756

[stamp: ACK'D APR1 1913 C.T.H.]

152

[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
APR 1913
RECEIVED]

Washington, D.C. 612 F St. N. W. March 31, 1913.

To the President of the Uncted States.

Sir:

Heretofore, as indicated by your letters to me dated July 11, September 5 and
November 27 1912, it has been my privilege to invite your attention to one of
the largest unsolved problems pending before the American electorate, to wit:
the negro question.

It has been transmitted from generation to generation as an unsettled ques-
tions and meets the threshold of your Administiation as a legacy from former
Administrations that treated the matter inefficiently.

That the matter is of practical and increasing importance appears
from the fact that there were in the Federal Service September 1,1912 22,440
members of this race drawing annual salaries aggregating 12,456,760
(See p.13 "The Republican Party and the Afro-American - A Look of Facts and Figures"
by Cyrus Field Adams" issued by the Republican National Committee 1712).

Will your Administration leave this subject where it finds it? Or
will genuine efforts be made, under your guidance, to affect permanent
settlement thereof?

the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Federal Constitution, whereon
the claims of the Afro-Americans are based, have never been tested as to
their validity and it can only be by testing these Amendments that this
problem can be solved.

If the corperation of your Administration could be obtained to achieve
the end, outlined in H.J.R.41-62d Congress, I could indicate to you a practical
manner of presenting such a test.
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