Evening star., 1926-05-28
$1,000 VOTE FUND
FOR D. c. |NDORSED
Plans Formulated to For
ward Fight for National
Representation.

Vigorous and practical plans were
formulated last night to carry for
ward the fight for national repre-
sentation for the District of Columbia.
The executive campaign committee
voted to raise forthwith a war.chest
Of not less than $4,000 for conduct
ing a campaign Of education through
out the United States.
Tourists now visiting Washington
in throngs tell Capital hosts that the
country at large is ignorant OF the
plight of "Voteless Washington.
They assert that the Nation needs
only to be told Of that un.American
|. state of affairs to set It right at the
first opportunity. 70 bring that op.
portunity about, by every dignified
and legitimate means available,
henceforward will be the definite pur.
pose Of the men and women behind
the movement for national represen.
tation for the District.
w. r. Galliher Directing Finances.
Men representative OF the foremost
business interests In Washington
comprise tho finance committee that
IL now charged with assembling the
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man is W. T. Galliher, chairman OF
the board Of the Federal. al.American
National Bank. The vice chairman ID
John JOY Edison, chairman of the
hoard Of the Warrington Loan and
Trust Co., and the other members
are ]. Harry Cunningham. M. A.
I,eese Ross P. Andrews, Gen. Anton
Stephan. George A. Kicker. Robert
n. Harper. Louis Gutenberg, John B.
IArner, Walter A. Brown, William
John Eynon and c. J. Gockeler.
Last evenings meeting. which was
held at the home Of Theodore w.
Noyes, chairman Of the Citizens
Joint Committee on National Repre-
sentation, was electrified by the re-
port made by John B. Dickman, chair
man Of the legislative COMMITTEES OF
the Central Labor Union and prest-
dent Of the Maryland. District OF
Columbia Federation Of Labor. Mr..
Dickman announced that at a recent
meeting Of the MarylandDistrict Of
Columbia Federation Of Labor the
proposition to grant national repre-
sentation to Washingtonians was car
ried without a dissenting voice. The
meeting was assured that organized
labor in adjacent Maryland and
throughout the District Of Columbia
can be put down as a unit In favor of
"Americanizing Washington" Mr..
Dickman's associates on the commit
tee on cooperation with labor are
George G.. Seibold. vice chairman;
John B. Colpoys, Proctor L. Dough
erty. John Claggett Proctor. Mrs.
Frank p. Morrison and Fred s.
walker.
Campaign Mapped Out.
The executive campaign committee
decided to circulate at once to select
ed addresses in various parts Of the
United States several thousand
copies Of the recent national repre-
sentation hearings before the House
judiciary committee. The hearings
constitute a telling argument in favor
Of national suffrage rights for Wash
ington. Members of the judiciary
committee consider that the testimony
submitted in favor of "a square deal
for the District made out an excep'
tionally strong case. Chairman Ora
ham and his associates are at the
moment immersed in an unprece'
dented pressure Of urgent congres
sional business. 50 that no report on
national representation IL likely dur
ing the present session. But, sooner
or later, there Is the utmost conf
dence that the House judiciary com
mittee will 60 strongly on record In
favor Of removing Washington's po'
litical disabilities.
Meantime, the executive campaign
committed. whose affairs during the
Summer will be directed by its vice
chairman, Jesse c. Suter, president OF
the Federation Of Citizens Associa'
tions, will not rest on its oars. 1t
will. on the contrary. row harder than
ever toward the appointed shore-the
arousing of the whole Union to
Washington's demand for full.hedged
American citizenship rights. Mr.
suter has called another meeting OF
the campaign COMMITTEES for June 10.
when more detailed plans for the
Summers work win be outlined and
put In motion.