BGuthrie Photos: Capitol Hill History Project -- Nelson Rimensnyder ("Why DC Has No Vote in Congress")

Capitol Hill History Project -- Nelson Rimensnyder ("Why DC Has No Vote in Congress"):

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Description of Pictures: Overbeck Lecture: Why DC Has No Vote in Congress
Among all the capital cities of all the democracies in the world, only Washington, DC has no voting representation in its national legislature. How did this happen? And why, after two centuries of trying to rectify the problem, do citizens here still endure taxation without representation?
Local historian and political activist Nelson Rimensnyder will address these questions at an illustrated Overbeck History Lecture on Monday, November 17 at the Naval Lodge Hall.
Rimensnyder is a longtime student of DC history and champion of DC home rule. During his career at the Library of Congress (1970-1975) and then as director of research for the House Committee on the District of Columbia (1975-1992), he compiled what he describes as "the only existing comprehensive archive on the history of the complex DC-Federal relationship." He has been intensively involved in local historic preservation efforts and has served on the boards of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, in addition to running as a candidate for DC public office.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NOVOT1_141117_007.JPG: Nelson Rimensnyder and John Franzen
2. NOVOT1_141117_251.JPG: Nelson Rimensnyder
3. NOVOT1_141117_340.JPG: Nelson Rimensnyder
4. NOVOT2_141117_002.JPG: Three Questions (1) How did we come to live under the legislative authority of a Congress to which we elect no voting members and which taxes us without our consent? (2) How have we attempted, with some successes and many setbacks, over the last 200 years, to mitigate this situation? (3) What can we do now to advance our political presence in Congress?
5. NOVOT2_141117_007.JPG: Frederick Douglass "Regarding their political rights, residents of the Nation's Capital are not really citizens, but practically aliens in their own country." -- Frederick Douglass, Member DC Republican Committee (1870-1895)
6. NOVOT2_141117_011.JPG: What Did the Founding Fathers Say? * A State of states ceding territory would be responsible for protecting the political rights of the residents. * Conditions for the transfer of territory would be specified in the acts of the state legislatures ceding the territory. * Various remedies are available, including allowing residents to vote in federal elections in the ceding state or states.
7. NOVOT2_141117_027.JPG: The Founding Fathers (Cont.) Residents of the territory to be ceded to be consulted and give consent to the transfer.
8. NOVOT2_141117_030.JPG: Petitioners Met in Rhodes Tavern
9. NOVOT2_141117_039.JPG: A Petition and a Memorial
10. NOVOT2_141117_044.JPG: 1801 Constitutional Amendment Proposal 1801: Resolved that the following be recommended to the Legislatures of the several states as an Article in addition to, and amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Article: "The Territory of Columbia shall be entitled to one Senator in the Senate of the United States; and to a number of members in the House of Representatives proportionate to its population. Before it shall have attained a population sufficient to entitle it to one representative it shall be entitled to a member, who shall have the right to deliberate and receive pay, but not to vote. It shall be entitled to one elector for a President and Vice President of the United States, until it shall have attained a sufficient population to entitle it to one representative; and then it shall be entitled to an additional elector for every representative."
11. NOVOT2_141117_081.JPG: 1819 Setback: Mr. Kent, of Maryland, offered for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting to said District a Delegate on this floor, in the same manner that Delegates are allowed to other Territories of the United States. On this motion the House divided, and the resolution was negatived by a considerable majority.
12. NOVOT2_141117_084.JPG: Alexander Robey Shepherd "Father of Modern Washington"
13. NOVOT2_141117_089.JPG: Crosby S. Notes, publisher Evening Star Newspaper
14. NOVOT2_141117_103.JPG: Letter in Support of Blair Amendment to Chairman, Committee on Privileges and Elections, US Senate (Excerpt): "Moreover, it is clear that it never was the intention of the founders of our Government that the citizens of the District should become, or be made, political eunuchs. It never was their intention, nor that "of the States ceding the territory composing the District, that the inhabitants thereof should be deprived of all voice in their own government, either local or national." -- William C. Dodge
15. NOVOT2_141117_108.JPG: President Theodore Roosevelt
16. NOVOT2_141117_114.JPG: Eleanor Roosevelt Testifies
17. NOVOT2_141117_124.JPG: President Dwight Eisenhower A Champion of DC Voting Rights
18. NOVOT2_141117_126.JPG: Ratification Map Here is the lineup of the United States as they stood today on the District vote Amendment to the Constitution after ratification by the Legislatures of New Hampshire, Kansas, and Ohio. The States shaded black passed the measure, and in Texas, the house passed it.
19. NOVOT2_141117_141.JPG: Nixon Message to Congress
20. NOVOT2_141117_144.JPG: Barry Goldwater on Voting Representation
21. NOVOT2_141117_150.JPG: Senate Passes DC Voting Amendment
22. NOVOT2_141117_166.JPG: DC Voting Rights Amendment Shaded states have ratified amendment
23. NOVOT2_141117_194.JPG: The Proposed States of New Columbia
24. NOVOT2_141117_203.JPG: No Vote -- No Tax, DC Act 10-222, Approved 1994, states that the official policy of the District of Columbia is to petition Congress for exemption of DC residents from federal income taxation until voting representation in the US House and Senate is achieved. In 1994 the DC Republican Part adopted a resolution in support of DC Act 10-222, and the DC GOP remains in support.
Description of Subject Matter: In keeping with our goal of building a stronger, kinder, more thoughtful community, the Capitol Hill Community Foundation has established the Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project in order to give our neighborhood a better knowledge of its past and a deeper understanding of the everyday lives of its citizens.
The Project collects oral histories and other relevant materials and information from longtime Capitol Hill residents and former residents, to create a permanent, accessible, ongoing record of the people and events that have shaped our community. As a first priority, the collection effort is focusing on elderly residents whose stories may soon be lost, but its ultimate goal is a many-voiced narrative from across the generations, representing all walks of life and all races and backgrounds, that will illustrate the richly inter-connected life of our neighborhood over time.
The above was from http://www.capitolhillhistory.org/
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