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2, Survey Shows.
The final report of the unemploy
ment census here shows 37,615 persons
tqJSallv unemployed and 9,801 on Fed
eral' emergency work, for a total of
4^416.
These figures, based on the canvass
otthis past fall, were made public last
ntfeht by Administrator John D. Big
gfys. On the basis of an estimated
population of 627,000, it would mean
taut nearly 7 per cent of potential em
ployables in the District were jobless
or, dependent on some form of Gov
ernment support.
4n addition, there were 12,174 re
porting partial unemployment.
The unemployed were divided;
White, male, 8.480; female, 6.435; col
offd, male. 10.526; female, 12,093;
ether races, male, 52; female. 29.
-Of the partly unemployed, 4,610 were
white, and 7.537 colored. Of emer
gency workers these classifications
vafire, respectively. 4.615 and 5,167.
Unemployment was heaviest in the
20-24 age group, 7.144 persons being
njft of work. Next was 25-29. with
5.J15. The age groups run from 15 to
74 and in every group up to the 40-44
cJO-ss the unemployment was over the
4£00 mark. Between 40-44 it was
3^23, and from then on it graded
riqtwn.
-’''New workers" from 15 to 24 showed
3J646 totally unemployed and 479 on
emergency projects. Women domi
nated the jobless by approximately a
3-2 ratio, and males the emergency
rolls in practically the same propor
tion.
Vote Hearing
(Continued From First Page.)
lieved, however, that the local gov
ernment which Congress could estab
lish here under authority of the pro
vision would as nearly approach a
State government as is passible without
actually making the District an in
dependent State.
“Thus, with such a constitutional
amendment in effect, Congress would
no; be confronted, in granting powers
to a locally elected government, as
we hope it will, witl. the necessity of
rie'ermining what the courts them
selves seem unable to determine,
namely, the dividing line between
powers which are purely municipal
r»nd those which it must now consti
tutionally exercise as our State Leg
islature.
Gives Plebiscite Results.
7n giving the c immittee a summary
of the results in the suffrage plebiscite
of April 30 in which nearly 100,000
Wash ingtonians east ballots on the
questions of national and local suf
frage. Mr. Mondell said that 82,977
persons voted in favor of local self
RO' err.ment and 10.937 against, while
ffl.092 citizens favored national repre
sentation and 6.832 opposed it.
rMv. Finch, reading from a lengthy
statement, cited numerous arguments
to show' that citizens of the District
are entitled to full privileges,of self
government. |?
He declared the time must come
sooner or later when Congress and the
people of the District will find it nec
essary to plan jointly for the political
fll’ure of this fast-growing political
community and that therefore It
would be to the advantage of both to
know that neither Congress nor the
people would be hampered in the
proper solution of the problem by re
strictions which the Supreme Court
has placed upon the power Congress
may now exercise toward granting Dis
trict citizens “effective participation j
In rheir own local gvernoment.”
Would Broaden Powers.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment under the Lewis-Randolph
measure would not. he declared, in
teiiere with the discretion which Con
gress may exercise with regard to Dis
trict self government, but, on the
other hand, would give it a broader
fie: d in which to exercise discretion.
"Members of Congress,” Mr. Finch
stated, "could no longer say that they
are burdened with the details of
running our city government because
of any constitutional mandate, but
such burdens as might thereafter be
theirs would fall upon them through
their own choice, because of an un
willingness to let the people of this
Dlst rict run their own government.”
Mr. Finch expressed the belief that
the framers of the Constitution, in
giving Congress the power of ex
clusive legislation over the seat of
Government, had in mind some such
power as is proposed in section one of
the Lewis-Randolph joint resolution.
To support this belief, he referred
members of Congress to the oft-re
peated explanation of this power by
James Madison, partly as follows:
"'"The indispensable necessity of com
plete authority at the seat of gov
ernment carries its own evidence with
i£ It is a power exercised by every
legislature of the Union—I might
My of the world—by virtue of its gen
eral supremacy. Without it, not only
tfte public authority might be in
sulted and its proceedings interrupted
impunity, but a dependent of the
members of the general government
on the State comprehending the
55at of government, for protection
W) the exercise of their duty, might
Bring on the national councils an im
putation of awe or influence, equally
dishonorable to the government and
(^satisfactory to the other members
Of the confederacy.
