CHEVY CHASE, Md. — A new Congressional resolution would remove a memorial honoring the white-supremacist founder of Montgomery County's Chevy Chase community. House Resolution 1256 - the Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act - would take Newlands' name off the Chevy Chase memorial fountain , which sits in Chevy Chase Circle on the D.C./Montgomery County line. U.S. Sen. Francis G. Newlands founded Chevy Chase in the 1880s and "was an outspoken white supremacist who actively sought to strip voting rights from African Americans," noted Montgomery County Council in a press release where they said they plan to support the Congressional...