too, who want to testify. But your statements here have been helpful so that both of you gentlemen have given us an opportunity at least to get this thing started and we will call on you again should the occasion arise for additional testimony and clarification of any of the matters that may be brought up during the course of the hearing. Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. Mr. Chairman?

Senator JACKSON. Yes.

Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. I would like to say that in a couple of days we may have a pamphlet with an analysis of the bill as compared with the present Federal Relations Act; with an explanation of each change made. As of now we only have an advanced print. There are certain errors in it. Could the pamphlet, when furnished, be put in the record?

Senator JACKSON. Certainly.

It will be an explanation of the bill. We have an earlier one, I think.

Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. Yes, but this is more complete because in the one that I understand you refer to there was only an explanation of the bill without the bill itself being in there. In this pamphlet we will have the bill and the Federal Relations Act and the explanation sections and articles side by side all along as they develop. As to the advanced copy I would not like to place it in the record because there are some errors in the arrangement of the pages.

Senator JACKSON. If you get in touch with Mr. Cafferty or Mr. French we will make arrangements so they are included in the proceedings bere.

You just get in touch with either of these two committee staff men. We will certainly want to have that. There will be no problem about it.

Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. Make it a part of the record?

Senator JACKSON. Yes. The only question, maybe it ought to be printed as a separate document, almost, should it not? Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. Whichever way.

Senator JACKSON. We will work it out one way or the other.

Let

us see how it works out best. I notice it is quite long. It is a question of working it in with the record proper but in any event it will be made an official part of the proceedings. If we can incorporate it right in the record we will do that. It might be well to have it as a separate pamphlet and have it printed that way.

Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN. Thank you very much.

Senator JACKSON. Because it will look better and I think it would be more helpful as a separate pamphlet.

Commissioner FERNOS-ISERN. Of course I want to say, allow me, that at any time that the committee might want me to appear to go over this explanation and discuss each section as compared with each article I would be very happy to do it.

Senator JACKSON. I don't think there is any question but that we will be calling on you for information as we get along later in the hearings.

I want to state that we are going to give all parties an opportunity to be heard. By that I mean spokesmen for organizations representing a substantial number of citizens with differing points of view. We cannot, naturally, entertain testimony from every one of the nearly 3 million American citizens of Puerto Rico. But we will conduct a

full and fair hearing, at which all differences of opinion will be fully discussed.

Again I want to compliment both of you gentlemen for your statements. We appreciate your coming over here today.

I am directing that these hearings today, together with supplemental material that will be helpful to the committee, be printed. The committee has received many, many hundreds, if not thousands, of communications on this measure. So numerous are they, in fact, that it would not be in the public interest to print all of them, both because of the expense involved in the printing and because of their bulk.

However, I am directing that all of these communications be incorporated, by reference, into these hearings and considered a part thereof for all purposes. "Incorporated by reference" means, of course, that the complete text of all of the communications will not be set forth in the printed record, but that they will be held in the committee files and are an official part of the committee's records on the proposed legislation.

The committee will stand in recess subject to the call of the Chair. (Whereupon, at 3:31 p.m., Tuesday, June 9, 1959, the committee adjourned subject to call.)

APPENDIX

(At the direction of the chairman the following have been placed in the record:)

[8. 2023, 86th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To provide for amendments to the compact between the people of Puerto Rico and the United States

Whereas, under the terms of Public Law 600, Eighty-first Congress, the Congress of the United States and the people of Puerto Rico entered into a compact which, fully recognizing the principle of government by consent, provided for the organization of a government by the people of Puerto Rico pursuant to a consitution of their own adoption, and which specified in the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act the terms of their association with the United States; and Whereas the people of Puerto Rico, on July 25, 1952, created the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico within the terms of said compact, pursuant to a constitution of their own adoption, which constitution was approved by the Congress in Public Law 447, Eighty-second Congress; and

Whereas, pursuant to the terms of said compact, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is associated with the Federal Union on the basis of common citizenship, common defense, and international political relations, a common market, a common currency, and a common dedication to the fundamental principles of democracy incorporated in the Constitution of the United States and safeguarded by the Federal as well as the local judicial system; and Whereas the Legislative Assembly of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has proposed amendments to the compact, subject to ratification by the people of Puerto Rico, in order to eliminate therefrom certain inappropriate provisions and to clarify, develop, and perfect its terms so as better to achieve fulfillment of its purposes: Therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the compact between the United States and the people of Puerto Rico is hereby amended by deleting section 4 of Public Law 600, Eighty-first Congress, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following language:

"SEC. 4. The following provisions shall be known and cited as 'The Articles of Permanent Association of the people of Puerto Rico with the United States.'

