Evening star., 1936-06-26
MOTION CARRIED
WITHOUT DEBATE
Delegate Marshall Obtains
Action, Though Plank
Is Not Included.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 26.-
The Democratic National Convention
last night adopted resolution urging
Congress to make study OF the DIS
trict's plea for suffrage.
The motion was made by Delegate
George P. Marshall, Washington busi-
ness man, who also fought for the
granting of national representation
to the residents of the District at the
Chicago convention of the Demo-
Gratis four years ago.
Although the Districts national
representation plank was not included
in the party platform adopted earlier
in the evening, the separate resolution
places the convention on record as
favoring an inquiry into the subject
by the national law making body,
which governs the District.
Shortly after the platform had
been adopted, Permanent Chairman
Robinson recognized Mr.. Marshall,
who made the following motion:
Committee Is Favored.
Resolved that it is the sense of
this convention that a committee
should be appointed by the Congress
of the United States to make a study
of and report on the granting to the
residents of the District of Columbia
the right of suffrage"
The motion was carried without
debate. AS soon as it had become
known that the Platform Committee
would not refer to the plea of voteless
Washington in its report to the con-
vention, Secretary of Commerce Dan
iel c. Roper, who was the District S
member on the Platform Committee
announced that the local delegation
would continue its efforts to obtain
some separate expression of opinion
from the convention on the question.
After conference with District Com
missioner George C. Allen. Mr.. Mar
shall was designated to present the
subject to the convention.
The action of the convention was
the sequel to vigorous campaign car
ried on by the District delegation
during the past four days to impress
on the visiting delegates and on their
people back home that more than
$4,000 Americans at the seat of Gov
ernment have no voice in Congress
and no vote for President and Vice
President
The delegation. which is headed by
United States Marshal John B. Col
poys, selected Commissioner Allen to
direct the national representation
demonstration. and he did it in a big
way.
Another Tea Party.
Bringing to the convention city a
band of 25 real Indians, who have
been camping recently on the banks
staged another Boston tea party to
emphasize the fact that taxation
without representation still prevails
in Washington, 160 years after the
colonists rebelled against the same
condition
Instead of dumping tea overheard,
however, the Indians distributed it to
the delegates and visitors in small
packages bearing a brief appeal for
national representation for District
residents. BY staging war dance on
the streets and in hotel lobbies the
Indians carried Washington's appeal
to all of the thousands of visitors
from the four corners of the country.
The question also went out to the
country by radio when Commissioner
Allen and Representative Norton of
New Jersey presented the arguments
in support of national representation
to the Platform Committee Wednes-
day. Mrs. Norton is chairman of the
House District Committee and co-au-
thor of the joint resolution for consti-
tutional amendment that would en-
power Congress to grant the District
voting representation in the House and
Senate and the right to ballot for
President and Vice President.