” “This consideration has the more
weight, as the gradual accumulation
of public improvements at the sta
tionary residence of the Government
would be both too great a public pledge
to be left In the hands of a single state,
ftid^would create so many obstacles to
the Temoval of a Government as still
fiirtkher to abridge its necessary inde
jjtnjjence.”
* ^Congress Authority Supreme.
™Mr. Finch explained that this meant
*£mply that Congress was to have the
fijpreme authority at the seat of Gov
Enment to avoid any interference on
e part of any of the States. He ex
pressed the opinion that it would be
S keeping with the letter as well as
e spirit of Madison's explanation If
(Jongress should now, without consti
tutional amendment, give the District
k local republican form of government,
#b long as Congress retained supreme
authority.
Finch declared he was bul
Jrgrked in this belief by the rarely
publicized statement of Alexander
Hjj&ilton in the Federalist that citi
jjejgt at the seat of Government would
Iwvs the same interest in their Gov
Jjgjfhent as citizens of the several
^^Jan we conceive,” the witness
asked, "of a man of the genius of
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D. C. Suffrage Leaders Testify at Hearings
Wilbur S. Finch, chairman of the Citizens’ Conference on
District Suffrage, tells the House Judiciary Committee em
phatically that neither Madison nor Hamilton contemplated
depriving this city of the vote. Concentrating his justification
on local suffrage, Mr. Finch said Congress can constitutionally
set up a form of municipal government here comparable to
those in other United States communities.
William H. Mondell, chairman
of the Election Committee, puts
before the House group the re
sults of the plebiscite of April
30, shotting overwhelming sen
timent here in favor of both lo
cal and, national suffrage.
—Star Staff Photos.
Hamilton believing that one set of
citizens would have the same interest
in a government as another set when
the first group, by the very document
he was instrumental in drafting, was
made a political outcast? The ques
tion on its face shows its own ab
surdity.”
When Mr. Finch announced that
he would like to make some •‘old-fash
ioned'' observations regarding democ
racy, Chairman Sumners remarked:
“Well, we are pretty modern here,
but go ahead anyway.”
The chairman joined in the general
laughter.
Mr. Finch, in reverting to Madison’s
quoted statement, explained that
Madison was answering some objec
tions which had been raised in New
York against the adoption of the Con
stitution by that State and which
“seemed to anticipate the very situ
ation in which we of the District now
find ourselves.”
Sought to Calm Opponents.
He’said Madison sought to calm the
fears of his opponents by telling them
that "as it (the Federal districti is to
be appropriated to this use with the
consent of the State ceding it: as the
State will no doubt provide in the com
pact for the right and the consent of
the citizens inhabiting it: as the inhab
itants will find sufficient inducements
of interest to become willing parties to
the cession: as they will have had their
voice in the election of the government
which is to exercise authority over
them: as a municipal Legislature for
local purposes, derived from their own
suffrages, will, of course, be allowed
them, and as the authority of the Leg
islature of the State and of the inhab
itants of the ceded part of it, to concur
in the cession, will be derived from the
whole people of the State, in their
adoption of the constitution, every
imaginable objection seems to be ob
viated.”
Mr. Finch held that this statement
showed a firm belief on Madison's
part that the Constitution had made
adequate provision for protection of
the political rights of those who were
to reside at the seat of Government,
notwithstanding that Congress was to
have the power of exclusive legisla
tion over it.
The witness called the attention of the
hearing to the radio address last Mon
day night of Theodore W. Noyes,
chairman of the Citizens’ Joint Com
mittee, in ijhich Mr. Noyes pointed
out that the Constitution makers were
engaged in a desperate struggle to
create a union and were uncertain
from day to day whether their efforts
would succeed and that it was not sur
prising, therefore, that they did not
concern themselves with all of the
details regarding voting rights of a
possible future population occupying
a possible future seat of government
of a possible future republic.
