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community Of more than half-a-mil-
lion Americans have no right OF par
ticipation or representation like other
Americans IN their National Govern
ment. They pay both local and
national taxes and bear all other
burdens just the same as citizens in
the States, but they have no repre-
sentation in the Congress which
governs them and cannot vote for the
President and the Vice President.
Omission in Constitution.
This political disability Of these
citizens is clearly due to the omission
by the trainers of the Constitution
of a provision for their representation
In the councils of the Nation and to
participate in the selection OF the
Chief Executive. The Constitution
gives Congress the power OF exclusive
legislation in all cases whatsoever
over the seat of the Federal Govern
ment and this is wise provision.
But there is no valid American reason
why the citizens permanently residing
in the District and claiming residence
nowhere else should not have the
right to be represented in the Con-
press by some of its own citizens OF
its own choice. 1t seems to me only
right and proper that these fellow
Americans should enjoy this privilege
which elsewhere in our country is
denied only to convicts and to those
Of unsound mind.
For a century and third these po-
litical cripples have sought to be made
whole Americans. In 1846 that part
of the original District of Columbia
which had come from Virginia was
ceded back to that State after fight
Of many years. The people in that
section we're thereby restored their
American citizenship.
The present movement for national
representation for the District Of Co
lumbia is we'll organized and sup
ported by practically all of the civic.
trade ana labor bodies OF the District
and by a number of the great ma
tional, State and regional organiza-
tons.
Amendment Proposed.
1t has been my privilege to intro
duce in the Senate a Joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution Of the United States empow-
ering Congress to grant voting repre-
sentation in the Senate and House
of Representatives to the people Of
the District. This proposal will not
disturb the existing relations between
the Congress and the District, but
will simply give the people of the Dis
trict the same fractional participation
in the running of the National Gov
eminent which is possessed by all
other citizens in the States.
With just pride our organization can
point to its work for the cure OF
crippled children and these political
cripples of the National Capital should
arouse our interest, our pity and our
determination to help them. You
may say that a community 1875 years
old cannot be classed as child, but
compared with national capitals
Washington Is q mere infant when
one thinks Of Rome, London and
Paris.
AS q Noble Of the Mystic Shrine
and as an American, the justice of
this cause appeals to me as pure fun
eiamental AmericaniSm. appeal to
YOU, my fellow Mobiles, to look into
this matter and lend the weight Of
your influence IN making these people
our equals as national Americans as
they are our equals in other respects.
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Congress. In an
area occupied by
q half a million
OF our country
men, an over
whelming major
ity Of whom were
born in the
United States,
the inhabitants
have no part or
parcel in govern
ing their city.
They must take
what a grudging
Congress decides
shall be spent at
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Visitors Find Washington
Without Votes.

1.-TWO American voters
Met here just by chance.
One came from Russia
And one came from France.
with pride In their franchise,
They learned with regret
That man from Right Here
Isn't naturaiized yet"
~ PNTE4ANDER JOHNSON.
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WASHINGTON HELD.
POLITICAL CRIPPLE.
Senator Capper Makes Plea
to Shriners to Assist
City Get Vote.
BY SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER.

Mobiles and other visitors to WASH
ineton during the Shrine convention
are sure to be impressed with the
beauty and the charm of our Capital
CITY and the magnificence Of the
Government buildings. TheyS viii
come in contact with the fine body
of people who make up the permanent
residents of the National Capital COM
munity and are sure to be impressed
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with JneH DelIiS
the equals Of any
Americans in the
land. w lille
Washington be-
longs to the Ma
ton this is their
home town.
Visitors taking
in the sights and
studying the Ma
tional C a pi t a !
should not over
look a popularity
here not found
elsewhere in our
country. Here the
residents in q
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'0TY'S POPULATION
EXCEEDS 5 STATES.
s..
Senator Copeland Also Cites
U. S. Taxes Greater Than
Nine Combined.
BY SENATOR ROYAL s. COPELAND.

