Evening star., 1929-08-31
Y. F. v. ADVOCATE
TEFOR DISTRICT
Unanimous Action Taken at
National Encampment
in st. Paul.
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| Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUL. MINI, August 30.-The
| Veterans of Foreign Wars, holding their
thirtieth national encampment here,
! unanimously went on record today in
! favor of national representation IN
! Congress and the electoral college for
| the residents of the District of Column
bia. At the same session resolution
was adopted urging boxing under the
/ supervision of veterans organizations
| in the District.
The suffrage resolution was intro
| duced by Comdr. Harvey L. Miller OF
! the Washington delegation and was en-
| Enthusiastically received by the conven-
| tion. 1t was seconded by veterans from
! Alaska to Florida and there was not a
single dissenting voice when 1t was put
| to the vote.
| The measure not only indorseS the
| right to suffrage of residents Of the
| District, but also calls upon each de-
partment and post commander to urge
| the adoption of such legislation on their
! respective Senators and Representa-
tives.
The boxing bill had been unfavorably
! reported by the resolution committee.
The Washington delegation took ex-
! brought the bill to the floor of the con-
vention. Comdr. Miller spoke In favor
| of the measure for 10 minutes pointing
out that the law banning boxing has
long since passed its usefulness with
the disappearance Of the objectional
| features of the sport 1t was intended to
prohibit. Boxing IN the District he
declared. would give to the veterans
organizations here. an increased source
1 Mt for .,a rit tok lnr
! takingS.
The vote in favor of the resolution
was unanimous. The bill provides for
l0-round no-deciSion bouts under the
| control of an unpaid commission of
three men. No championships or deci-
sions would be involved in the bouts,
similar to the system in vogue in Min
nesota, Wisconsin, California, Kansas
and other States.
The bill for legalized boxing is to be
introduced in Congress by Representa-
tive Royal johnson. and each Senator
and Representative will receive in
dividual communications from the
veterans. requesting support.
whereas taxation without repre-
sentation was one of the major impo-
Sition. which caused the United States
| to become free nation; and
The suffrage resolution follows:
WicItdS tuc NtIGTdILS VI FOTelRIl
Wars of the United States represent
citizenship that has fought on foreign
soil to secure liberty and democracy
| for other peoples from 1898 to the
present date; and
Whereas the residents of the Dis
! tricr of Columbia have cheerfully ard
willingly obeyed all the dictates of good
citizenship. from bearing arms 70 pay
| ing taxes: and
Whereas the residents of the Dis
trict OF Columbia have been and still
are deprived by law Of the first rights
due citizen of the United States. in
| that they do not have the right to vote,
| in consequence of which they have no
! representation whatever in their Ma
| tional Government and, not being citi-
| Zens OF a State. cannot sue or be sued
| in the courts of the United States, a
right which Is accorded even to aliens;
and
Whereas the principal organizations
| OF the District of Columbia, with the in
dorSement of the Chamber of Commerce
| Of the United States, the American Fed
| Grafton of Labor and the National
! League of Woman Voters, are unitedly
| and Systematically striving to cure this
! un-American condition through an
amenoment to the Constitution Of the
| United States empowering Congress to
/ grant unto the residents of the Dis
! trict of Columbia voting representation
| in the Senate and House of Representa-
| tives the vote for President and Vice
| President and access to the Federal
courts upon the same basis as citizens
of the several States, therefore be it
Resolved. That the Veterans of For
| eign Wars of the United States OF
| America, in thirtieth annual national
encampment assembled at St. Paul,
Mimi, record our belief that the resi-.
dents of the District of Columbia are
! justly entitled to full suffrage on a par
! ity with the citizens of every State Of
| the Union and full representation in the
| National Government which taxes them
! and sends them to war. We further
| record our approval of the pending con-
| greSsional joint resolution proposing an
| amendment to the Constitution of the
| United States empowering Congress to
cure this existing n-American condi-
! ton.
THE department commander Of each
State department and through him each
! post commander, Is hereby requested to
| contact, N writing their respective Sem
ators and Representatives, asking them
| to fully support legislation that would
| grant to the residents of the District of
| Columbia the full rights and benefits of
complete suffrage, particularly as en-
bodied IN the aforesaid pending con-
/ gressional joint resolution, as one OF the
| fundamental principles for which mem
! bers of the Veterans OF Foreign Wars
/ have gladly fought on foreign soil"