Must Look Beyond Constitution.
“I believe it is only fair to the
founding fathers and to those of us
who must live here at the seat of
Government,” Mr. Finch declared, “to
interpret the congressional power
of exclusive legislation over the seat
Government as a curtailment of our
political rights only in so far as neces
sary in the interest of the superior
public necessity which motivated its
inclusion in the Constitution.
“The founding fathers knew that
the right to a share in the making of
laws, its ancillary right of self-taxa
tion and all other rights of American
citizens—such as the right of trial by
jury, the right of petition, the right
of all men to be dealt with equally
before the law and. so on—did not
originate in America and therefore
not in the Constitution of the United
States, but was a heritage of the whole
English-speaking race; that to find
the true foundations of the political
system of which they were a part we
must look beyond the .Constitution,
beyond the Declaration of Independ
ence, even beyond the coming of the
Mayflower to Plymouth; that the
privileges of free citizens, as estab
lished by Magna Charta, the Bill
of Rights, the Habeas Corpus Act
and by the whole fabric of the common I
law were the patrimony of the Ameri
can colonist from the outset; that the
colonists brought these privileges
across the Atlantic with them. Just
as they brought the English language;
that by migrating to America they
lost none of the rights and liberties
which they possessed at home; that
they did not therefore create anew but
brought with them the political tradi
tions upon which a free Government
could be set up "
He declared that Madison and his
colleagues also knew that the systems
of local self government which the
American colonists had set up by
virtue of their inherited rights seem
to be “a part of the very nature of
the race to which we belong.”
Mr. Finch quoted a resolution of the
First Continental Congress of 1774
declaring that "the foundation of
English liberty and of all free govern
ment is a right in the people to par
ticipate in their legislative council,”
and that the people "are entitled to a
free and exclusive power of legislation
in their several provincial legislatures,
where their right of representation can
alone be preserved in all cases of tax
’ ation and internal policy, subject only
I to the negative of their sovereign in
■ such manner as has heretofore been
used and accustomed.”
The Declaration of Independenc
was also quoted by the witness in sup
port of his arguments for local self
expression.
Must Rely on Congress.
Mr. Pinch said citizens of the Dis
trict must ‘‘bow in reverence to the
dictum of our Supreme Court and ad
mit that we are, by reason of our resi
dence. at the very heart of the world’s
democracy, completely impotent from
a political point of view.”
He said the citizens of Washington
must rely on Congress to assist them
in placing into the Constitution a pro
vision ''which would afford us the op
portunity of securing those political
privileges which I believe we, as Amer
ican citizens, are already justly en
titled to enjoy.”
He quoted a member of Congress as
saying in 1878: "The fact that Con
gress may, if it will, play the petty
part of a city council does not make
it either necessary or right to do so.
The fact that it may. if It will, dis
franchise the people is no justification
for doing so. They have an inalien
able right to the freest, most popular
form of municipal organization com
patible with the safety of life and
property, with the preservation of good
order and the security of the national
property which is here. For us to give
them less will be false to the most
fundamental principles of American
liberty."
Mr. Pinch was questioned at some
length by members of the committee
after he had completed making his
formal statement.
Favors Amendment.
In response to several questions, Mr.
Pinch expressed the opinion that the
only satisfactory method of achieving
a republican form of government for
the District was by constitutional
amendment. Chairman Sumners askei
if after passage of such an amendment
Congress would be able to abolish i
local form of government, once it hai
been set up. Mr. Finch expressed th
opinion that Congress at any tim
could undo whatever it had done b;
authority of the amendment. Th
amendment. It was explained, wouli
merely increase the power of Con
gress to delegate powers to a Distric
government.
Mr. Lesh agreed with Mr. Finch tha
congressional action with regard t
local self-government would be rev
ocable.
Another committee question had t
do with the possibility of ceding par
of the District of Columbia back t
Maryland, with a view to giving Dis
trict citizens the vote through tha
procedure. Mr. Finch pointed ou
that a member of the Maryland dele
gation in Congress was quoted recent 1
as objecting to such a plan on th
grounds that the Federal Governmer'
would retain “the cream of the Dis
trict.”
