CONTENTS Aitchison, Dr. David, the Anglo-Saxon Society, Takoma Park, Md.. Atherholt, Gordon M., Northwest Council Citizens Association and Palisades Citizens Association, Washington, D. C.---. Beaver, Mrs. C. T., District Chapter of the Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, All Souls' Church.. Beter, Peter, chairman, Home Rule Committee, Young Republicans Club of the District of Columbia....... Case, Hon. Francis, a United States Senator from the State of South Dakota; accompanied by Robert C. Albrook, assistant, and Gerhard Van Arkel, counsel of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and secretary of the Democratic Central Committee of Chamberlain, Culver B., suffrage chairman, Washington Chapter, Colladay, Edward F., general counsel, Washington Board of Trade.. Cutler, Lloyd N., Washington Home Rule Committee.. Darrin, David, Washington, D. C.. Dawson, Dr. Giles E., first vice president of the Connecticut Avenue Page 145 226 217 Howard, Clinton N., superintendent of the International_Reform Federation and editor of Progress Magazine, Washington, D. C. 164, 182 Lane, Michael J., Southeast Businessmen's Association_ Leonard, Mrs. Robert F., first ice president, League of Women Voters Lusk, Rufus S., president, Washington Taxpayers Association_- Spiro, Grace M., executive secretary, Washington Chapter, Americans for Democratic Action; accompanied by James White Sylvester, Paul, Greater Washington Area Council, American Veter- 208 Tavenner, Frank, Young Democratic Clubs of Washington_. Watts, Glenn E., president, District of Columbia Industrial Union 159 Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by- Allen, Hon. John J., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of California, findings developed re elections of runoff elec- Atherholt, Gordon M., Northwest Council Citizens Association and Nine resolutions passed by the Council.. Statute Making-a treatise on the means and methods for the Case, Hon. Francis, United States Senator from the State of South Excerpt from Senate committee report_ Excerpt from Senate District Committee hearings of August 1, Memorandum from Edward F. Colloday, February 1948 Memorandum on the position of the Washington Board of Trade on home rule, prepared by Robert C. Albrook, assistant to Colloday, Edward F., general counsel, Washington Board of Trade: Editorial from the Washington Star, July 27, 1951-Voting Is Editorial from the Washington Star, January 19, 1952-Body Page 124-127 Editorial from the Washington Star, January 26, 1952-Home Editorial from the Washington Times-Herald, July 26, 1951- 74 Excerpts from S. 1976.... 65 Excerpt from Senate committee report on S. 1976. 65 Results of the three home rule surveys, Washington Board of 61 Washington Board of Trade home rule survey, February 1952 59 Cutler, Lloyd N., Washington Home Rule Committee, excerpt from Letter to Judiciary Subcommittee, District of Columbia Com- 225 Press release, March 11, 1952. 225 Hawes, Alexander B., president, Central Suffrage Conference of the District of Columbia Home Rule Is Favored by 77 Percent Excerpt from amendment of Senator Saltonstall_ 201 Excerpt from certificate of incorporation 201 Excerpts from memorandum submitted to the committee by 197 Loaded questionnaire, printed in the Washington Post, Febru- Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-Continued Howard, Clinton N., superintendent of the International Reform Federation and editor of Progress Magazine, Washington, D. C., McKee, Jerome B., immediate past president, Federation of Business- Excerpt from act ratifying the cession by the State of Maryland, 172 Excerpt from Reorganization Act of 1820.- 175 Further retrocession of Battery Cove in Virginia, February 23, 172 Section 2 of the Act of Cession from the State of Virginia, De- McMillan, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the Newell, Clifford H., Federation of Citizens Associations, The Wash- Statement of Etta L. Taggart, chairman, suffrage committee, Federation of Citizens Associations_ Statement on behalf of the Washingtonians for Etta L. Taggart_ Preller, C. F., president, Washington Central Labor Union, Wash- 172 158 53 Watts, Glenn É., president, District of Columbia Industrial Union 160 The Judiciary Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:40 a. m., in room 445, House Office Building, Hon. Oren Harris, chairman of Present: Representatives Harris, Abernethy, Teague, Redden, Auch- Mr. HARRIS. May we come to order. This morning the subcom- mittee has met to take up the proposed legislation, S. 1976; and I as- sume we have before us for consideration other bills that might be be- fore the House in connection with home rule for the District of I do not know at the moment just how many other bills are pend- ing, but I do know that one member of this subcommittee has a bill But the purpose of the meeting this morning is to take up the bill [S. 1976, 82d Cong., 2d sess.] AN ACT To provide for home rule in the District of Columbia Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 1 |