The eyes Of the Nation are con-
stantly turning to Washington. D. c.,
National Capital by people through
out the land, but there Is one very
vital thing about it which Is generally.
unknown. There Is wide ignorance on
the part Of the American people,
perhaps q majority, that the citizens
Of an American city are denied the
right to vote. They have no part in
the election Of President and they
have no part in the deliberations Of
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in OGo
Though
internal
oytngRp alton nConge@ sand the and sd n
That Deepy In
eSeekno HsRem
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Washingtonions Keep Up City
But Lack Share in Its Rule
Emery Denies ID. C.. Residents Lire Here
by Indulgence of Congress but Are
SeIf-Sustainirg in Every Way.

six months Of every year. Few officials
and clerks in the great variety of the
new Federal agencies in Washington
pay any taxes to the city whose bene-
fits they enjoy. But the Washington
taxpayers carry on, bearing the fiscal
burdens of great community which
is their home and their pride.
Metropolis Of Half Million.
Washington is not merely a Fed
eral Capital. It is a local city, q
metropolis of upwards of half million
people. Vast areas in it are occupied
by Federal buildings and all Federal
buildings are exempt from taxation.
Every tax exemption naturally cuts
down the sources of local revenue.
Hundreds of thousands Of people
from every State and from every land
come to Washington annually. We
welcome them to the benefits Of a
great municipality. They go through
the magnificent buildings which the
Federal Government has built here. I
would remind them that we, too, here
in Washington, the voteless taxpayers,
helped pay for those buildings.
Those mammoth Federal structures
we're provided by a bountiful Govern
ment not for WashingtonianS at all, as
some people seem to think in telling
what the Government has done for
Washington. They were built for
Federal purposes, for Federal activi-
ties all over the United States.
Washingtonians paid their part OF
the costs of construction and main
tenance of those Federal buildings,
the same as taxpayers elsewhere. We
even paid greater part OF the costs
of all the expense of the Federal Gov
eminent than each of many States.
We paid more than combined group
of some of the States. toward all these
Federal costs that are mounting into
billions Of dollars.
Washingtonians Pay Share.
Neutrality-suspicious. have paid their
share and more toward the pay rolls
of Federal employees everywhere in
this broad land, the largest Govern
ment civil army in the history of the
republic. The taxes paid by WASH
lngDO0 c1ClzenS nclp pay luz LIE SoSeS
of the Federal Government wherever
the American flag flies.
Congress makes the laws for the
District Of Columbia and properly so
under the Federal Constitution. The
Treasury collects from washington
taxpayers taxes that 60 as revenue
into the entire country for the benefit
of every American citizen. They pay
taxes just as everybody else in this
broad land does.
But the people In the States have
their representatives In the halls of
Congress, with vote and voice on
whatever concerns their affairs. WASH
ington taxpayers have no vote, no
voice, no representation In the ma
tional legislature that tells them what
they may do. A constitutional
amendment could correct this un-
American situation.
We are glad this is the Nations
Capital we are glad the forefathers
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Constitutional Amendment

Here the teri of the amendment Which mould empower
Congress the District fundamental American rights
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What is it, Hoslsinse" she asked through
the speaking tube. why don't we 20 on9"
"Detour, man," said Hoskins.
go ahead, Gully. " said the young man with
the red flag. THE detour amt marked yet.
Follow that car ahead"
The next car was a coupe and on its sides
were the words "Hetherton Furnaces. Phone
Albert 6-7654. New York." and the young
man in the coupe was Joe Cuttings. On the
seat beside him were booklets and dispatch
case
"Detour, buddy. Follow the car ahead"
said the young man with the red flag. and Joe
Cuttings said. "You said it, fellowr and fol.
lowed the landau.
Two sedans next, the first a saucy blue air
flow model with two women in it - Mrs. H.
G. Persons and Mrs. Peter Tanner - with
bird glasses. out to see the warblers. The
second was 1888 car with Rocco Perrone
and his wife and six children.
Follow that car ahead Follow that car
ahead" said the young man with the red flag
and turned to the big New York Boston bus
that was next. Mike Farren was driving the
bus. and he said some appropriate words
about detoms. being supposed to run on
schedule. but his passengers - thirty-seven
of them - did not seem concerned. They who
travel by bus take things as they come.
The afternoon traffic was in full food now.
