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0aiendar No. 505.
67TH CONGRtESS, SENATE. REPORT
2d Seossion,. No. 508.
'DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SUFFRAGE.
FEBRUARY 20 (calendar (lay, FEBRUARY 21), 1922.-Ordered to be printed.
,Mr. BALL, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted
the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 14.]
The Committee on the District of Columbia, to which was referred
the bill (S. 14) providing for the election of a Delegate to the House of
Representatives from the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon with the recom-
mendation that the bill do pass without amendment.
The committee is of opinion that the disfranchised p eople of the
District of Columbia are entitled to a larger measure of self-govern-
ment than provided in S. 14 for the election of a Delegate in Congress.
Because of the uncertainty of enactment of a constitutional amend-
ment at this time, which would bestow upon Congress the power to
allow the District of Columbia Senators, Representatives, and a vote
in the Electoral College, and realizing that should such an amend-
ment be passed by Congress by the required two-thirds vote, a long
time, possibly several years, would necessarily elapse before such
amendment could be ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the
States, the committee believes that for the time being election of a
Delegate in Congress from the District of Columbia is necessary for
at least the partial participation of the people of the District of
Columbia in the National Government, and that Congress should
provide, through S. 14, as soon as possible for election of such Dis-
trict Delegate.
Residents of the District of Columbia, under our system of political
liberty and manhood and womanhood suffrage, in fairness are en-
titled to all the political privileges and rights enjoyed by al other
citizens of the Republic, provided that exercise of such rights and
privileges does not interfere with complete congressional control of
the District of Columbia, a Federal District established as the seat
of the National Government, which should by right be under the
control of Congress. But without disturbing or interfering with such
congressional control there is no good reason why the people resident](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/dtocassg0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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