Doubts Power of Congress.
Chairman Sumners inquired regard
ing Supreme Court decisions with re
spect to granting of suffrage to th
District, asking if Congress has th
power now to set up a new form c
government in Washington. Mr. Fine
said he seriously doubted if this powe
existed in view of a Supreme Coui
decision of 1889, in which considers
tion was given to an act of territory
legislation here. He did not elaborat
on this decision.
“Does Congress have the power <
delegation now?" asked Representatn
Michener. Republican, of Michigan.
“I don't think so,’’ replied Mr. Find
“The Supreme Court has placed
] technical restriction on congressiom
i delegation of power and I think
I constitutional amendment would t
i necessary.”
I Mr. Michener, in questioning M
Mondell regarding the recent plebiscite
asked if there was any "propaganda
in opposition to suffrage in connectio
with the referendum. The Reprt
sentative commented that all of th
newspaper publicity seemed to hav
been favorable.
Mr. Mondell said there was a con
siderable amount of literature dis
tributed in opposition to suffrage, bi
he expressed the belief that there wa
no organized opposition, because th
people here want the vote.
Many Problems Cited.
Mr. Waldrop submitted to the com
mlttee "corroborating evidence t
demonstrate the inoperativeness of th
District of Columbia government." H
read from a calendar record showin
the large amount of business con
ducted by the District committees o
the House and Senate and went int
some detail to demonstrate the mlnut
problems with which Congress i
bothered in administering the muni
cipal government. He pointed ou
that some members of Congress hav
expressed themselves as disliking serv
ice on District committees.
Chairman Ross Collins of the sub
committee of the House appropria
tlons committee dealing with the ;
District was quoted by the witness as i
saying he would “rather have the itch
than to be the chairman of that
committee.”
Mr. Waldrop quoted at length from
the so-called Jacobs report on fiscal
relations between the Federal and
local governments to demonstrate the
"ability” of this city to pay for its
own government
The worst feature of the local gov
ernment, as shown in this report, he
said, was public health administra
tion, which could be greatly improved,
he said, "if we had control over our
own appropriations.”
Even though Congress intended the
District of Columbia to participate in
benefits of the Wagner Housing Act,
Mr. Waldrop said an omission of law
had made this benefit impossible and
resulted in a new request to Congress
to correct the deficiency. He pointed
this out as an example of “our anom
alous position.”
Ayers Open* Opposition.
Mr. Ayers, who opened for the op
position, spoke briefly and introduced
Mrs. Pryse. Mrs. Pryse concluded her
arguments and Mr. Ayres will resume
tomorrow morning. He told Chairman
Sumners he would like to have an
hour and a half in view of the time
already allowed proponements of suf
frage. Chairman Sumners, however,
suggested that all witnesses tomorrow
condense their statements so the state
ments may be concluded then.
Both Mr. Ayres and Mrs. Pryse com
plained that the press of Washing
ton—The Star in particular—had con
sistently given more space in favor of i
suffrage than against it.
Mrs. Pryse charged that proponents
had shown an unwillingness to debate
the issue. If equal news space and
radio time had been given the oppo
sition, she said, the result of the recent
referendum which was overwhelm
ingly in favor of suffrage, “would have
been entirely different.”
Mrs. Pryse filed with the Judiciary
Committee the minority report signed
by herself, opposing national repre
* | sentation, in the District of Columbia
• Federation of Women's Clubs, of which
1 ; she is legislative chairman. She ex- 1
1 plained that the question of national j
■ i representation had come to a vote in
?: the District of Columbia Federation
' : of Women's Clubs and that they had ;
J i voted 35 in favor of national repre- |
I . sentation and 17 against. When this
‘ j result was forwarded to the General!
II Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs.
Pryse said, the General Federation re- j
1 ported that because of her strong '
3 minority report it did not feel it could !
take favorable action on national rep- i
resentation.
