Evening star., 1932-08-04
EMERY DISCUSSES
R|OT|NG OF 1883
Oldest Inhabitants Are Told
Philadelphia Affair Cost
District People Vote.

Drawing analogy between the use Of
troops by President Washington to re-
pulse "mutineer soldiers" from Congress
at Philadelphia $50 years ago and the
recent evacuation of the bonus army
from this city by use of troops, Fred
A. Emery, vice president of the ASSocia-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants at meeting
of the association last night, laid much
of the blame for the voteless plight of
the District of Columbia on the Phila-
delphia affair Of 1888.
Taking up the question of this citys
lack of representation, Mr.. Emery said
that during the recent disorders here
IF any one failed to maintain oroe~
at the National Capital that person
was not a WaShingtonian."
THE recent demonstration in this
city" said Mr.. Emery, when the police
of the city were defied and the warm
ingS of the authorities, based on sani-
tary and other reasons, we're ignored,
shows how futile Is the argument that
the people of the District of Columbia,
half million in number, mainly high
ly intelligent and public spirited citizens
who pay taxes generously without op-
portunity to participate in determining
how, when, where or how much taxes
shall be, should continue to be, denied
representation in the halls of Congress,
because, forsooth, Congress also for
three to seven months each year, is
located here.
Defiance Comes From Outside.
''The bold defiance of the constituted
authorities In the recent incident all
came from the outside" he charged,
came from the East and the West and
the South not from the District of
Columbia And, it may be added, the
particular constituted authorities whose
function 1t was under the Federal Con-
stitution a:d the Federal laws to pre-
vent disorders, to prevent massed
marches or professions without official
permits, to prevent unsanitary condi-
tions in their incipiency, were also peo-
pie from the outside, appointed without
voice of the people of the District Of
Columbia Both the Commissioner who
has the supervision of the police and
the superintendent of police himself
both very excellent gentlemen, whose
ability is outstanding and who reflect
credit on the Army and the States from
whence they come-are nevertheless not
Washingtonians and SO, If any one
failed to maintain order at the National
Capital, that person was not Wash
ingtonian
''Vision the whole people of Wash
1ngnOn, paying In national taxes more
than any of IS States into the Federal
Treasury, quick to respond to every war,
civically responsive IN every patriotic
undertaking, without the rights of SOW
ereign citizenship that every American
el-0Srhara has. without that sovereign
right of actual representation because
C. s-le demands made $50 years ago by
unpaid men who marched on Congress
135 miles from here.
'fThey were as inSiStent and pennilesS
as the misled group in the recent affair
at Washington. Originally 80 men, at
Lancaster, Pa, from new levies OF
troops stationed there, they hiked the
highways toward Congress, were joined
at Philadelphia by others, as in the
recent demonstration, ard finally 300
strong they sailed with fixed bayonetS
to the State House at Philadelphia,
where Congress and the State Council
held their sessions.
Washington Ordered Troops.
"The Army was invoked then, as 1t
was the other day. said Mr.. Emery.
Gen. George Washington ordered Gen.
Howe to proceed with a competent
force to restrain them and the mutiny
was suppressed without bloodshed. 1t
Is unfortunate that the removal of the
able-bodied squatters Of the other day
could not have, been effected without
bloodshed. But that incident OF the
soldiers that marched against Congress
in Philadelphia, which might have
happened anywere else under the sum-