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84TH CONGRES HOUSE F REPRESENTATIVES REPorT
18t Se88ion No. 88
ENABLING THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII AND ALASKA EACH TO FORM
A CONSTITUTION AND STATE GOVERNMENT AND TO BE AD-
MITTED INTO THE UNION ON AN EQUAL FOOTING WITH THE
ORIGINAL STATES
MARCH 3, 1955.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. ENGLE, from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 2535]
-The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, to whom was re-
ferred the bill (H. R. 2535) to enable the people of Hawaii and Alaska
each to form a constitution and State government and to be admitted
into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments an
recommend that the bill do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Page 3, line 13, strike the word the and insert in lieu thereof the
word a.
Page 8, line 21, strike the word apropriations and insert in lieu
thereof the wprd appropriations.
Page 9, line 16, following the word consideration., add the
following new sentence:
The Congress shall within sixty legislative days after receipt thereof approve or
disapprove said constitution.
Page 9, line 18, strike the word before and insert in lieu thereof
the word after.
Page 10, following line 17, add the following new paragraph:
If the Congress shall fail to approve or disapprove the constitution within the
sixty legislative days provided for in the second paragraph of this section, the
constitution shall be deemed to be approved, and it shall be the duty of the
President to certify such fact to the Governor of said Territory, who shall there-
upon proceed in like manner as though the constitution had been expressly
approved.
Page 10, line 25, strike the numeral 4 and insert in lieu thereof
the numeral 104.
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