Evening star., 1925-02-13
REDRAFT SOUGHT
I Of DISTRICT LAWS.
Resolution, With Good
Chance of Passage, Seeks
Entire Revision.

Comprehensive investigat ton by
special joint committee of Congress
to determine the best way to redraft
the organic law of the National Capt.
tai so as to insure coordination. OF
activities, facilitate desirable legisla-
ton, relieve Congress from burden
some detail work, fix a permanent
basis OF fiscal relations between the
Federal and District governments, as
sure adequate appropriations and per-
haps settle the moot question of suf-
frage for the District is proposed In
a joint resolution introduced in the
House yesterday and in the Senate
today.
Representative Ernest w. Gibson of
Vermont is father of this proposal
and he has the support of outstanding
House leaders. many Of whom have
repeatedly advocated such careful
study of what is needed to straighten
out once and for all the friction and
wrangling between Congress and the
District 50 that all may unite in fur
thering whatever is best for the Ma
tion's Capital
Leaders Are Supporters.
House Leader I.ongworth is favor
able to such Legislation Chairman
Smell Of the rules committee has ad-
vocated it on the floor of the House.
Chairman Madden of the House
appropria atoms committee, Minority
Leader Garrett and scores of others
who lead thought in the House are
ready to support this move. Repre-
sentative Gibson, before introducing
his resolution, conferred with Repre-
sentative Theodore l.. Burton of Ohio
and with Senator Ball, chairman of
the Senate District committee. The
House District committee formally
went on record as ready to make a
prompt report on it to the House.
Representative Gibson will confer
today with Senator Phipps. chairman
of the Senate subcommittee on Dis
trict appropriations, with a view to
expediting passage of this resolution
by having it placed as an amendment
on the District appropriation bill,
now before Senator Phipps' commit
tee.
Moore Has Plans Ready.
Representative r. Walton Moore of
Virginia has for several years advo-
Gated specific Legislation which he be-
lieves will correct the existing situa-
ton which Representative Gibson's S
resolution seeks to cure. He has bills
pending for divorcing the District es-
Inmates from the Budget Bureau and
from the appropriation committees of
congress. He would have the Com
missioners submit their estimates di-
rect to a joint committee of House
and Senate on the District He would
have such joint committee act on all
District measures OF ma jor Importance
and intrust to the District Commits :
sioners wider authority to dispose of
many minor matters that now clog
the work of the District committee es
in Congress.
The Gibson resolution provides that
4 joint committee of three Senators
and three Representatives shall con-
fer during the coming Summer when
Congress will not be in session; hold
hearings and be ready to report their
recon mmendations to Congress soon
after the new Congress meets in De-
cember, and not later than February
l, 1926. This would include consider
alton Of various proposals for Dis
trict suffrage. and especially voting
representa- ton in both branches OF
Congress on the same basis as the
various States and voting representa- l.
tion in national affairs.
Resolution Presented.
The Gibson resolution is as follows:
Resolved by the House of Repre-
sentatives (the Senate concurring):
That joint committee of the
House and Senate, consisting of three
members of the House, to be appoint
ed by the Speaker, and three Sena.
tors. to be appointed by the Presiden;
| of the Senate, all of whom shall be
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