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Calendar No. 504.
67TI CONGRESS, SENATE. RIEPOIRT
2d ,ession. f No. 507.
GRANTING SUFFRAGE TO RESIDENTS 'OF TUEE WIST RLT
OF COLUMBIA.
FEBRUARY 20 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 21), 1922.-Ordered to he printed.
Mr. JONES of Washington, from the Committee on the District of
Columbia, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. J. Res. 133.]
Your committee having carefully considered Senate joint resolution
133 and having held full hearings at- which both the advocates and
the opponents of this resolution were heard, report the resolution
favorably and recommend that it be passed, and that the proposed
constitutional amendment be submitted to the States for ratification.
Senate joint resolution 133 proposes amendment of the Constitu-
tion of the United States by inserting at end of section 3, Article IV,
the following words:
The (ongrea shabll have power to admit to the st-tus of citizens of a State the resi-
dents of the District consti tting the seat of the Government of Cho United States.
created by Article I. section 8, for the purpose of representation in the Congress and
among the elec.tors of President and Vice President, and for the .urpose of suing and
being sued in the courts of the Uiited States under the provisions of Article III,
section 2.
When the Congres shall exercise this power the residents of such District shall be
entitled to elect one or two Senators, a determined by the Congress, Reprosentativcs
in the House, ftccording to their numbers as determined by the decennial en.mera-
tion, ind presidential electors equal in number to their -ggregate representation in
the HIouse and Senate.
The Congres.s shall prov ide by law the qualification of voters ard the time and
manner of chooging the Senator or Senators, the, Representative or Representatives,
and the electors herein atthoriz'ed.
,The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper
for carring into execution the foregoing power.
This resolution thus proposes: (1) A new constitutional power for
Congress; (2) a new right and power for residents of the District, to
be enjoyed when Congress in its discretion, shall exercise its new
constitutional power.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/gtsfrsdt0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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