Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-25
LEGISLATORS URGE
D. C. RECEIVE VOTE
Council, Representing 80
States, ReiterateS Plea to
Grant Capital a Voice.
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sole function is to pay. They have
nothing to say, ike other taxpayers,
concerning the amount and kind of
taxes they shall pay and how the tax
money shall be spent. Ten years ago.
in 1919, the District of Columbia paid
in Federal taxes over SIS, 50O,000. This
amount exceeded that of any one of Is
States. And these States have 80
United States Senators, and greater
Ihan the amount paid by five States
combined having Is votes in Congress.
"In relation to national war, their
aole function is to fight in obedience
to command. They have no voice like
other Americans in councils which de-
termine war or peace. They have no
representation in the Government,
which requires them to fight, to bleed
and perhaps to die. The population OF
the District of Columbia now nearing
600 900 exceeds that If eight and pos
Eibly nine States; in the great war IL
furnished more soldiers and sailors than
any one of seven States.
Basic Right Of Citizens.
National representation is dis
tinctive, basic right of the American
citizens, in Government of the people,
by the people, for the people-in
Government which roots its justice In
consent of the governed-in a repre-
sentative Government which INSOFAR
ably couples taxation and arms-bearlng
as soldier with representation.
"Since. the more than half million
Americans of the District pay national
taxes obey national laws and go to war
in the Nations defense, they are en-
titled on American principles to be
represented in the National Govern
ment which taxes them, which makes
all laws for them and which sends
"The constitutional amendment which
we urge empowers Congress to correct
this inequity without disturbing in the
slightest national control of the Cap
itai or the present form of municipal
government Congress retains every
power in these respects that 1t now
the District becomes q small fraction
or a part of that Congress, and polite
ally an integral part Of the Nation
which that Congress represents.
National representation will clothe
the Washingtonians with a vital Ameri-
can privilege, to which he undeniably
is in equity entitled, will cleanse him
Oh the SLlEHA ara Sldlu VI uIlefAAACAA-
canism and, curing his political i'm
potency will arm him with q certain
power.
cit will relieve the Nation of the
shame of un-Americanisrn which it has
had and of impotency to cure this evil.
Inficts Injury on None.
at viii infiict no injury or hardship
upon either Nation or Capital to
~ he
Consistency and justice; national
pride and self respect: the will to efface
a shameful blot from the national es-
cutcheon; the spirit of true American
ism and righteous hatred of autocracy
in any grise. The patriotic impulse
toward fun preparedness OF the Nation
as champion Of democracy and rep
resentative government everywhere in
the world-ail combined to make ire
Sistible at this very moment our appeal
for the adoption Of this amendment
"As native of New Hampshire and
resident for many years Of New York
State. which, enfranchised its millions
regardless Of Sex before the passage of
the nineteenth amendment, and q de-
Scendant of the Pilgrim fathers and
mothers who came to ind freedom and
liberty in the wilderness of a new coun-
try, and as q descendant of several of
those who fought and died that that
freedom might be permanently estab-
lished, preserved and maintained, I APP
peal to you as Representatives of the
several States to favor the proposed
constitutional amendment by which
citizens Of the District of Columbia may
become true Americans in fact as well
as in name and may have q voice in
the body which makes their laws.
"A vote for the President of the
United States, who appoints their Com,
missioners, and the same rights as those
of the States before the Supreme Court
in the United States. / hope and be-
lieve that at least three-quarters of the
States will be willing to concede this to
US should Congress see fit to give them
the opportunity.
IF the immortal declaration Of in
dependence is still the foundation and
ideal of our republic and government
derives its just powers with the consent
of the governed still holds, while tax
alton without representation is still as
unfair as it was in 1916, then surely we
deserve relief from the humiliating po-
sition in which we have been far too
long.
Madison Is Quoted.
Madison, who during the constitutional
convention, objected to the use of the
word 'permanence' in discussing the
location of the National Capital as early
as 1888, in the record Of that Congress
said: Our acts are not those of the
Medes and Persians, unalterable. And
surely that has been proven in the his
tory of the last $50 years when chang
ing conditions necessarily have brought
a change of outlook and q small hand
full of people in a newly created city
has grown into a great world-center
with more than a half million inhab-
itants, who feel that they have q right
to be part OF the Government which
they Loyalty help TO support and main
tain"
Mr.. Kicker then read the joint reso-
luton which the people Of Washington
are seeking to have passed by Congress.
which provides for q constitutional
amendment the following insertion in
SECTION 3, article 4. of these words:
THE Congress shall have power TO
admit to the status of citizens of q
State and residents Of the District, con-
shutting the seat of Government of the
United States, created by article /, sec
ton 8, for the purpose of representation
in the Congress and among the electors
Of President and Vice President and for
the purpose of suing and being sued
in the courts of the United States,
under the provisions Of article 3, sec
ton 2.
when the Congress shall exercise
this power the residents of such Dis
trict shall be entitled to elect one or
two Senator's, as determined by the
Congress: Representatives in the House,
according TO their numbers as deter
mined by the decennial enumeration,
and presidential electors equal in num-