Her own club, the Marietta Women's \
c Club, she said, had voted 2 to 1 against j
3 national representation.
t Income Tax Built I'p.
t Mrs. Pryse charged that the Internal j
. Revenue Bureau had notified members
y. of Congress to file their income tax
P returns in the local district here with
t its headquarters in Baltimore. She
_ claimed this bu.lt up the income tax
| return for the District of Columbia
! unduly, because the members of Con- ]
' gress should have filed at home.
" i In conclusion Mrs. Pryse said:
"If suffrage is granted to the Dis- 1
- trict of Columbia it would only be
L“ another pain in the neck to Congress. ,
1 I insist that we already have repre- |
1 sentation, that of the whole Congress
I of the United States. I would rather
{ place the administration of this Fed
• ; eral City in the hands of 435 Congress- j
II men and 96 Senators than in those of j
B half a dozen local politicians.
"Washington is one of the best gov
lf emed cities in the world. Through the !
e interest of Congress and the spending
of hundreds of millions of Federal i
l- funds, it is fast becoming the mast J
8 beautiful city in the world. Why:
I tinker with something that is almost
8 ideal?
e "I submit, gentlemen, that if the
i Federal Government were not located
• i here Washington would be no more
> than a mere village on the Potomac."
" | Mr. Lesh, vice chairman of the
II Citizens' Joint Committee, stressed the
■ | cause of national representation at the
e opening session of the hearing yester
e : day. District Commissioner George i
! E. Allen, who Is chairman of the ;
• ! Committee on Congressional Hearings ‘
" j of the Citizens' Joint Committee, |
t j launched the fight, with a stirring plea
s for District suffrage.
e “Irrevocable” Question Raised.
During his comprehensive argument.
Mr. Lesh was pressed by Chairman
■ Sumners on the point of whether
> grants of suffrage in the pending joint
- resolution were "irrevocable.” The
- chairman said he thought there might
5 be "more difficulty” in getting through
■ Congress an "irrevocable provision”
f than if the "power of control were left
5 in the hands of Congress."
: In response, Mr. Lesh told the com
5 mittee that in his opinion the pending
' legislation would give Congress the
“ power to revoke local suffrage, but he
1 insisted “I don't want to advocate
rational representation with any Idea
)f taking it away.”
But even in granting national repre
sentation, Mr. Lesh explained, if the
imendment to the Constitution should
se adopted, by requisite number of
State Legislatures, it would still be
left in the hands of Congress to take
final action to effectuate national
representation. He insisted, however,
when pressed concerning local suffrage,
he was not hostile to the local suffrage
provision in the Lewis-Randolph joint
resolution, but left discussion of it to
Mr. Finch.
When asked what the District of
Columbia would lack in statehood if
both local and national suffrage were
granted, Mr. Lesh declared that here
“Congress still would have overriding
powers.”
Cites Amendment Power.
Congressional powJf over municipal
suffrage could not be delegated, Mr.
Lesh declared, without the adoption
of a constitutional amendment, such
as provided by the Lewis-Randolph
resolution.
No indication ever was given by the
‘‘founding fathers” of the country, Mr.
Lesh declared, to indicate they in
tended to deprive residents of the
National Capital of suffrage. Both
Washington and Madison were quoted
as envisioning a great metropolis at i
the National Capital.
Nothing in the proposal of national j
representation could be interpreted, j
Mr. Lesh said, as in conflict with the
idea that the National Capital should
be a "home or workshop for the
Federal Government.”
Chairman Sumners indicated that
the Judiciary Committee was already
“sold” on the intelligence, and ability
of people here to govern themselves,
and on the fact that they paid
sufficient taxes to the Federal Govern
ment.
‘OLD-TIMERS’ PRESENT I
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
Former Judge James A. Cobb last
night presided at an "old timers”
benefit show at Armstrong High School
for the Twelfth Street Young Men’s
Christian Association.
Perry W. Howard was interlocutor,
with Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, Dr. Wil
liam H. Greene, George H. Murray and
J. F. N. Wilkinson as end men.
A minstrel quintet, composed of Col.
