Statehood for Hawaii: Hearings ... Eightieth Congress, First Session on H.R. 49, H.R. 50, H.R. 51, H.R. 52, H.R. 54, H.R. 55, H.R. 56, H.R. 579, H.R. 1125, and H.R. 1758. March 7, 10-14, 19, 1947U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 310 pages |
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acres Admiral NIMITZ admit Hawaii adopted agricultural amendment American annexation Army BARRETT Big Five bill CARROLL ceded CHAIRMAN Chamber of Commerce citizens Colonel FIELDER Colonel HUGHES Congress Congressman constitution Court CRAWFORD D'EWART DAVIDSON Delegate democratic District election ENGLE FARRINGTON Federal Government FERNANDEZ fifth-column gentleman Governor of Hawaii Governor STAINBACK GRANT Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian Sugar Planters hearings HEDRICK Honolulu House of Representatives immediate statehood industry Japanese ancestry labor LARCADE lease LECOMPTE legislation legislature LEMKE loyalty mainland matter ment military MILLER MURDOCK Navy Newlands resolution Oahu Pacific Pearl Harbor percent plantations political population POULSON precincts President public lands Puerto Rico purposes question racial reclamation record Representative DELANEY Republic of Hawaii reservation revenue Secretary KRUG Senator HEEN SHIVERS statehood for Hawaii statement subcommittee Territory of Hawaii tion Union United vote War Department Washington WIGHTMAN
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Page 11 - State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Page 14 - An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public land in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 294 - Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States; that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the said State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to residents thereof...
Page 103 - That said cession is accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and that the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies be, and they are hereby, annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and are subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and that all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned are vested in the United States of America.
Page 3 - That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.
Page 80 - STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT HALE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MAINE Mr. HALE. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, my name is Robert Hale.
Page 17 - The CHAIRMAN.. Are there any questions by any members of the committee ? Mr.
Page 3 - The constitution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of independence.
Page 1 - Be It Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the United States now constituting the territories of...
Page 6 - And each of the circuit, district and state courts, herein named, shall, respectively, be the successor of the supreme court of the territory, as to all such cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts respectively, with full power to proceed with the same, and award mesne or final process therein...