Evening star., 1925-04-19
Decide to Adhere to Original
PIan-SeIections to Be
Made on May 2.
FOUR NAMES ARE ADDED
TO LIST OF CANDIDATES
Had Been Left Off Printed Ballot
Because Notification Came
in Too Late.

The Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions at it's meeting in the District
Building last night completed ar
for the election of the
citizens advisory council on May .
without changing the original plan.
Although Delegate George M. Yeat-
man of the South Washington Citi-
zens' Association presented an amend
ment under which the council would
be composed of a certain number of
councilmen from each section of the
city, 1T was decided that such an
amendment must lie over until the
June meeting for action.
VIII Elect Council.
Before that time a council will have
been elected for the ensuing year un.
der the original plan, which provides
for council of eight members elect.
ed from the city as a whole.
After long and spirited debate, the
federation voted to add to the list OF
nominees the names of four candi-
dates who were left off the printed
ballot because notification of their
nomination failed to reach the secre,
tary of the federation within the spe
Gifted time
These additional nominees are
George E. Sullivan of the Citizens
Association of .Takoma, D. c.; Rev. E.
+. Richardson, Congress Heights: T.
Lewis Dalby, Sixteenth Street High
lands, and Lemuel FuEitt, Southeast
Citizens Association
The federation also adopted a set
of detailed rules to govern the election
on the night of Ma =, but before ap
proving the rules the members en-
gagged in another lively debate over a
stipulation that delegates would be re
quired to vote for six nominees. which
is the number to be elected by the
federation.
Two Colored Members.
The other two members of the
council are to be chosen from among
the colored associations and elected
by their own Federation of Civic AS
sociations early in May.
The federation. after numerou:
parliamentary tangIes, decided to III
the rules of the election so sthat q
delegate may vote for less than sis
candidates IL he so desires. -. -..t,.
William S. Torbert, who submitted
the rules for the election, contendet
that delegates would not be doins
their. full duty If they did not vote
for the complete number of council
men to be elected.
Other delegates, led by William
Mex. Clayton, contended with equal
force that the federation could no,
undertake to force the delegates to
vote for the full number to be elected
IL some of the delegates only saw on
the ballot two or three names fol
which they were willing to vote.
Point of Order Raised.
A. E. Shoemaker made a motion tc
allow delegates to vote for less than
six nominees If they desired. A poin,
OF order was raised that such a mo
ton had the effect of changing the
original plan for creating the coun
Gil and could not be considered al
last nights meeting
President Suter sustained the point
of order, but on an appeal from the
decision the federation voted the mo
ton in order and finally adopted it.
Then followed a long parliamentary
discussion of whether it would b,
proper to add to the list of nominee!
for the council the four names omit
ted. During this debate numerous
points of order were raised, but tn,
delegates voted to recognize the fou
candidates who had been left off tn,
ballot.
During the debate several delegate.
pointed out that the plan for al
elected citizens council is In it's in
fancy, and that no man should b,
excluded from consideration becaus,
to misunderstanding
Wants 10 Members.
Mr.. Yeatman's amendment, which
goes over until June, provides tha
instead of electing eight counciImer
from the city as whole, that ths
council be composed of 10 members
chosen. as follows: Three from tn,
northwest section, two from tn,
northeast, two from the southeast
one from the southwest and two from
the Federation of Civic Associations.
In offering the amendment, Mr.
Yeatman said that the southwest sec
ton, with a population of $4,000, ha.
only two votes in the federation. H,
said there was nothing to prevent tn,
northwest from electing six members
to the council under the present plan
Delegate William Henry Whit,
stated that had the southwest section
nominated a candidate for the council
he would have had his vote and h,
felt sure there were other delegate:
who felt the same way.
The rules governing the election
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