449 Randolph Street. 77 Randolph Place.. 35 Randolph Street. 105 Raymond Street. 3204 Reservoir Street. 3318 Reservoir Street.. 3418 Reservoir Street.. 36 Rhode Island Avenue. 103 Rhode Island Avenue. 1441 Rhode Island Avenue. 1615 Rhode Island Avenue. 1622 Rhode Island Avenue. 1626 Rhode Island Avenue. 1706 Rhode Island Avenue. 1741 Rhode Island Avenue. do. do...... Unfurnished 15 rooms and 2 6 rooms and bath.. Shannon & Luchs.... N. L. Sansbury Co.. ..do.. 9 rooms, 2 baths. Furnished. Unfurnished 5 rooms and bath.. 6 rooms and bath.. .do.. .do.. do.. Furnished. Unfurnished .do. 12 rooms, 3 baths.. Furnished.. 20 rooms, 5 baths.. do.. 11 rooms, 3 baths... .do.. 30 rooms, 6 baths.. Unfurnished 10 rooms, 2 baths.. do. 14 rooms, 4 baths.. 12 rooms and bath. 11 rooms, 3 baths.. 10 rooms and bath. 8 rooms and bath.. 6 rooms and bath.. 8 rooms and bath.. 5 rooms and bath. 9 rooms and bath.. .do.. 1827 Riggs Place.. do. 100.00 2907 Rittenhouse Street. do. 150. 00 517 Rock Creek Church Road.. .do. 90.00 3537 S Street... ..do. 75.00 3625 S Street. ..do. 75.CO 80.00 40.00 1113 Seventeenth Street.. $8,000 per year. do.. .do... (Thereupon, at 10.35 o'clock p. m., the joint subcommittee adjourned until Friday, January 23, 1925, at 9.30 o'clock a. m.) X RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEES ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D. C. The joint committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 9.30 a. m. in the room of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, Capitol, Senator L. Heisler Ball presiding. Present: Senators Ball (chairman), Jones of Washington, and Copeland. Present also: Representatives Lampert, Hammer, Blanton, and Reed. Present also: Thomas P. Gore, Esq., counsel for the Owners and Managers' Association, of Washington; John A. Petty, Esq., executive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Who is to talk to the committee this morning? Mr. MCKEEVER. I am, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Very well. TESTIMONY OF ROBERT L. MCKEEVER, ESQ. (The witness had been heretofore duly sworn by the chairman.) The CHAIRMAN. What is your full name? Mr. MCKEEVER. Robert L. McKeever. The CHAIRMAN. Whom do you represent? Mr. MCKEEVER. The Building Owners and Managers' Association of Washington. The CHAIRMAN. Very well; you may proceed with your statement. Mr. MCKEEVER. It is my purpose to show the committee, first, that rental conditions in the District of Columbia are not dangerous to the public health, comfort, morals, peace, and welfare of the public officers and employees of the Federal Government or any others residing in the District of Columbia; and to show, secondly, where the fault lies if rental conditions are burdensome, and that rents are the least burdensome of all the commodities that enter into the cost of living in this District. It is my purpose to show, thirdly, that the purpose and intention in organizing the Tenants' League was not for the protection of the tenants, but for the purpose of exploiting the tenants for the profit and gain of the organizers; and to show, fourthly, the meaning of the phrase "pyramiding trusts," the extent to which this condition has |