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BONDS FOR PARADE PERMITS, AND REMOVAL OF DESTROYED BUILDINGS

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SPECIAL INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETIETH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 16941

TO REQUIRE BONDS FOR PARADE PERMITS

AND

H.R. 16948

TO REQUIRE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT AT ITS EXPENSE TO REMOVE DESTROYED OR DAMAGED BUILDINGS

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COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

JOHN L. MCMILLAN, South Carolina, Chairman

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CONTENTS

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Friedel, Hon. Samuel N., Representative in Congress from the State of
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Ruppert, Raymond R., Realtor, 1017 7th Street, N. W

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Watson, Hon. Albert W., Representative in Congress from the State of
South Carolina___.

MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD
Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review, Student Com-
ments, "Insurance Protection Against Civil Demonstrations".
Chicago Bar Record, Jack M. Siegel, article entitled "Civil Disobedience
and Riot Damage-Current Liability and the New Immunity Statute".
Cleveland Bar Association Journal, Robert E. Jaffe and Gary W. Dubin,
article entitled "Trends in Municipal Liability: Riot Damages".
Connecticut Avenue Assn., release entitled "Don't Shoot Looters".

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D.C. Government:

Letter dated May 10, 1968 to Chairman McMillan reporting on
H.R. 16941_.

Letter dated May 10, 1968 to Chairman McMillan reporting on
H.R. 16948__.

Letter dated May 20, 1968 to Chairman Whitener and enclosure listing
parade permits issued from April 1, 1967, through April 30, 1968-
Letter dated May 22, 1968 to James T. Clark, clerk, enclosing material
concerning special events and the Poor People's Campaign.......
Opinion of the Corporation Counsel on participation in the Poor
People's Campaign...

Report dated July 8, 1968 of Costs to the District of Columbia of the Poor People's Campaign. Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia, resolutions. Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Jewelers' Association, An Open Letter to the President of the United States, and the Mayor of Washington, being an advertisement in the Washington Post of May 17, 1968... Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, William H. Press, executive vice president, letter to Chairman McMillan dated May 13, 1968.... Metropolitan Washington Federation of Business Associations, Inc., Mrs. Josephine Ashby, president, letter to Congressman Ancher Nelsen, dated April 29, 1968.

Retail Liquor Dealers Assn., Hilliard Schulberg, Executive Director, statement___

Washington Post, advertisement "Ben Brown is Dead", issue of May 7,
1968

Washington Evening Star, August 7, 1968, article entitled "U.S. Sends
Bill for Tent City"

Washington Sunday Star, June 30, 1968, article entitled "Adding Up the
Costs-Tent City and Campaign Involved Millions".

WMAL, Evening Star Broadcasting Co., editorial dated May 5, 1968,
entitled "Bonds for Demonstrations".

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BONDS FOR PARADE PERMITS, AND REMOVAL OF DESTROYED BUILDINGS

MONDAY, MAY 13, 1968

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SPECIAL INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

Washington, D.C.

The Special Investigating Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:15 o'clock a.m., in room 1310, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Basil L. Whitener (chairman of the Special Investigating Subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Representatives McMillan (chairman of the full committee), Whitener (presiding), Nelsen, Winn, and Steiger.

Also present: James T. Clark, clerk; Sara Watson, assistant counsel; Donald Tubridy, minority clerk; and Leonard Ó. Hilder, investigator.

Mr. WHITTENER (presiding). The subcommittee will now come to order. We will proceed with hearings on H.R. 16941, a bill by Mr. Abbitt and others to authorize an officer or employee of the government of the District of Columbia to require applicants for permits to parade in the District of Columbia to post a bond to cover certain costs of such parade.

We will also hear the testimony relating to H.R. 16948, a bill to direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove at the expense of the District of Columbia buildings destroyed or damaged in riots or other civil disorders.

These bills relate to subjects which are very much on the minds of the people, not only in the Nation's Capital, but throughout the Nation. And we are delighted that we are having as witnesses Members of the Congress, members of the District government, as well as members of the community.

H.R. 16941 and H.R. 16948, together with the Commissioners' reports, will be printed in the record at this point.

(The documents referred to follow :)

[H.R. 16941, 90th Cong., 2d sess., by Mr. Abbitt (for himself, Mr. Stubblefield, Mr. Gettys, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Fountain), on May 1, 1968]

A BILL To authorize an officer or employee of the government of the District of Columbia to require applicants for permits to parade in the District of Columbia to post a bond to cover certain costs of such parade

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no officer or employee of the government of the District of Columbia shall issue or sign any permit for a parade in the District of Columbia if such officer or employee determines that such parade may

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