Question No. 1: You have just read the major provisions of the Kefauver bill, S. 1527. Do you favor its adoption?

Question No. 2: If you answered "yes" in question No. 1 would you oppose this bill if it meant a lower Federal payment? Or, would you favor this bill regardless of the effect upon the Federal payment?

Question No. 3: Do you think persons now voting in other States and Territories should be allowed to vote in the District of Columbia for: (a) District Council members? (b) The District to incur debt?

Question No. 4: Under the present system, the Board of Education is appointed.
The Kefauver bill proposes it be elected.
Education?

Do you favor election of the Board of

Question No. 5: Do you think "local suffrage" without representation in Congress is

desirable?

Question No. 6: Do you believe this bill provides "real home rule" for the District of

Question No. 7: Do you live in the District of Columbia? Maryland? Virginia?

Total..

District of Columbia.

Maryland.

Virginia.

Question No. 8: If you live in the District, how long have you lived here?

2,356

1, 552

561 243

Question No. 9: If you live in Maryland or Virginia, is your business located in the District? Do you own property in the District?

WASHINGTON Board of TraDE, HOME RULE SURVEY, JULY 1949-PERCENTAGE BREAK-DOWN

Question No. 1: You have just read the major provisions of the Kefauver bill Do you favor its adoption?

S. 1527.

Question No. 2: If you answered "Yes" to question No. 1, would you oppose this bill if it meant a lower Federal payment? Or, would you favor this bill regardless of the effect upon the Federal payment?

Question No. 3: Do you think persons now voting in other States and Territories should be allowed to vote in the District of Columbia for: (a) District Council members? (b) The District to incur debt?

Question No. 4: Under the present system, the Board of Education is appointed. The Kefauver bill proposes it be elected.

Education?

Do you favor election of the Board of

Question No. 5: Do you think "local suffrage" without representation in Congress

is desirable?

Question No. 6: Do you believe this bill provides real "home rule" for the District of

Columbia?

Question No. 7: Do you live in the District of Columbia? Maryland? Virginia?

Question No. 8: If you live in the District, how long have you lived here?

Question No. 9: If you live in Maryland or Virginia, is your business located in the District? Do you own property in the District?

Mr. COLLADAY. And I have here my original statement which I read I would like to file that.

We

Mr. HARRIS. Very well, Mr. Colladay. It may be filed. appreciate the very frank and informative statement and I want to pay you the same high compliment for presenting the position of the board of trade in this matter as I did Mr. Auchincloss, a member of this committee, who is sponsor of one of the proposed bills before it. I might say you and Mr. Auchincloss thus far have been the only two witnesses who have taken up the legislation and actually discussed it and explained it, in my opinion.

Mr. COLLADAY. I am very proud to be classed alongside of Congressman Auchincloss.

Mr. HARRIS. Both of you made excellent witnesses and we appreciate having the valuable information you have given us on this subject. Mr. COLLADAY. The statements represent lots of hard work.

Mr. HARRIS. That is quite obvious, and I think it is noticeable to members of the committee and others who are interested in this matter. I regret that Mr. Auchincloss was called away. He said he wanted to be back so that he could answer some questions he had in mind. However, he advised me he had only one question in mind. He asked that I present it to you, and that is in reference to your statement on page 3. He would like to know by what authority do you make the statement that this government here in the District of Columbia has frequently been called the best municipal government in the United States of America?

Mr. COLLADAY. I have heard that statement made in many orations, when public men were delivering those orations on the occasion of public assembly in the District of Columbia and when it was appropriate to pay a compliment to the District of Columbia. I should say in the 52 years I have lived here, I should say I have heard it times without number, and I think among the various things that James Bryce wrote about the District of Columbia, that he included that statement. He was a distinguished Britisher, Lord Bryce. I am sure it has been in print in many books where it was appropriate for some distinguished writer to say something about the government in the District of Columbia, and they frequently do, because it is so different from governments elsewhere, and they comment on it in writing books on the United States. Does that answer your question?

Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Auchincloss also wanted to call attention to the fact that Rumson, N. J., also had a pretty good municipal government. Mr. COLLADAY. I will add that I have lived here 52 years, but I also lived 11 years in Hutchinson, Kans., which has a good city government, and I learned all about politics and what franchise rights mean in those 11 years.

Mr. HARRIS. Do you live in the District?

Mr. COLLADAY. Yes, sir.

Mr. HARRIS. How long have you lived here?

Mr. COLLADAY. Fifty-two years next December.

The CHAIRMAN. You used to farm in the District, did you not? Mr. COLLADAY. Until this year I had no competitor in regard to my farm which is located at the corner of Sixteenth and Holly Streets NW., where I have had an area of one-quarter of an acre on which I raise vegetables, and some of the real-estate men say that "Colladay raises sweetcorn that costs $10 an ear," but it is darned good corn.

Mr. HARRIS. Are there any questions by any members of the committee?

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Colladay, can you tell us about what percentage of the business and professional men of Washington belong to the Washington Board of Trade?

Mr. COLLADAY. The membership is now about 8,500. I do not want to cast any reflection on anyone who does not happen to be a member, but our membership committee rounds up 1,600 a yearthat is, new members and nobody escapes being invited into it; and it is entirely representative, and on the board of directors are between 40 and 50 of the most representative residents, officers of the banks, presidents of utilities, doctors, lawyers, dentists, merchants of