Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
VOTELESS DISTRICT
is GIVEN SUPPORT
Georgia Real Estate Group
Backs Capital Citizens in
Representation Demand.

Among the representative organiZa-
tons throughout the country which are
joining in the movement for national
representation for the District of Column
bia the latest to promise support is
the Georgia Real Estate Association.
From Arthur S. Harris. executive Sec
rotary of that association. came tO6ay
a set of resolutions promising aid to
the voteless residents of Washington,
which were adopted at a meeting of
the officers and board of directors of
the association in Macon, Ga, this
month
Members and friends of the Georgia
Real Estate Association are urged in the
resolutions to bring the matter to the
attention of their Individual Senators
and Representatives in Congress, re-
queSting that they promptly take action
at an early date looking toward the
adoption of a constitutional amendment
that would empower Congress to grant
to residents of the District voting rep
resentation in the Senate and House,
the right to vote for President and Vice
President and access as citizens to the
Federal courts.
Literature Distributed.
Since the opening of headquarters
here last Summer by the Citizens Joint
Committee for National Representation
literature describing the voteleSs plight
of WaShingtonians has been sent to
many organizations throughout the
United States. The responses have been
almost uniformly favorable to the
movement to Americanize the residents
OF the National Capital.
The resolutions received by the citi-
zenS joint committee from the Georgia
Real Estate Association are typical Of
the attitude of other organizations with
which the citizens committee has been
in communication.
The resolutions, in full, are IS follows:
Whereas, the District of Columbia,
with its more than half a million
Americans, constitutes the only COM
munity in all the expanSe of the con-
tinental United StateS-populous, intel
ligent, public spirited, of adequate re-
Sources-which Is denied representation
in the National Government; and
Whereas, national representation is
a distinctive basic right of the citizen
in a government of the people, by the
people. for the people-in a representa-
tive government which inseparably
couples taxation and arms bearing as
q soldier with representation: and
Whereas, the principal organization
of the District of Columbia are unitedly
and earnestly striving to remove this
unjust condition through an amendment
10 the CONSTITUTION OF the united SCdLeS.
Four Conclusions.
Therefore, be it resolved by the
officers and directors of the Georgia
Real Estate Association in convention
assembled in the city of Macon, Ga,
this twentieth day of November, 1929,
that
a. We extend to our voteleSs and
unrepreSented fellow Americans of the
National Capital our sympathy in the
deprivation of that fundamental Amer
lean right of representation in their
Government.
~. We respectfully petition the Con-
gress Of the United States to adopt the
pending resolution proposing a consti-
tutional amendment empowering Con-
gress TO grant to the residents of the
District of Columbia voting representa-
ton in the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, the vote for President and
Vice President and access as citizens to
the Federal Courts.
50. We urge our members and our
friends to bring this matter to the at
tention of their individual Senators
and Representatives in Congress, re-
questing that they promptly take such
action at an early date. and thus right
what we believe to be great national
wrong.
a. Our president is hereby author
tied to take such action as may be
necessary to carry out the purposes of
the foregoing resolutions"