Car followed car-a peeled roadster with
many painted jestful notices, driven by
"Pugs" Trent, with five merry boys and girls
crowded in; sedate black car driven by
Charles Farnum with his wife and mother-in-
law. Then ten or twelve assorted cars, and
large one something like furniture van but
with megaphone atop. This car was inscribed
Soldiers of Salvation. Division 2, Car No. g."
and the megaphone was blaring "Rock of
Ages" When the young man with the flag
said. Follow the car ahead" the driver said.
Follow the Lord, young man," and handed
him tract. He leaned out to shout back.
Read itv'
Following the gospel car were half dozen
more passenger cars. then pure white ice
cream truck, more passenger cars. another
bus, and more cars, and more, and more.
Follow the car ahead follow the car
ahead, repeated the young man with the flag.
Rance Coffey in his sedan kept to the side
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hSANACA yoAoo, SuuibulS lliC
hillside. and then continued at lesser
gradient through stretch OF woods.
AsMrs. Whittleson- Barlow's landau turned
into the road and the landau's left wheels
struck the rock there. she spoke through the
tube to Hoskins
Careful. Hoskins," she cautioned.
Joe Cuttings in the Hetherton Furnace
coupe put out his hand to steady the booklets
and dispatch case as his car bumped over
the rock. Then he footed his horn as the
Whittleson Barlow landau slowed down,
but that did no good because Hoskins was
using the whole road. avoiding the rocks in
the road in consideration of Mrs. Whittleson-
Barlow's old bones. Far down on the side
road the megaphone of the Soldiers of Sal
vation car was now blaring Onward Christian
Soldiers" 1t could be heard for miles.
Midway through the strip of woods, Rance
Coffey's sedan began to cough. 1t lost speed.
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"A rURDER in hot blood is an awful
thing it means that a man is
" wrested from his normal course
- Va by forces beyond his control, as
il planet should be torn loose from its orbit
by sudden anger to dash madly upon another,
annihilating it.
When Rance Coffey, alone in his farm
kitchen, heard the final words of George Blake
in the heifer dispute he saw red and slammed
the receiver on its hook. Nobody could talk to
him like that. Nobody could call him those
names He stood moment, breathing hard,
and then went to the closet where his shotgun
stood in a corner.
He took six shells from the box on the shelf.
Two shells he inserted in the gun, the re-
naming four he dropped into the pocket of
his coat. Carrying the gun he went out of the
house and 50 to the old wagon shed where his
four year old sedan stood.
Rance Cofey put the gun on the rear seat,
pushing it well back. and over it he laid the
robe. He swore tensely as he pressed the
starter again and again, but the motor started
at length. His face was grim and his eyes were
hard as he drove down the lane to the main
road. He turned east.
Rance Coffey had bought the heifer from
George Blake for thirty-six dollars, paying ten
dollars down. He had taken the heifer home,
and that night she died. She was dead when
Rance went out to the barn the next morning
dead as doornail.
Naturally, when George Blake came to COL
lect the twenty-six dollars, Rance refused to
pay, then or ever They had five other talks
about it. both more angry each time, with
threats and loud talking, and now Rance had
reached his limit. He was murderous mad His
brain was afre with burning that nothing
could relieve but the roaring of both barrels
of his gun full against George Blake's chest.
That is what is meant by seeing red. 1t is
temporary insanity
On the main road Rance Cofey forced his
car to fifty miles an hour to sixty. He
crowded it to sixty five, 50 that every bolt and
shackle ratified. He could not get to George
Blake fast enough. Then. just where the back
road turned off on the right, he saw two red
trestles set across the main road - workmen
were even then putting them in place and
from among them young fellow stepped into
the road holding up both hands. red flag in
one.
Hold on, feller! Road closed. Got to de-
tour" said the young man. Take that road
on the right. Keep on until"
cit out of my way" said Rance. Il been
living here forty years. You don't have to
tell me-"
'Ol<ayv' said the young man cheerfully.
He waved his flag and Rance Coffey swung
into the side road. Already second car was
waiting behind Coffey's. It was noble Ian
dau, uniformed chauffeur at the wheel. and
inside sat Mrs. Emory Whittleson-B Barlow,
aristooatically severe. her Peke on her lap.
