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vOTEFOR DISTRICT
District Committee Will Re-
port FavorabIy on Consti.
tutionaI Amendment.

voteless residents Of the Distric
Of Columbia were given encourage
ment in their efforts to obtain ma
tional representation when the Sen
ate District committee yesterday
afternoon decided to make favor
able report on the resolution pro
posing a constitutional amendment
which would empower Congress to eX
tend national suffrage to the District.
Senator Wesley Jones of Washing.
ton, who has sponsored the national
representation resolution Tor a mum
Der of wears, explained that he was
authorized by the District committee
to report the measure to the Senate
with the understanding that 1t VIII
then be referred to the judiciary
committee for consideration.
In Line With Agreement.
The sending of the resolution to the
Judiciary committee, with the IN
dorsement of the District committee,
Is in accordance with an agreement
entered into when the resolution was
introduced in the early days or the
present Congress. There was some
discussion at that time in the Senate
as to which committee had Jurlsdic-
ton over such a measure, ana SEN
ator Jones announced that he would
agree to have II passed on by the
judiciary group after the District com
Ynittee had acted on 1t.
The resolution provides for a con
stitutional amendment under wnlcn
Congress would be given authority 70
allow the District one or two senators
as Congress may determine, and repre-
sentation in the House on the basis Of
the census. It also would give the
District presidential electors equal IN
number to the aggregate representa-
ton of the District in the Senate ana
House. The amendment would further
empower Congress to give residents
of the District the status OF citizens
Of a State for the purpose of suing and
being sued in Federal courts.
Efforts to obtain a new location for
the Farmers Market as speedily as
possible were given a setback by the
Senate District committee when 1t
voted yesterday afternoon to amend
the House bill by requiring the Com
missioners to report to Congress in
December which site they intend to
acquire before closing the deal.
Lack Authority to Get Site.
The bill as amended will enable the
city heads to carry on negotiations
during the Summer. but they would
not have authority actually to acquire
q site.
AS the bill came from the House
1t authorized 100000 and empowered
the Commissioners TO pick the site.
The Senate committee amendment ts
the result of feeling among certain
members Of the Senate that Congress
should pass on the site to be bought.
Establishment of the new Farmer
Market as promptly as possible is essen
tial because the farmers must move
from 18th and B streets soon to make
way for the Internal Revenue building.
The conimttte ordered a favorable
report on tn House bill to permit WON.
en- to serve on juries in the District,
with certain exemptions to those who
cannot leave their household duties.
The committee also reported out q
measure to provide for the settlement
OF certain District government claims
growing out Of the settlement that &C.
Cured in First street northeast follow
ing the construction of the, railroad
tunnel.