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Rosenblum, Mrs. Haskell, president, District of Columbia League of
Women Voters__.

501

Springer, Hon. William L., a Representative in Congress from the
State of Illinois_-_.

153

Additional material filed with the committee:

Adams Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Charles Smallwood, presi-
dent, statement..

524

Additional material filed with the committee

Continued

American Association of University Women, Alice C. Cole, president,
Washington branch, letter dated July 25, 1959.

Americans for Democratic Action, Washington chapter:

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535

537

Coffin, Hon. Frank M., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Maine, statement..

505

529

Cleveland Park-Cathedral Heights Citizens Association, Dr. James A.
Gannon, Jr., president, statement___

Dwyer, Hon. Florence P., a Representative in Congress from the State
of New Jersey, statement..

Fowler, Rev. Andrew:

Director, Washington bureau, National Fraternal Council of

Churches, U.S.A., Inc.--

President, Baptist convention, District of Columbia, and vicinity.

Francis Junior High School Parent-Teacher Association, Harry L.
Stanton, chairman, executive committee, letter dated July 27, 1959
Frelinghuysen, Hon. Peter, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the
State of New Jersey, letter dated July 31, 1959..
Garber, H. S., counsel, House Committee on the District of Columbia,
memorandum to Hon. John Bell Williams, a Representative in
Congress from the State of Mississippi, entitled "District of Colum-
bia v.
Thompson Company (346 U.S. 100 (Mar. 8, 1953)) as Related
to Home Rule in the District of Columbia".

505

525

520

245

LaSalle PTA, Mrs. Milton Isaacson, president, statement_

522

Loser, J. Carlton, a Representative in Congress from the State of
Tennessee, comparative analysis of all home rule bills pending
before the House Committee on the District of Columbia..
Lovejoy Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Margaret P. Courtney,
president, letter dated July 28, 1959, with form enclosed....
McGovern, Hon. George, a Representative in Congress from the State
of South Dakota, statement...

337

527

507

McKelway, Benjamin, editor, Washington Evening Star, excerpts
from reports made to former Congresses...

322

McKinley High School Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Barrington
D. (Marjorie H.) Parker, president, statement..

526

Additional material filed with the committee Continued

McMillan, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the State
of South Carolina: Letters from-

Adams-Morgan Better Neighborhood Conference, Florence N.
Cornell, chairman, dated July 28, 1959-

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494

American Association of University Women, Dr. Anna L. Rose
Hawkes, president, and Mrs. W. M. Bain, chairman, legislative
program committee, dated July 31, 1959__

490

492

Boyle, Hon. Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the
State of Illinois, dated July 30, 1959.

499

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Langley Junior High School Parent-Teacher Association, John-

arthur H. Lightfoot, president, dated July 27, 1959..

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U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hon. Richard J. Daley, mayor of
Chicago, president, dated July 23, 1959, with resolution en-
closed..

493

Monroe School Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Winifred B. Bentley,
president, statement_ _

Maxwell, Welwood H., letter dated July 23, 1959, with newspaper
clipping entitled "This Is the Hour" enclosed..

536

524

Mount Pleasant Neighbor's Association, Eugene M. Baker, president;
Warren W. Morse, vice president; Henry Smith, treasurer; Margaret
Whitlock, recording secretary, and Sandra J. Cook, corresponding
secretary, statement__

530

National Council of Jewish Women, statement_

534

National Fraternal Council of Churches, Andrew Fowler, director,
Washington Bureau, joint resolution_.

521

Neval Thomas School Parent-Teacher Association, William A.
Robinson, president, letter dated July 27, 1959.

529

People's Congregational Church, Mrs. Margaret P. McCane, chairman,
Christian social action committee, statement..

535

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Additional material filed with the committee

Continued
Reissig, Dr. Frederick E., executive secretary, Council of Churches
National Capital Area, statement_-_-

Reuss, Hon. Henry S., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Wisconsin, remarks in the Congressional Record of August 20,

1959, entitled "The Power of Congress To Create a Legislative

Body for the District of Columbia".

Rivers, Hon. Ralph J., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Alaska, statement...

Excerpt from Federalist No. XLIII (Madison)

Letter to Representative Davis, of Georgia, dated September 2,

1959.

Washington Bar Association, E. Lewis Ferrell, chairman, board of
directors, letter dated July 25, 1959_

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507

504

526

485

534

West School Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Elsie W. Mitchell,
president, statement.

526

Wheatley Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Alma D. Porter, presi-
dent, letter dated July 28, 1959-

528

Women's Alliance, All Souls' Church, Miss Eula James, chairman,
committee on education and legislation, statement...

534

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOME RULE BILLS

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1959

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE No. 3 OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 445,
House Office Building, Hon. James C. Davis (subcommittee chair-
man) presiding.

Chairman Davis and the following other members were present:
Mr. McMillan, Mr. Abernethy, Mr. Williams, Mr. Wier, Mr. Multer,
Mr. Matthews, Mr. Harmon, Mr. Foley, Mr. Irwin, Mr. Morris, Mr.
Kearns, Mr. Broyhill, Mr. Springer, Mr. W. Smith, and Mrs. Weis.

Also present: William N. McLeod, Jr., clerk of the Committee on
the District of Columbia; Hayden S. Garber, counsel; Ann L. Pur-
year, assistant clerk; Leonard O. Hilder, investigator; and Donald
Tubridy, minority clerk.

Mr. DAVIS. The subcommittee will come to order, please.

We have called these hearings to consider all of the pending home

rule legislation before this subcommittee. There are pending 26 bills;

23 of them are identical. Three vary in some respects from the others,

they are the bills by Mr. Auchincloss, H.R. 2321; by Mr. Wier, H.R.
1379; and by Mr. Multer, H.R. 8081.

(S. 1681, H.R. 1379, H.R. 2321, H.R. 4400, and H.R. 8081 follow :)

AN ACT To provide an elected mayor, city council, and nonvoting delegate to the House of

Representatives for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled, That subject to the retention by Con-

gress of the ultimate legislative authority over the Nation's Capital which is

granted by the Constitution, it is the intent of Congress to restore to the in-

habitants of the District of Columbia the powers of local self-government which

are a basic privilege of all American citizens; to reaffirm through such action

the confidence of the American people in the strengthened validity of principles

of local self-government by the elective process; to promote among the in-

habitants of the District the sense of responsibility for the development and well-

being of their community which will result from the enjoyment of such powers

of self-government; to provide for the more effective participation in the devel-

opment of the District and in the solution of its local problems by those persons

who are most closely concerned; and to relieve the National Legislature of the

burden of legislating upon purely local District matters. It is the further inten-

tion of Congress to exercise its retained ultimate legislative authority over the

District only insofar as such action shall be necessary or desirable in the in-

terest of the Nation. Finally, it is recognized that the restoration of the powers

of local self-government to the inhabitants of the District by this Act will in

no way change the need, which arises from the unique character of the District

as the Nation's Capital, for the payment by the Federal Government of a share

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