Evening star., 1935-05-05
May S, 1895

A quarter mile further. as it left the woods
the Whittleson-B Barlow landau passed it. and
the Hetherton Furnace coupe shot by and
passed the landau.
Rance Coffey's sedan was labonng now,
making hard going Of it, and he looked at the
landau and the coupe and scowled.
What the heck?" he muttered. for he was
surprised that stately landau should be
going to George Blake's farm. A coupe -
well, a mercantile coupe might be expected to
go anywhere - but -
Mrs. H. G. Persons and Mrs. Peter Tanner
in blue air flow sedan passed him, and so did
Rocco Perrone and wife and six children in a
1888 sedan. The thought that George Blake
might be having an auction sale flashed
through Rance Coffey's mind. but it flashed
out again when huge New York Boston bus
blared a commanding request for passageway.
Say. what the" Rance Coffey NUT
tered, but the rest was lost in the yells of
Puss Trent and five merry boys and girls as
they skittered in their peeled roadster.
Up beyond where Rance Cofey's sedan was
gasping its slow progress, Joe Cuttings coupe
found the road narrowing to mere country
lane. Ahead of him he saw farm house, and
the lane ended in barnyard. He drove in
because there was nowhere else to 60. looked
around. hesitated and stopped his car. From
the barn came George Blake. in overalls.
"Say, friend how does man get through
here!" Joe Cittings .sked. Where does this
detour 60 from here?"
Through? Detour?" questioned George
Blake. There amt no way through here.
Amt nothin' back yonder but pasture. You
must have took the wrong road. Well, Ill
be dumbedv'
He was looking down the lane. Mrs.
Whittleson-B -Barlows landau was just entering
the farmyard and. beyond it as far as he could
see, were more cars - sedans and roadsters
and bus that filled the lane from side to side
and vans and car with a megaphone atop
that was scIeeching There's Land That is
Fairer than Day." Each moment more cars
came into view.
As they entered the farmyard, the cars
turned this way and that way into any avail
able vacant space until, wedged in the midst
of them, the gospel car stood like keystone.
In the landau Mrs. Whittleson- Barlow was
asking through the tube, "Hoskins. what is
the meaning of this?" and from the bus
issued Mike Farren eager to give almost any
body biff on the jaw and demanding, What
the devil does this mean?"
Brothers and sisters" blared the mega.
phone on the gospel car, I'VE are sent by the
Soldiers of Salvation. an organization -"
1t was probably rousing appeal. but no
one paid any attention to it. Rance Coffey
did not. At the foot of the lane he had swung
his old sedan crossways of the road, backing
1t as far as it would back. He halted by this
the whole line of traffic that extended down
George Blake's farm road, down the side road
to the main road, and still further. A hundred
horns footed impatiently.
Jaw, shut up!" Rance Coffey exclaimed.
"A mans got right to turn his car around,
amt he1'
Murder in hot blood is an awful thing but
there was no murder that day, nor any by
Rance Coffey thereafter. That sudden impulse
VA, az you might say. detomed.
,yslht 1885, Uaissd Nswspapsss asasi.e Cespssas,sa
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road for a quarter of a mile
or so before he left it to take
the road that left it at an easy
angle to the right. This road
was rougher and his left wheels
bounced over a rock. The road
went sharply upward for a
hundred yards, climbing the
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vURDER in hot blood is an awful
thing 1T means that a man is
wrested from his normal course
. by forces beyond his control, as
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land, for a good rest,
His successor as head
of the national cabi-
net is Stanley Bald
win, the veteran lead
er of Conservatives
who has been serving
as lord president of
the council and in re-
atty has been a dep
uty prime m i n i S t e r
since the national gov
eminent was formed
seven years ago. Mr..
Macdonald EXCHANGES
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young men eager for the battle, put
with them were many white-haired
leaders of former trays whose enthu-
siasm and patriotism have survived
the years.
After pilgrimage to the New Salem
State park where the scenes of Lin
coins youth have been reconstructed,
the delegates assembled in the fair
grounds Coliseum and were welcomed
by George w. Bum of Springfield, gen.
eral chairman of the local committee.
