Evening star., 1926-04-07
DOUCHERTY URGES
DISTRICT BALLOT
New Members of Citizens
Council Address Columbia
/ Heights Association.

The most important question before
the Citizens Advisory Council is thai
of national representation. Proctor /.
DouGherty. newly elected member ol
the council. declared at a meeting ri
the Columbia Heights Citizens .Asso
citation In St stephens Parish Hall
30l1 Fourteenth street last night. Mr.
IhouGherty and Robert +. Faulkner
the other new member of the council
wsfe guests Of the association
Mr.. Doucherty said his idea of what
the council wanted with respect to the
franchise for WashinGtonians was an
amendment to the Constitution provid-
Ing Tor District representation in both
hou2eS of Congress and the electoral
college and equal rights with resi-
dents of the States in the Federal
courts
Mr.. Dousherty said he would not
seek statehood. nor seek to change the
system of government in the District.
nor take any Of Congress- power away
from it. but would ask merely that the
taxpayers of the Nations Capital he
given "A voice in the regulation of their
own affairs.
Urges Constructive Criticism.
Mr. Faulkner expressed concurrence
IN the remarks of Mr.. Dougherty and
urged that any criticism of the coun.
ellis work would he of a constructive
nature so that the council would de
Nefen into truly representative
hodH
J. Clinton Hiatt. chairman of the
committee on public safety. offered
resolutions which were adopted. urging
the correction Of dangerous fire haz
a'1s in the Central High School and
ether schools, that steel curtains he
placed in the auditoriums Of the
T"hools and ample provision he made
f'a fire escapes on the buildings.
The commissioners will be requested
To pave an alley between Randolph
and Shepherd and Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets. Center street from
ogden to Oak streets. Ogden street
from Spring road to Oak Widening
Of Spring road from Georgia avenue
10 Thirteenth street and the laying
Of q sidewalk on the north side is
asked. together with n sidewalk on
the west side of the Lehman tract on
Feurteenth street.
Utilities Plan Approved.
approval was given To a bill pend.
ing in Congress to provide for
Public Utilities Commission separate
frBln the commissioners of the Dis
trict.
Nomination Of candidates for officers
for the ensuing year resulted as fol.
lows: For president, J. Clinton Hiatt
q nd. Alton s. Carty: first vice presi-
dent, DR.. Seneca B. Bayne: second vice
president. Elizabeth A. Hayden; third
vice president, Francis J. Ford and
!. c. milford: secretary. II. c. Phil.
lips; treasurer. Leo kershenbaum. and
delegates to the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, Harley V. Speel-
man and W. B. Todd Walter l.
;Swanton. president of the association
declined denomination. stating that the
time taken up by meetings of the
Citizens Advisory Council. of which
he is a member. would preclude the
possibility of his giving the proper at
tention to association activities.
New members elected were Charles
F.. Warf1eld. Samuel H. Gorewitz. VIII
liam l.. Borenter, w. T. Drake,
If.- A. de Souza. William Estey.
1goward w. Beckley, Flick Lunsford,
Miss Esther Tippet. Percy Parker,
MRS. Flo Steger. August Buehne. ir..
and Noble Lewis. President Swanton
psesided.