Word: rule
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Eventually a group of local home rule advocates, including the Washington Home Rule Committee and the League of Women Voters, issued a statement advising home rule proponents to accept a modified Sisk plan as the only reasonable hope for home rule. Most people expected the Senate to withdraw its own bill and pass something similar to the Sisk Bill in order to expedite final passage of home rule in some form...
...turned out, the Senate did nothing of the kind. Instead it stood by its own bill and called for a conference with the House. Local home rule advocates are now split. The Democratic Central Committee has refused to go along with the Home Rule Committee and the League of Women Voters. It insists that the Sisk Bill is a fraud, that it was not offered in good faith, and that anyway the home rule movement should not be in such unseemly haste to back down. Besides, they argue, the Senate and the Administration have not yet backed down...
...latest home rule tiff has not produced much activity in Congress, it has stimulated local activity. For years the home rule movement has been sedate, attracting very little attention to itself...
...things are different. Last November, the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, the only important local opponent of home rule, circulated around the country a letter implying that Washingtonians do not want home rule. In response to that action, a whole new group of rule agitators--the Free D.C. Movement--has grown up. The activities of the Free D.C. Movement have been far from sedate: in a few months it has created more publicity for home rule than past home rule activity has created over a period of many years...
...Board of Trade, an organization of some 7,000 business and professional people in the Washington area, has traditionally opposed home rule. The reasons for this opposition are not hard to find...