A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=30560 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: March 6 1915 Article Description: Committee of 100 Page 14 Article Text: Washington Post March 6, 1915 Committee of 100 Page 14 HALF-AND-HALF ALLIES Committee of 100 Rejoices Over Action in Congress. READY FOR COMING INQUIRY Executive Committee Announces Plan to Present Defense of Existing Fiscal Arrangement in District at Sessions of Congressional Investigators - Cooperation of Civic Organizations Urged. The readiness of the committee of one hundred to defend the present fiscal arrangement in the District by the presentation of facts to the joint committee of Congress appointed to make a study of the situation was announced last night by the executive committee at a meeting in the offices of the executive committee chairman, Henry B. F. MACFARLAND, in the Evans building. The committee announces its gratification at the failure of passage of laws aimed to modify the present fiscal system and at the opportunity for a careful study of the situation offered by the appointment of the joint committee. The following minutes were adopted: "The executive committee, created March 7, 1914, by the committe of one hundred, which had been appointed at a mass meeting representative of the entire community, aroused by the imminent danger of legislation which would destroy the 'half-and-half arrangement' of appropriations for the District of Columbia, is gratified by the failure of all such legislation in the two latter sessions of the Congress which expired on Thursday: Report to End Agitation. "The executive committee is gratified by the opportunity afforded by the creation of the joint committee of the Senate and House for a thorough and impartial consideration of the subject of the fiscal relation between the country and its National Capital and a report to Congress which by its wisdom and justice will end the harmful agitation of the question at least for many years to come. "The executive committee having for one year been engaged in the collection of the facts on the subject, and their presentation by members of the committee of 100 and other public-spirited citizens here and throughout the States to the consideration of senators and representatives, is ready at once to lay before the joint committee of the Senate and House all the facts, together with the official documents from which they have been taken, including reports of regular and joint committees of the two houses, decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States census reports giving statistics of comparative assessments and taxation of cities. Suggests Union of Efforts. "The executive committee believes that there should be effective cooperation by the different [sp.] civic organizations of Washington which favor the continuance of the present fiscal relation between the United States and its National Capital, and suggests a conference of the official representatives of such organizations at an early date for the purpose of securing such cooperation in the presentation of facts to the joint committee of Congress." The executive committee is constituted as follows: Henry B. F. MACFARLAND, chairman; Thomas W. SIDWELL, secretary; A. LISNER, treasurer; Dr. Harvey W. WILEY, Col. George TRUESDELL, M. A. LEESE, Mrs. Wallace RADCLIFFE, Miss Janet E. RICHARDS, Richard B. WATROUS, Clarence J. OWENS, Dr. Charles W. RICHARDSON, B. H. WARNER, Charles S. BUNDAY, and S. W. WOODWARD. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com