Evening star., 1933-04-16
Citizens Associations Reaf-
firm Support Of National
Representation.
OFFICIALS ARE SCORED
ON BUDGET ATTITUDE
Statement, at Hearings, They Did
Not Want to Reopen Subject
Called Indifference.


tions at a meeting last night reafirmed
its support Of national representation
for the District.
In another resolution the righteous
Indignation" Of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations was expressed at the
conduct Of the District Commissioners
and District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan
In their appearance before the House
committee on the Districts 1894 budget.
Quoting language from the steno-
graphic print of the committee hearing
IN which Commissioner Herbert B.
Crosby and Mr.. Donovan said they did
not want to open the subject at further
hearings, the resolution said that such
recommendations misled various mem
pers OF Congress into believing that the
citizens and taxpayers generally had
no desire to be heard in the matter be-
fore the House committee" The reso-
luton went on to say, such demon
strated indifference on the part of the
present District Commissioners, and Of
the present District auditor to the in
herent right Of the people in a republic
to make their needs. their wants and
their wishes known to the public serv-
ants. constitutes an open challenge to
every public spirited citizen of the Dis
trict OF Columbia and of every part Of
our great country"
righteous Indignation
The resolution concluded that the
federation hereby expresses its right
eous Indignation and that of the cit
liens and taxpayers generally of the
District CT Columbia against the herein
before recited attitude of the present
District Commissioners and the present
District auditor. showing them to be
unm1ndful OF the inherent rights of the
people and Of their own status as pub
lie servants only"
The resolution was presented by
Chairman George e. Sullivan for the
Committee on Law and LEGISLATION.
Several members of the federation. in
cluding Edwin s. Hege of Chevy Chase
and Marvin M. Mclean of Brookland,
said that the resolution should have in
cluded the Director Of the Budget in its
attack. and described 1t as an "alibi''
ana subteruge" for excusing man
ing officials who will probably be re-
placed socn. Nevertheless, when it
came time to vote, nobody voted against
the resolution.
In reafirming its stand in support Of
national representation for the citizens
OF the District Of Columbia, the Fedora
zion adopted a report from its Commit
tee on National Representation sub
mitted by Miss Eta Taggart. The only
debate on the resolution, which sup.
ported national representation and dis
approved the Mcleod bill, concerned
the use OF the word elected" in re-
ferring to the Mcleod bill for giving
the District delegate in the House to
be chosen by the District Commission
ers: The bill uses that word, but when
William NICK. Clayton Of Brightwood
remarked that 1t would be impossible
to consider a choice made BY three an
pointed officials an election, the word
selection" was substituted in the reso-
luton. The Mcleod bill was empha-
tically disapproved, and Senate Joint
Resolution No. 8, which proposes an
amendment to the United States Con-
stitution giving the District representa-
tion IN both houses of Congress and in
the electoral college was approved
Associations Fixed Policy.
The resolution said in part:
Support Of the proposal to amend
the Constitution Of the United States so
as to permit the residents of the Dis
tr1ct to enjoy vital and fundamental
rights OF American citizens, which are
now denied. has long been a fixed policy
OF the Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tioEa. Your committee recon-
mends that the federation reafirm its
support Of the constitutional amend
ment by mdorxing Senate Joint resolu-
ton No. 8. Your committee at the same
time recommends that the federation
reaf1rm its disapproval of the Mcleod
bill because 1t is wholly inappropriate to
meet the needs of q community of
American citizens greater In population
than eight States and contributing IN
national revenue more than the contri.
button OF any one Of 81 States. and even
more than III States combined A dele.
gate, such as proposed, is not repre-
sentative Of the District Of Columbia.
Your committee views with disap.
pointment and alarm the apparent tend
ency OF one branch Of Congress to rush
through the enactment Of District legis-
lation without affording ample oppor-
tunity for the voteless and unrepre.
sented residents Of the District to ap-
pear before the proper committees and
have . full and sympathetic hearing,
While such hearings will always be re-
quired as long as Congress acts as the
Districts local legislature, there is all
the more an urgent reason for such
hearings while we are deprived Of voeinx
representation In our own legislature"
Co-ordinated Relief Plan.
President James @. Yaden reported
that he had sought to ind out from The
District Commissioners whether there
was co-ordinated plan for relief Of the
destitute between public and private re-
lief agencies, and said he had been un.
able to flnd any evidence of such.
The federation's Committee on City
Planning, though Maj. Clayton E. Emig,
brought in q report favoring q resolu-
ton by the Columbia Heights Citizens
Association to change the name Of
Union Station Plaza to LEnfant
Square, on the ground that there was
nothing else in the city named after the
man who had planned 1t. Several dele
gates rose to remind Maj Emig that
there already Is q LEnfant Square, at
the juncture Of Minnesota and PENN
sylvania avenues southeast, and the re-
port was consequently Withdrawn.
Delegate Fred 8. Walker, chairman
Of the Committee on Safety, reported
that he has called five meetings of his
committee since last December and
that on only two, occasions has any
delegate except himself attended. Each
time one other delegate showed up.
Pedestrian Fatally Stricken.
Stricken suddenly yesterday after