Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-31
Andrews Proxy
Soughton
D. {. Suffrage
Union Council Asks
Support Of Senate
Committee Members

Central Suffrage Conference lead
ers today announced determination
to ask second member of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee to vote IA
vorably by proxy on the Summers
Capper resolution after hackers of
the District national representation
measures were told that Senator
Andrews, Democrat, of Florida,
probably will be absent Monday
when the measure is scheduled for
committee consideration.
Advised by a secretary that the
Senator may be absent because of
i'll health, delegation representing
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations promptly urged that he give
his proxy to another committee
member, and were assured the mat
ter would be brought to Senator
Andrews attention.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, was asked on Tuesday
to make his proxy available as the
group pressed its efforts to secure
the majority of the 17-member
committee necessary to bring the
Sumners-Capper resolution to the
Senate floor
Other Proxies to Be Sought.
James S. Beattie, chairman of the
Suffrage Conferences National Rep
resentation Committee, also an
nounced plans today to canvass all
members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee on Saturday with the
idea of seeking the proxy of any
and all who will not be present
when the Sumners-Capper measure
comes up for consideration.
At the same time, MIR. Beattie said
that no response had as yet been
received from Senator O'Mahoney.
but expressed confidence that an
answer would be forthcoming from
both Senators on so vital a matter.
The CLIO delegation at the Capitol
today was led by Robert Sherman,
president of the Washington Indus
trial Council, CLIO. The group was
able to see in person only Senator
Stanflll, Republican, of Kentucky,
who reiterated his inclination to
vote out the Summers Capper reso-
luton favorably. However, the
group called on secretaries of six
other Judiciary Committee men,
bers with varying results.
That the efforts of groups which
had visited Judiciary Committee
members during the past fortnight
have not been unavailing,, however,
was seen by the delegation, which
reported that the secretary to Sem
ator -Kilgore, Democrat, of West
Virginia had told them: ~
We've been lobbied to death"
More Calls on Senators Urged.
!, MIR. Sherman expressed the opin-
ion that the practice of calling on
die Senators should be, continued
by all organizations in Washington
as one of the effective means of
placing the desires of the people for
suffrage before them"
Besides Mr.. Sherman, those in
the delegation were Mrs. Gerald
Alter, representing the United Fed
aal Workers of America; Melbourns
B. Mitchell, business agent of Local
No. of the UFWA, and Oliver T.
Palmer and Mrs. Gertrude Evans,
vice president and executive secre-
tary, respectively, of the Industrial
Union Council.
It was announced that Washing
ton I. Cleveland, manager of the
local Office of the American Auto
mobile Association, will lead a dele
cation from the Washington Board
of Trade to Capitol Hill tomorrow
for the same purpose.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Beattie made a
written appeal to members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee to re-
port out the Sumners-Capper reso-
luton.
"Considerate" of Congress.
The Summers Capper measure,
which would amend the Constitu-
ton to enable Congress to grant
the District representation in Con-
gress and the electoral college, is
very "considerate" of the National
Legislature, Mr.. Beattie declared,
since it "gives you the entire say
as to just what type or degree of
elf-government the District should
enjoy"
Offering "the 80-odd local civic,
professional and labor groups which
have fought for the franchise for
so many years" as a testament of
the Districts determination for the
vote, Mr. Beattie added that as
recent Navy discharge himself he
felt qualified to give assurance of
the fact that 10000 District vet
Grams are solidly behind this fight
to enfranchise their home town"
Representatives of church and
business groups last night continued
the series of radio appeals designed
to further the cause of suffrage.
Speaking over WWDC, the Rev.
Francis McPeek, speaking for the
Washington Federation of Churches,
declared the federation was square
ly behind" the Summers apper
resolution, and promised that the
group would devote its efforts toward
securing passage of the measure.
Ir another address, B. M. Nc
Kelway, president of the Washing
ton Board of Trade, reviewed past
efforts to secure the franchise here