Evening star., 1940-08-04
House Fight Due
On Senatorships
For District
Reed to Resist Move
To Restore Proviso
To Suffrage Bill

trage tUds folloDed by House Jn-
dietary Committee approval OF
Summers resolution for conSti-
tutional amendment empowering
Congress to grant District NO.
tto11ul representation and to
delegate legislative poDer to d
local government. Committee
limited proposed congressional
po,Der By amending resolution to
make permtsStue representation
In House. instead OF Congress,
thus preventing representation in
Senate. Original Summers reso-
luton introduced in Senate By
Chairman King OF Senate Dis
trict Committee.
House proponents Of national rep
resentation in both Houses of Con-
gress for voteless residents of the
District made prepara tions last night
to make a fight on the floor to re-
store to the Summers resolution the
provision allowing election of Senate
representatives.
The provision was removed from
the original Summers resolution by
the House Judiciary Committee be-
fore reporting it favorably Thurs
day, IA to 3.
Representative Reed, Republican,
of Illinois, who offered the amend
ment, said he had learned a move
was to be made to restore the reso-
| luton to its original form and said
he is prepared to resist" it.
At the same time, Senator Cap
per, Republican. of Kansas, long a
champion of national representa-
ton for the District, predicted the
House would approve the provision
to give the District the right to
have representatives. in the Senate
as we'll as the House.
Calls 1t DISCRIMINATORY.
Il am strong for the Summers
resolution in its original form" he
declared. Il don't think the reso-
luton with the Reed amendment is
fair. 1t has an element of discrim-
lnation. If the House refuses to
/ change the resolution back to its
original form, then we can make a
fight for it in the Senate"
| With the House in a weekend
recess Yesterday, no member could
! be found who would admit he was
ready to offer proposal to counter
act the Reed amendment. Several
members, however. said they be-
lleved Chairman Summers of the
Judiciary Committee would do it,
since it was his resolution.
Chairman Summers could not be
reached. 1t was reported he left
Washington for the week end.
Senate Unit to Meet.
Meantime, special subcomnit-
tee OF the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee planned to meet tomorrow to
decide definitely whether to start
public hearings on the original Sum
ners resolution now or await House
action.
Senator King, Democrat, Of
Utah, chairman of the special sub
committee, said:
The meeting will be brief. All
intend to find out from the mem
bers is whether they want to go
right ahead with hearings or wait
until the House acts on the Sum-
ners resolution"
/ The time for the meeting has not
been fixed, but Chairman King said
it probably would be held in the
afternoon. He explained the time
had not yet been fixed because he
had been unable to talk with sew
eral members who are not in WASH
ington
Representative Summers and SEN
ator King probably will hold con-
ference before the meeting.
Rules Committee Meeting Due.
The House Rules Committee. at
the request of Representative Sum-
ners, is expected to hold a special
meeting Tuesday at 1890 am. to
consider a proposal that a rule be
granted giving the amended Sum-
ners resolution a privileged status
so 1t can be acted on within 10 days.
Mr. Summers. however. has not vet
requested the committee meeting,
but is expected to do so when he
returns to Washington tomorrow.
House leaders are confident the
rule will be granted. Their views
are supported by poll of the COM
mittee which indicated the vote will
be practically unanimous.
Representative Reed, in an inter-
view yesterday. said
Il understand an attempt Is to
be made on the floor of the House
as soon as the Summers resolution
as amended is called up to amend
| (See SUFFRAGE PAGE A-20