Harrison f. Spangler of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, was installed as temporary
chairman and made speech in which
President Roosevelt was pilloried for
all manner of political and govern
mental sins, from killing six million
pigs and breaking campaign pledges
to violating the Constitution and at
tempting to set up a dictatorship. Mr..
Spangler then introduced the orator of
the day, Frank o. Lowden, former gov
ernor of Illinois and former aspirant
for the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation.
Mr.. Lowden, breaking political 81
lence of seven years, vigorously de-
nounced President Roosevelt'S proposal
to change the Constitution to fit the
New Deal and argued at length for
maintenance of the bill of rights un-
impaired. Here are few of his
trenchant sentences:
oil Of form of COW
eminent are being challenged in high
places"
mo crisis so grave as the present
has confronted the people since the
Civil war;"
eff an amendment can be used to
nullify decision of the Supreme court
upon fundamental matter in one case,
why can 1t not be employed in an
other?"
ANY attempt to rob America of its
liberties would revive the spirit of
'76"
There is no room on American soil
for the dictatorship of either the Fas-
cist or the proletariat type of gov
eminent"
THE preservation of the COnstitu-
ton; this is the supreme issue of the
hour"
At the Lincoln tomb later that day
there were impressive ceremonies and
eulogy of Lincoln by Former Secre-
tary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde
of Missouri. Then in the evening two
more notable addresses, by Mrs. George
B. Simmons of Marshall, Mo-, and John
d. NJ. Hamilton of Topeka, national
committeeman and permanent chair
man of the convention.
The second day of the conference
was devoted to speeches by Edward A.
Hayes of Decatur, ILL.,, former national
commander of the American Legion,
and r. G. Simmons of Lincoln, Neb.,
and the consideration and adoption of
a ringing set of resolutions. Not a
single boom was started openly, but,
of course, there was a lot of private
chatter about possibilities.
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7 ONG ago the President said he
~ was formulating special message
to congress on relief of the railways
and federal regulation of all forms of
transportation. This he finally sent in,
asking for the following legislation at
this session:
L. Amendment of the bankruptcy
act of 1888 to facilitate financial re-
organization of railways.
3 Regulation of air transport by
the interstate commerce commission.
8. Regulation of highway motor car
riers, provided for in bill passed by
the senate.
4. Regulation of intercoastal and
coastwise trade and some inland water
carriers.
5. Extension for one year of the of
fee of federal co-ordinator of transport
tation and of the emergency railroad
transportation act of 1888.
At the same time Joseph B. Eastman,
federal co-ordinator of transportation,
recommended to the railroads drastic
changes in rate structures, schedules
and types of equipment.
The changes, which Eastman termed
suggestions" were contained in re-
port which contains the findings of a
two-year survey and which emissions
a co-ordinated transportation system
including all forms of transport-rail.
water. motor truck. and pipe line.
Of outstanding interest was the sug-
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nounced at Tlentsin
by Col. Takashi Sakai,
chief of staff of the
Japanese troops in
North China. He said:
"Chiang Kai-shek,
using his financial
and military power
under the pretense of
uniting China, is act
ually corrupting and
disintegrating. North
China, which Chang
regards as a colony.
l.
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Tea Leaf Fortune Telling

If two tea stalks appear on the sur
face of cup of tea they are to be
placed on the back of the left hand
and struck with the back of the right ;
IL they remain unmoved on the left.
or adhere TO the right, then the one
loved will remain true; but If one adj
heres and the other not she win be
false.
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two Democrats, Pet
tingill of Indiana and
Huddleston of Ala
bama. In a senate
debate 1t was vigor-
ously attacked by Die
terich of Illinois, Dem
ocrat, and Hastings of
Delaware, Republican,
as an unconstitutional
scheme to destroy the
governments competi-
tors in the power bust
ness. Mr.. Dieterich
said 1t was his honest
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that "aH the king )
horses and all the
kings men" could
not put together
again, Washington
will gather up the
pieces of NRA and
try TO reconstruct
IS o m e t h in g a s
good" The process
may remind recon-
structors of the
boy who took his
watch apart. put It
together and proud
ly said TO his
friends, Not only
havo T mt ~ 20