Evening star., 1933-03-31
CIVIC GROUP URGES
DISTRICT SUFFRAGE
Conduit Road Citizens Favor
Capper Resolutions and
Mcleod Bill.

Resolutions demanding that Congress
give the District national representation
or permit the District to have a dele.
gate in the House of Representatives
were adopted by the Conduit Roat
Citizens Association at meeting last
night.
In taking this action the civic grour
indorsed two bills now pending in Con-
gresS, namely, the Capper resolution
proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution providing for national repre-
sentation for the people of the District
and the Mcleod bill providing for the
election by the Commissioners of dele
gate in Congress.
The citizens body described the "po-
lltical impotency" of the people OF
Washington as "a national disgrace. >
An amendment to the Constitution as
proposed in the Capper resolution would
correct one of the mcst obvious defects
In our basic law, the association said.
This association particularly ad-
dresses its appeal to the administration
now in power, the Democratic party
which has always had as one of its
chief tenets the keeping of political
power as close to the people as possible, ;
the resolution on national representa-.
ton said.
This association believes that the
administration can give the greatest
exemplification of it's adherence to these
tenets by disenslaving the people of the
District from the political bondage in
which they have been held captives
We reaffirm in the most vigorous and
virile terms our belief in the business
OF the great principle embodied in the
Capper resolution"
These two resolutions were among
several introduced by Clyde S. Bailey
chairman of the Committee on Legisla-
ton, on recommendation of that COM
mittee. Other action by the associa-
tion included Endorsement of the Nc
Leod bill to provide funds for the feed
ing OF children in schools: Endorsement
OF the Harlan bill to supervise and reg
ulate the sale of securities in the Dis
trict; favoring the bill amending the
law creating the Board of Indetermi-
nate Sentences and Parole; and adop-
tion of a resolution asking enactment
of the bill to provide for election of the
District Board of Education.
A resolution indorsing George w.
OHutt, former president of the Board
of Trade, and William NICK. Clayton,
former president of the Federation of
Citizens Associations, for District Com
missioners was passed unanimously by
the association.
The group registered a protest against
the heavy assessment of property owners
along Conduit road and adjacent streets
for improvements to the road which
have not yet begun. and for which the
current supply bill fails to make provi-
sion. The same resolution asked that
work on the Conduit road project, for
which an item of $194, 900 was included
in the District budget estimates which
the last Congress failed to act upon, be
pushed as early as possible.
In other resolutions, the group voted
to retain its present name; to oppose
the stand of the federation in opposing
the 10 per cent penalties on delayed
payment of electric light and gas bills:
recommend that water rent be reduced
10 per cent in view of surplus in the
water fund. and to oppose issuance of
ION sale licenses" for vending beer in
the community.
Lucian Jordan, president of the asso-
;iation, presided at the meeting.