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port of this plea there was appended
to the petition detailed argument.
The Citizens Joint Committee, refer
ring to the House bill to repeal the
definite proportion plan and to several
bills increasing the tax burden OF the
District" challenged the theory that
District taxpayers are not bearing an
adequate tax burden"
1.-THE Citizens Joint Committee con-
tends" it was declared, that the DIS
trict taxpayers are now reasonably,
and, in view of their peculiar disabll-
tiles, even heavily taxed, and that no
increase of their tax burden should be
considered unless 1t is clearly demon
strated that such additional taxation is
absolutely necessary to meet urgent
municipal needs which cannot other
wise be satisfied. At congressional
hearings, especially that on H. r. 6285,
the committee will ask the privilege of
submitting the facts and reasoning
upon which its contention that the
District is not undertaXed is based.
Ask Correction of Injustices.
"Your petitioners further respectfully
represent that as long as lump sum
payment is the appropriation practice
temporarily on annual appropriation
acts, immediate correction should be
made of some Of its groSser and more
obvious injustices.
To prevent glaring inequity, your
petitioners, therefore, urge, for reasons
stated in the argument hereto attached
as part OF this petition, that Congress
should % increase substantially, both
on general and specific grounds, the
basic lump-sum payment; ~ exclude
great national or semi-nationai projects
from the District bill and finance them
on some other supply bill, so wording
the items thus excluded as to set forth
the exact method of financing in rela-
tion to the amounts Of contribution by
Nation and Capital that Is thought to
be Just, or 49, provide for local rs
well as national maximum of contri-
button, on the assumption that 1t Is the
impotent local partner who alone needs
this protection, or "a by referendum
or otherwise, permit the local taxpay-
ers to have some effective say in regard
to the amount Of local taxes and the
purposes for which the tax money Is to
be expended"
The petition was signed by the fol-
lowing:
E F. Colladay, chairman Citizens
Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations and
vice chairman of its Executive Commit
tee; Theodore w. Noyes, chairman Ex-
ecutive Committee; George w. Of
futt, president Washington Board
of Trade Harry King, president
Washington Chamber OF Commerce; ;
c. H, Pope, acting president Dis
trict OF Columbia Bankers AS
sociation; j. F. M. Bowie, president
Washington Real Estate Board; Percy
ert " Fleming, chairman Finance Com
mittee, D. C. Bankers Association;
Joshua Evans, jr., chairman Committee
on Municipal Finance, Board of Trade;
r. A. Dickson, president Central Labor
Union; Katherine S. Merritt, president
District of Columbia Federation of
Womens Clubs; Ethel Olin Corbin,
president Woman's City Club; George
C. Havenner, president Federation of
Citizens Associations; Mark Lansburgh,
president Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association; George P. Hoover,
president Bar Association; Evan H.
Tucker president Northeast Washing
ton Citizens Association Eugene r.
Woodson, president Kiwanis Club L. A.
CarrutherS, chairman Committee on
Fiscal Relations, Federation of Citizens
Associations; E. G. Bliss, chairman
Committee on District Finance, Cham
Der Of Commerce: Ruth s. McKelway,
president Voteless D. c. League of
Women Voters; Agnes B. Husband
president Twentieth Century Club; M
Pearl Mccall, president Women's Bar
Association.