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68TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DoCUMENT
0d Ssion No. 570
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTI *
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNI T A
SPEECH OF HON. FINIS 3. GARRETT, 0
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY, ARY 20, M925
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JANUARY 21, 1925.-Ordered to be printed
The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union had
under consideration the bill (H. R. 11753) making appropriations for the Depart-
ments of State and Justice, and the judiciary, and the Departments of Commerce
and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes.
Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Chairman, the Committee on the
Judiciary have reported favorably and there is now upon the calendar
House Joint Resolution No. 68, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
This resolution, I may say, was introduced by me during the
Sixty-soventh Congress, but for satisfactory reasons was not then
vigorously pressed and was not acted upon by the committee. On
December 10, 1923, at the beginning of the first session of the Sixty-
eighth Congress, I reintroduced it, and at a later date the Committee
on the Judiciary graciously accorded hearings to myself and others
upon it and made its favorable report on June 3, 1924.
I have been assured by the distinguished majority leader, the
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Longworth], that in all probability an
opportunity will shortly be given to consider and act upon it in the
House, and hence I am taking advantage of the courtesy tendered
me by the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Shreve] and the gentle-
man from Alabama [Mr. Oliver] in yielding time during the general
debate upon this appropriation bill to bring it to the attention of
members, to the end that they may be considering it against the day
of further discussion and action.
I may say in passing that a precisely similar resolution was intro-
duced-in the Senate by the senior Senator from New York [Mr.
Wadsworth], and, following the custom of attaching to bills and
resolutions the names of the introducers, it is commonly referred to as
the Wadsworth-Garrett amendment.
It has been the subject of some discussion in the Senate. The
Judiciary Committee of that body have reported it in an amended
form. Time permitting, I shall later make reference to the Senate
resolution as amended. For the present I shall confine myself to the
House resolution, which was reported in the exact form in which it
was introduced.
It is as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the fol-
lowing article, in lieu of Article V, be propostd to the several States as an amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall become valid to all
intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legisla-
tures of three-fourths of the several States:
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