Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-17
FEDERATION BEGINS
RENEWED EFFORTS
FOR D. c. SUFFRAGE
Citizens Body Acts After
Report on Survey of
Present Status.

Definite steps for renewing a vigor.
Gus and concerted campaign for ma.
| tional representation in Congress for
J the District were taken by the Fedora
| tion of Citizens Associations la
night on the recommendation of a
! special committee, which reported the
results of it's comprehensive survey
/ of conditions respecting the present
i status of the movement.
The committees 11-page typewritten
report, containing five recommenda-
tions, was adopted with but one dis
senting vote cast by Delegate G. w.
Ayres of the West End Citizens Asso-
citation. They provide:
Creation Of a standing committee
of not less than seven members, to be
known as the committee on national
; representation, which will cooperate
with other organizations 'in further
! ing ip every legitimate way the
/ passage by Congress and the ratifica-
tion by the States of the joint resolu-
| tion giving Congress the power to
! grant national representation TO the
! District.
! 2-That the committee shall take
! up with the citizens joint committee
! the question of strengthening, enlarg.
! ing and Quickening the activities of
| the special campaign committee of
| the joint committee.
| 3-That the committee urge upon
| the citizens joint committee the ad-
visibility, through it's finance com
mittee. of raising funds for the pur-
pose of establishing and maintaining
headquarters until the victory is won
Overtures to Labor.
/ 4-That urgent overtures' be made
| to the Central Labor Union and to
| organized labor. both local and natural,
! designed to cause the local body to re-
| sumo it's place as a constituent mem
! Der of the citizens joint committee
| or, as an alternative, to cooperate in
dependently with the citizens joint
committee through both local and ma
tional bodies in the common cause.
5-That steps be taken to have
every civic organiZati ation in the District
| not now on record on the question of
national representation take "a pos.
| tive and earnest stand in it's favor.
The report, submitted by James w
Murphy. chairman of the special
committee. contained a historical re-
! sumo of the progress of the move
ment for national representation and
! pcihtCo oul lilN hCSCSoitS Ioi n Ni6ol
! Gus campaign of educa ton in the in
! terest of the passage of the joint
! resolution. Special reference was
made to the purported position of
| President Coolidge regarding national
/ representation for the District and
the report explained that the Pres
| ident's statement on this subject
| was issued under a misapprehension
! and that 1t was misinterpreted.
Suffering in Vain.
Mr. Murphy opened his report
| with a verbal picture of the revo-
lutionary heroes fighting for liberty
| and said: Should they reappear on
earth today and visit the seat of the
| Government which they founded on
the principle that governments de-
! rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed they would
probably wonder whether. after all
their bravery, fortitude, sacrifices and
| sufferings had not been in vain when
they contemplated the voteless
voiceless and helpless condition of
/ those who lived in the Capital CITY,
1T Is strangely pathetic that after
all these years" the report continued,
sit becomes necessary to plead, to
| struggle, to take council in an effort
to secure for 500, 900 intelligent, pa
triotic. law-abiding people those rights
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