBSCRIPTION taken up by bus
mess men, according to Senator
Kings suggestion. He would be allow
ed to be present at Congressional in.
vestigations into all District affairs.
The suggestion he made some years
ago had fallen through, for what rea.
son Senator King said he did no,
know. He declared he proposed 1,
again. confident that consideration
would be given it by the twentieth.
century Inhabitants of Washington
The American people must vel
learn the art of municipal govern.
ment." declared King. 1--WE don't
know how to govern cities as they
should be governed
Better Washington.
Municipal governments have beer
made the prey of politicians and po.
litical parties Our cities here have
been footballs of political parties.
want this city to be the best govern.
ed city in the United States"
And in foliow-up address to, Sena-
tor King, Representative Frank W.
Mondeu, of Wyoming. floor leader OF
the next Congress. summed Up wha,
he considered the most pressing needs
OF the District and pledged his sup
port to local measures
We need to continue. the develop.
ment of the parking system here.'
declared MondelL Rock Creek Park
should be extended to Potomac Park
Great Falls should be improved
and the water power secured there
should be utilized. There should be q
great increase in weter-developed
power in comparison with power de-
veloped by coal. and the city should
be as free as possible from the con-
tamination of the smoke of soft coal.
1T is time TO get to work on the
land across the street We should
have here a great hall of records.
The government needs It. And we
propose to give you our assistance
along all possible lines.
Vote of Thanks.
A rising vote of thanks was deliv-
cred by the body to both legislators
at the conclusion of their addresses.
The Bolsheviki specter fared I'D at
one point in the address of Senator
King. The Bolshevik is here" he de-
clared. And he may be here for an
indefinite period Europe is being
haunted by him. Shal it portend when
the peace treaty has been signed.
Shall we leave Poland. the Czecho-
Slovaks. the Jugo-Slovaks, and the
smaller nations to the Bolshevist, or
shall we scuttle out OF Europe after
making peace with the central en-
pires, leaving chaos in the wake?''
He commended this question. and the
question of the league of nations to
the thoughts o. the members present.
He did not answer it.
Recommendations favoring the ac-
QUESTION OF the Dean, Patterson and
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.