West A. Hamilton, Lt. L. A. Oxley,
Capt. L. R. Mehlinger and Drs. Mar
shall and Greene, provided music, with
a chorus that included Jesse R. Mitch
ell, Thomas W. Parks, Dr. H. H. Long,
W. T. Grady. L. H. Foster, Harry O.
Atwood. W. O. Claytor, J. R. Pinkett,
H. A. Fisher, F. M. Robinson and Dr.
E. B. Henderson.
M. Grant Lucas recited Aesop's
Fables in Italian and Cicero's oration
against Cataline.
AVIATION CLUB TO MEET
Y. M. C. A. Group to Be Given
Flying Lessons.
The first meeting of a newly-organ
ized "Aviation Club.” under auspices I
of the Central Young Men’s Christian
Association, will be held at 8 o’clock
tonight in the Central "Y” Building,
1736 G street N.W.
The club is for Y. M. C. A. members
only. There will be a series of six
free lessons in ground instruction in
aviation. "Bob” Aehburn and "Fritz”
Compton of the Beacon Airport, near
Alexandria, Va.. will be the instruc
tors. F. K. McTyier of the Y. M. C. A.
staff is in charge of the club.
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LETTER BOLSTERS
Civil Service Asks Rights for
Federal Employes in
Greenbelt, Md.
Arguments for District suffrage be
fore the House Judiciary Committee
today were bolstered vigorously by a
letter from the Chdl Service Commis
sion declaring that Government em
ployes in Greenbelt, Md., ‘‘should be
permitted a voice in their self-govern
ment.”
The letter was introduced into the
record by Paul E. Lesh, vice chair
man of the Citizens’ Joint Committee
on National Representation. It sup
plemented Mr. Lesh’s presentation
yesterday of a claim that ‘‘it is equal
ly convenient for a person working in
the District of Columbia in the Gov
ernment or other employment to re
side in nearby Virginia or Maryland
as in the suburban portion of the Dis
trict of Columbia.”
Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary
Committee had raised the point that
the District of Columbia should be
considered a work shop for the Fed
erad Government and one of the fea
tures of such a work shop would be
that the Government worker should
be allowed to reside conveniently close
to his work.
Letter Signed by Mover.
The Civil Service Commission letter
was inserted in the record without the
name of the Government agency to
which it was addressed. The date
and file number also were deleted. It
was signed by L. A. Moyer, chief ex
aminer of the District.
"The civil service rules provide,”
declared Mr. Moyer, “that classified
employes shall take no active part in
political management or in political
campaigns beyond the exercise of their
right to vote and to express privately
their opinions on political subjects.
''However, certain exceptions to
this rule have been made in con
nection with Government employes
resident in certain incorporated
municipalities near the District of
Columbia and of Arlington Coun
ty, Va.. such exception being based
upon the fact that a considerable
proportion of the population of these
towns and of Arlington County is
employed in the Government service
and should be permitted a voice in
self-government.
Exception Asked.
“The commission has, accordingly,
considered the question of extending
this exception to residents of Green
belt and has found that, because of
the fact that a large number of res
idents of Greenbelt will, when the
town is fully occupied, be classified
civil service employes, it will be proper
to extend the exception to the rule to
include Greenbelt.
“It is to be understood.” continued
the letter, “that permissible political
activity on the part of classified em
ployes resident In Greenbelt will be
confined to participation in non-parti
san local municipal elections only, or to
the holding of local municipal public
office. The ruling of the commission
is not intended to confer the right on
such employes to engage in county.
State or national partisan politics In
contravention of the general political
activity rule.”
The commission’s expression in this
regard on the right of Government
employes to participate in self-govern
ment was interpreted by Mr. Lesh as
particularly pertinent because of the
fact that Greenbelt is a Government
project.
FIREMEN CHANGE LAWS
Arlington Body Extends Its
Benefits—Banner Awarded.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va„ May 19.—By
laws of the Arlington County Fire
men's Association were amended last
night to provide for accident and
death benefits to apply to injuries
and deaths occurring during fire drills
as well as fires.
Cherrydale Fire Company No. S
was awarded the 1937 banner for best
attendance. The banner will be pre
sented at the association's meeting
on June 21
It was announced that the associa
tion's annual banquet will be held in
the fall this year, instead of during
the summer months.
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