Evening star., 1923-11-16


ctdl Committee on National Rep
resentation for the District of Co.
lumbia, Theodore w. Noyes, chair
man.
The Sixty-eighth Congress Is about
to assemble. and from the first day of
it's convening Washington's campaign
for national representation through
the proposed constitutional amend
ment, which the Board Of Trade has
unanimously indorsed. will be pushed
with vigor.
Practically all of organized Wash
ington combines with the Board of
Trade In the Citizens Joint Commit
tee on National Representation for
the District to fight for the adoption
OF our proposed constitutional amend
ment, empowering Congress TO grant
/ to residents of the District voting
representation in Congress and the
electoral college, with access to the
federal courts.
Inspiration Of Committee Approval.
We shall begin the battle in the
| new Congress with renewed and in
creased enthusiasm and confidence
! inspired by our success in securing
from the strong and influential Senate
District committees of the Sixty-Sev-
enth Congress a favorable report upon
our constitutional amendment, set
ting forth clearly, fully and cQnvinc-
ingly the reasons upon which the
committees approval of our amend
ment is based.
Our Campaign In the Houses
II NAV ba that o,,r fret haftle In th q
Sixty eighth Congress will be before
the House District committee. which
has been considering in the Sixty
seventh Congress several propositions
of municipal and territorial suffrage
| for the District. and which. taking
up quickly the general subject of
suffrage in the District, may wish
to consider the question in its broad
est aspects, including our proposition
for national representation by con-
stitutional amendment. The Senate
District Committee followed this line
of procedure and insisted upon hav-
ing before it for simultaneous con-
sideration all of the pending PROPOSE
territorial and national. If the House
District committee. with the assent
of the House. takes jurisdiction of
our constitutional amendment, We
shall push our campaign before the
House District committee with the
same -earnestness and, we hope, with
the same success, as before the Senate
District committee in the last Congress.
Text of Our Amendment.
| Our joint resolution proposes
amendment of the Constitution of the
United States by inserting at end OF
section 3. article ". the following
| words:
| THE Congress shall have power to
| admit to the status of citizens of a
state the residents of the District
constituting the seat of the govern
ment of the United States. created by
article /, secion S, for the purpose
Of representation In the Congress and
among the electors of President and
Vice President. and for the purpose
of suing and being sued in the courts
of the United States under the provi-
sions of article III. section 2.
When the Congress shall exercise
! this power the residents of such Dis
| trict shall be entitled to elect one or
| two senator's. as determined by the
| Congress. representatives in the
| House, according to their numbers as
determined by the decennial enumera-
| ton, and presidential electors equal
in number to their aggregate repre-
sentation in the House and Senate.
THE Congress shall provide by law
the qualification of voters and the
time and manner of choosing the sem
ator or senators, the representative
or representatives, and the electors
herein authorized.
The Congress shall have power to
make all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing power"
Summary of Reasons for Approval.
The purpose and effect of our con-
stitutional amendment and the rea-