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and Wherry Of Nebraska, all Repub-
licans.
Probably favoring-Senators An
drews, Democrat, of Florida, and
Revercomb, Republican, of West
Virginia.
Opposed-Senators McCarran OF
Nevada and EaStland of Mississippi
both Democrats.
Observation-Disclosures Wheeler
of Montana, Mcfarland of Arizona
and Murdock of Utah, all Demo-
Gratis, and Moore, Republican, OF
Oklahoma.
Andrews to Be Absent.
Advance prospects were that only
one member, Senator Andrews,
would be absent from the session.
He is ill. but may vote by proxy,
as suffrage proponents last week
urged him to do.
Only once before, in l941, has q
resolution designed to grant the Dis
trict national representation reached
the Senate. but the Judiciary Com
mittee reported the measure unfav-
orably.
A similar act once reached the
House floor with a favorable report
but there it was blocked by the Rules
Committee.
The Sumners-Capper resolution
provides for an amendment to the
Constitution which would empower
Congress to grant the District not
only such representation as it sees
| fit in Congress but also among the
presidential electors.
Same Measure in House.
The same measure is before the
House Judiciary Committee, which
last May refused favorable report
by vote of to 7, possibly Influenced
by a Senate companion committee's
stand in refusing to consider amend
ing the Constitution in wartime.
Should the measure pass both
Senate and House, a two-third;
vote of Congress and ratification
by three-fourths Of the States re-
main before it would become effec-
tive.
AS time for Senate Judiciary
Committee action approached, cam
paign efforts Of the suffrage ad-
vocates continued. Yesterday q
delegation carried a crepe-envelope
ballot box, bearing the inscription
THE People Have Spoken" to the
Capitol. Purpose Of the stunt, they
said, was to emphasize the result
of an unofficial suffrage referendum
held in 1888.
A legal technicality prevented the
group from having the box photo
graphed on the Capitol steps and
the display was moved to the Su-
preme Court building for the photo
graph.
More than $1,000 voters" cast
ballots in this referendum, 1t was
explained, registering 13-to-1 ma
jority in favor of national represen-
tation for the District.
Boston Tea Party Planned.
The delegation consisted of Mr.
Beattie, Mrs. Gordon Balm, Mrs
Milton Dunn and Austin L. Flick
ling, who represented Ave organiza-
tions supporting the Sumners-Cap-
per resolution.
Today, at 3 pm, the Central
Suffrage Conference plans mock
Boston Tea Party" to call atten-
ton to the Districts plight in being
taxed without representation. The
affair will be staged at the Wilson
Line pier at Seventh street and
Maine avenue S.W.
Speeches in favor of the Sum-
ners-Capper measure yesterday
included statement by Senator
Hatch, chairman of the Senate Ju-
dietary Subcommittee which re-
ported the bill favorably to the full
committee, that he saw indications
that it would be favorably reported
to the Senate"
"It involves a matter of funda-
mental American rights" Mr.. Hatch
declared "The recent hearings on
the measure should have dispelled
any doubts about its worth"
Opposition Is Voiced.
In a statement thanking the 81
organizations and nearly 1000 indi-
viduals who have participated in
the current suffrage campaign, Mr..