CARD DIVISION HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 21, H. R. 49, H. R. 205, H. R. 1745, FEBRUARY 23, 24, 26, AND 27, 1953 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 4 COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS A. L. MILLER, Nebraska, Chairman WESLEY A. D'EWART, Montana JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii CLAIR ENGLE, California LLOYD M. BENTSEN, JR., Texas EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, Minnesota MRS. GRACIE PFOST, Idaho GEORGE A. SHUFORD, North Carolina E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska ANTONIO FERNÓS-ISERN, Puerto Rico SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS A. L. MILLER, Nebraska JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii KEN REGAN, Texas LLOYD M. BENTSEN, JR., Texas EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, Minnesota E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska ANTONIO FERNÓS-ISERN, Puerto Rico STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1953 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, at 10 a. m., in the committee room of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the Honorable A. L. Miller (the chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Possessions will come to order. We will open the meeting until the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Saylor, arrives. I think he has been delayed a little at the Pentagon. Inasmuch as we have the Secretary of the Interior here, Mr. Douglas McKay, we thought in courtesy to him we would start the hearings. It is now 7 minutes past 10. Mr. BENDER. Before we proceed let me say that I have introduced a bill to admit Ohio into the Union. I personally believe Ohio is in the Union. We have elected seven Presidents from Ohio. I think I am sitting here according to Hoyle. However, there are a good many historians and people who like to dot i's and cross t's who have the idea that Ohio was never admitted. Under the circumstances, before we talk about Hawaii being admitted, or any other Territory, we might correct the record for Ohio. I am very much in earnest; I am not being facetious. Since there is some question and since it has been raised, now that we are having our sesquicentennial, I think it would be desirable to pass that bill. It could do no harm and it will relieve me of a great deal of correspondence and difficulties which some of these people who like to be so technical are creating. The CHAIRMAN. I might say to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Bender, that the bill has been before the committee, or at least a report has been requested. Mr. D'Ewart informs me a hearing will be held just as soon as we can get the report. I am sure the committee will not treat the bill lightly. I understand that there is some really technical difficulty involved. The librarians, historians, and other people who deal with the technical problems of legislative angles think that maybe there is some flaw relative to Ohio being brought into the Union. Mr. BENDER. Some of these historians are getting into this area, and they are making my life very difficult. The CHAIRMAN. I assure you that the people of the United States. generally have accepted the fact that Ohio has been legally a member, along with the 47 other States. When the bill comes before the |