Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
FEDERATION VOTES
FOR NEW COUNCIL
Broader Advisory Activities
Planned for Executive
Body Now Formed.

The Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons voted last night to abolish the
existing Citizens Advisory Council in
November and substitute a new and
larger council which would serve also
as its Executive Committee.
The new council will be composed of
IL delegates and the president of the
federation, who will be chairman. The
Federation of Civic Associations will be
entitled" to select three of its dele
gates to sit Jointly with council, thus
giving it a membership of 16. The
present council is composed of nine
members, two of whom are representa-
tives of the colored federation.
Greater powers also will be given the
new council, as it will be authorized to
consider and advise respecting all pub
lie matters affecting the District" No
limitation is placed on its advisory
activities-it may advise the President
of the United States, Congress, the
Commissioners or any one it chooses.
The existing council was created to
act as an advisory body to the District
Commissioners" although in recent
years it reported on legislation affecting
the District to the Senate and House
District Committees.
Bylaws Are Amended.
The change in the council was
brought about by the adoption of a
group CT amendments to the fedora
tons bylaws, recommended in re-
port submitted by special committee
headed by George E. Sullivan. Action
was preceded by two-hcur discussion,
during which series of amendments
was made to the committees report.
chiefly to clarity the phraSeology OF
the proposed new bylaws.
Each of the proposed amendments
was considered paragraph by para
graph and approved. The final vote on
the amendments as whole was 81
to 5.
The IL delegates and the federation
president. when serving as the organi-
zation's Executive Committee, are given
full power to act. Their action will
stand as the action of the federation
unless and until the federation may
act otherwise"
Cheaper Fire Insurance Asked.
The federation also adopted a re-
port of its Committee on Law and
Legislation submitted by Thomas E.
Ledge, chairman, requesting the super
intendent of insurance of the District
to ascertain the proper and reason
able rates" for fire insurance in the
District and to endeavor to secure a
reduction. The report further urges
the insurance superintendent to make
an equitable distribution OF the cost
of fire insurance. based on the "cor-
rect risk fer the several classihcations
Of property"
The committees report was basec
en- a resolution of the Columbia Height;
Citizens Association, which declared
that insurance companies in the Dis
trict in 1929 received premiums in ex'
cess of $34.000,000 and paid out II
losses for life and property slight,
more than 100000 In cases OF flr'
insurance alone, the resolution sale
! the losses in the District averaged
about one-third of the premiums
whereas the loss for the United State
as a whole was in excess OF u OF tn
premium paid. The resolution sug
| gested a reduction of at least one-sixti
| in existing rates.
Increased appropriations for the Com
munity Center Department Of the pub
! lie schools in the 1888 fiscal year wer'
! recommended in a special resolution
adopted on motion of James @. Yaden
! chairman of the Committee on Educa
| ion. Mr.. Yaden and Mrs. M. z. Baugh'
man were appointed to represent the
fedora ton in seeking additional funds.