Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-04
Energetic Work Is Planned
in Senate and House Dur
ing Short Session.
ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN
AT INDUSTRIAL SHOW
Joint Committee Is Encouraged by
Results Of Far-Reaching
Educational Drive.

While election day lacks true Ameri-
can significance to the voteless WASH
ingtonian, 1t has been selected as the
appropriate day for vigorous renewal
Of the movement to bring about polit-
ical equity for the District Of Columbia.
Today the Citizens Joint Committee on
National Representation, after a Sum-
mer of slackened activity, energeti.
cally resumes its campaign to obtain
for District residents voting represent
tation In the House and Senate and the
right to vote for President, as well as
to put the District citizen on an equal
footing with the citizen of a State be-
fore the courts Of the United States.
Despite the short session Of Congress,
the matter viii be earnestly pressed In
both branches with the idea Of getting
at least favorable committee action.
AS was the case last year, the first
activity of the revived campaign Will
be the participation in the annual In
dustrial Exposition of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce at the WaShing-
ton Auditorium this week. Here the
Citizens Joint Committee on Nation
al Representation is maintaining q
booth where striking signs and appeal
ing slogans are displayed and quantities
of Informative literature are distributed.
Members of the committee are in at
tendance to answer questions and en-
roll those who desire to participate In
the fight to Americanize the Washing
tonian.
Amendment Proposed.
The effort to obtain representation
for the District In the legislative coun-
ellis of the Nation Is embodied in cons
gressional joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton. 1t empowers Congress to gra.lt
to the residents of the District of Co
lunibia the right to elect one or two
Senators as Congress may direct,
members of the House of Rep
resentatives In proportion to the
population and electors for President
and Vice President Of the United States
This proposed amendment also gives
to the District resident the same status
as the citizen Of 4 State for the pLr-
pose Of suing and being sued IN United
States courts. This joint resolution has
been introduced In both the House and
Senate in almost identical terms, and IL
now pending before t1e respective CONF
mittees on the judiciary. The resolu-
ton was introduced IN the House OF
Representatives by Representative Leon
idaS G. Dyer of Missouri. and Is known
as H. j. Res. 81. In the Senate it was
introduced by Senator Wesley L. Jones
of Washington, and is known as s. J.
Res. 40.
Similar resolutions have been intro
duced in each Congress for a number OF
years. Formerly it was the practice in
the Senate 10 refer 1t to the Committee
on the District of Columbia, before
| which body exhaustive hearings were
held. In 1922 the Senate District Com
mittee reported it favorably to the
Senate with the recommendation that
! it be passed and the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution be submitted
| to the States for ratification. In 1923
this report was reaffirmed by the Senate
District Committee, but it has never
been reached for consideration by the
Senate. Recently in the Senate tho
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