Nationalrepresentation for the District of Columbia. Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S.J. Res. 35...April 16 to May 6, 1941 |
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American Answer Arthur Capper Association believe census census family cession CHAIRMAN citizens citizenship colored Congress constitutional amendment council delegate democracy democratic District of Columbia District residents election electoral college electors entitled ernment exercise favor Federal Government Federation of Women's figures FINCH form of government give grant gress hearings House interest JACOBSTEIN Joint Resolution 35 jurisdiction laws legislature LESH LOWDER Maryland matter ment municipal National Capital National Government national representation national taxes Negro officers organization participation Pat McCarran persons political population present President and Vice privilege proposed PRYSE question reason record repre representation in Congress represented SCHMECKEBIER seat of government self-government Senate Joint Resolution Senator KILGORE Senator NORRIS Star statement suffrage Sumners amendment SUTER territory Theodore W thing tion trict of Columbia un-American Union United UNITED STATES SENATE Virginia voteless voters WALDROP Washington Washingtonians WHATLEY WILSON Women's Clubs
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5. lappuse - The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or individual to this State, or to any municipal corporation therein.
213. lappuse - And as it is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State ceding it ; as the State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it; as the inhabitants will find sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession ; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government, which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will...
213. lappuse - No district court shall have cognizance of any suit (except upon foreign bills of exchange) to recover upon any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of any assignee, or of any subsequent holder if such instrument be payable to bearer and be not made by any corporation, unless such suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover upon said note or other chose in action if no assignment had been made...
5. lappuse - Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentage or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed...
34. lappuse - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrupted with impunity, but a dependence of the members of the general government on the state comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might...
2. lappuse - Provided nevertheless, That the operation of the laws of the state within such district shall not be affected by this acceptance, until the time fixed for the removal of the government thereto, and until Congress shall otherwise by law provide.
213. lappuse - That a district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located as hereafter directed on the river Potomac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch and Connogochegue, be, and the same is hereby, accepted for the permanent seat of the gov. ernment of the United States.
213. lappuse - ... of the government of the United States, in like manner and to all intents and purposes as if the same had been within the...
213. lappuse - States, or (c) is between citizens of a State and foreign States, citizens or subjects. Ko District Court shall have cognizance of any suit (except upon foreign bills of exchange) to recover upon any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of any assignee, or of any subsequent holder if such instrument be payable to bearer and be not made by any corporation, unless such suit...
5. lappuse - American city for the same expenditures. The Government having large reservations in the city, and the nation at large having an interest in their capital, I recommend a liberal policy toward the District of Columbia, and that the Government should bear its just share of the expense of these improvements. Every citizen visiting the capital feels a pride in its growing beauty, and that he, too, is part owner in the investments made here.