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INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

H.R. 9234

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPACT
BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO AND THE
UNITED STATES, AND RELATED LEGISLATION

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 3, 4, 5, 1959
PONCE, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 7 AND 8, 1959

SAN GERMAN, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 9 AND 10, 1959

Serial 14

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HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON
TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

H.R. 9234

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPACT
BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO AND THE
UNITED STATES, AND RELATED LEGISLATION

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 3, 4, 5, 1959
PONCE, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 7 AND 8, 1959
SAN GERMAN, PUERTO RICO-DECEMBER 9 AND 10, 1959

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COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Colorado, Chairman

LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York
WALTER ROGERS, Texas
GRACIE PFOST, Idaho
JAMES A. HALEY, Florida
ADAM C. POWELL, New York
ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma
B. F. SISK, California

STEWART L. UDALL, Arizona
J. T. RUTHERFORD, Texas
WALTER S. BARING, Nevada
AL ULLMAN, Oregon

LEROY H. ANDERSON, Montana
D. S. (JUDGE) SAUND, California
DONALD F. MCGINLEY, Nebraska
THOMAS G. MORRIS, New Mexico
RALPH J. RIVERS, Alaska

QUENTIN BURDICK, North Dakota WM. J. RANDALL, Missouri

A. FERNÓS-ISERN, Puerto Rico

JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania
J. ERNEST WHARTON, New York
E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota
JACK WESTLAND, Washington
CRAIG HOSMER, California

J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Colorado
HAROLD R. COLLIER, Illinois
GARDNER R. WITHROW, Wisconsin
BOB WILSON, California

GLENN CUNNINGHAM, Nebraska
ODIN LANGEN, Minnesota

EDNA (MRS. SID) SIMPSON, Illinois
JOHN KYL, Iowa

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JOHN L. TAYLOR, Staff Consultant on Territorial and Insular Affairs ROBERT J. HUNTER, Special Research Consultant

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CONTENTS

Statement of-

Hon. Guillermo Arbona, M.D., secretary of health of the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico___.

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189

Pelayo Roman Benitez, attorney at law, former judge of Superior
Court of Puerto Rico___.

334

237

Rico____.

Senator Hipolito Marcano, president, AFL-CIO, Commonwealth of
Puerto

Juan Mari Bras, president, the Pro-Independence Movement_-.
Teodoro Moscoso, administrator, Economic Development Administra-
tion, Puerto Rico__--

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Hon. Luis Muñoz-Marín, Governor of the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico____

26

Hon. Jose R. Noguera, secretary of the treasury, Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico____.

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