Evening star., 1940-11-26
Society Of Natives.
Asks Representation
Action Next Session
Resolution Coils for
Reintroduction of
Summers Resolution

Favorable action by the next Con-
gress on the Summers resolution for
national representation was urged
In a resolution passed last night
at q meeting of the Society CT Ma
tives at the Arts Club, 2017 I street
NV.
The resolution, which was intro
duced by Robert L. Bradshaw, fol-
lows:
whereas the Society of Natives
Of the District of Columbia has
from the day of its organization
supported the proposal to amend
the Constitution of the United
States so as to empower the Con-
grsss to grant to the people of the
District OF Columbia voting rep
resentation in the Senate and House
of Representatives and among the
electors of President and Vice Presi-
dent, as we'll as the right to sue
and be sued in the courts of the
United States; and
whereas the Democratic Ma
tional Convention at Chicago in
cluded in its 1910 national party
platform the following plank: We
also favor the extension of the right
of suffrage to the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia; and
Cites Support in Congress.
whereas the party leaders and
many members of both parties in
both the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives have through interviews
In the press and by other means
declared their support of these pro-
posals to Americanize the Washing
tonians and thus permit them to
participate with other Americans in
the councils of the Nation: There
fore be it
Resolved by the Society of Ma
tives of the District of Columbia in
meeting assembled this 25th day of
November, 1910:
81. That we congratulate the
members of the District of Columbia
delegation to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention for their success
In obtaining the adoption of the
District of Columbia suffrage plank
in the 1910 platform-the first time
any such plank was inserted in the
national platform of any political
party-and to express to them the
sincere hope that the local Demo-
cratic organization will see to it that
this platform pledge is kept.
"2. That we call upon the leaders
OF both the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties in both houses of Con-
gress to take early and favorable
action on the proposed constitutional
amendment in the approaching ses-
sion of the Seventy-seventh Con-
gress, so that it may be submitted
to the States and ratified and the
people of the District of Columbia
be enabled to vote in the next ma
tional election.
Favors Original Form.
"3. That we favor the proposal
known as the Summers amendment
(House joint resolution 257, Seventy
sixth Congress, in its original form)
and we pledge to the Citizens Joint
Committee on District of Columbia
National representation, of which
our honored member, Theodore w.
Noyes, is chairman, our continued
and hearty support in favor of that
proposal.
Resolved further, That the presi-
dent of the society be, and he Is
hereby authorized and directed to,
In the name Of the society, petition
the House and Senate of the Seven
ty-seventh Congress for the passage
Of the Summers resolution, and such
petition be filed as soon as it shall
be introduced"
Following the business meeting a
program of entertainment was pre-
sented, with Mrs. Erna Embrey, So
prano, and Mrs Jewell Downs, ac-
companist. The Entertainment
Committee, headed by Miss Florence
E. Thompson, also arranged the
presentation of several motion pic
lures on the assembly of an auto
mobile and on Yellowstone National
Park.
New members voted in the society
were Miss Lille B. Dowrick, Miss
Eva A. Trede, Miss Isabel Rives,
8. M. Ely, jr., and William E. How
ard, Hyattsville, Md. John M. How
ard, president, presided over the
meeting.