"Article I. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico comprises the island of that name and its waters and all the islands and waters of those islands in the West Indies, adjacent to the island of Puerto Rico, lying east of the 74th Meridian of longitude west of Greenwich, which are referred to in Article II of the treaty between the United States and the Spanish Government, entered into on the 10th day of December, 1898.

Article II. (a) The rights, privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States shall be respected in Puerto Rico to the same extent as if Puerto Rico were a State of the Union and subject to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Section 2 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States.

"(b) Full faith and credit shall be given in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the several States of the Union, the District of Columbia and the Territories and Possessions of the United States, and full faith and credit shall be given in each State, the District of Columbia and the Territories and Possessions of the United States, to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The laws of Congress prescribing the manner in which such acts, records and procedures shall be approved, applicable to the States of the Union, shall be applicable in the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

"(c) A person charged in any State, Territory or Possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in Puerto Rico shall, on demand of the exec57

utive authority of the State, Territory or Possession, or the District of Columbia, from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State, Territory or Possession, or the District of Columbia, having jurisdiction of the crime, and a person charged in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in a State of the Union or a Territory or Possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, on demand of the executive authority of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, shall be delivered up to be removed thereto.

"Article III. (a) All bonds issued by the United States, or by its authority, or by any State, Territory or Possession of the United States, or by any county, municipality or other municipal subdivision of any State, Territory or Possession of the United States, or by the District of Columbia, or by the authority of any of them, shall be exempt from taxation by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "(b) All bonds issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or by its authority, shall be exempt from taxation by the Government of the United States, or by the Government of Puerto Rico or of any political or municipal subdivision thereof, or by any State, Territory or Possession of the United States, or by any county, municipality or other municipal subdivision of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or by the District of Columbia.

"(c) In the exercise of its power to levy internal-revenue taxes, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall make no discrimination between articles imported from the United States or foreign countries and similar articles produced or marufactured in Puerto Rico. Upon request of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the officials of the Customs and Postal Services of the United States shall assist the Commonwealth government in the collection of internal-revenue taxes.

"(d) Articles of merchandise of Puerto Rican manufacture coming into the United States and withdrawn for consumption or sale shall be subject to taxation in Puerto Rico under the internal revenue laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico at the same rate as like articles produced for use or consumption in Puerto Rico, and in addition thereto, they shall be subject to payment to the United States of a compensatory tax in an amount equal to the difference between the internal revenue tax imposed thereon under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and an amount equal to the internal revenue tax imposed in the United States on like articles of domestic manufacture at the point of manufacture or production.

(e) The income tax laws of the United States shall apply in Puerto Rico upon the incomes of residents of Puerto Rico derived from sources outside of Puerto Rico, including federal salaries, but income tax payments to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on such income shall be credited against federal income taxes. "(f) The taxes imposed and collected by the United States under subsections (d) (e) of this Section shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. "(g) Except as provided in subsections (d) and (e) of this Section, the internal revenue laws of the United States shall have no force and effect in Puerto Rico. "(h) The social insurance laws of the United States under which the participating states or the people thereof substantially pay the costs of insurance shall extend to Puerto Rico equally as if Puerto Rico were a member State of the Union. Laws of the United States establishing programs under which the federal government substantially contributes the cost thereof, such as direct aid to the needy, and grants-in-aid laws, shall apply to Puerto Rico only if the Congress specifically so provides and in accordance with the determination of the Congress. "Article IV. (a) All merchandise produced or manufactured in Puerto Rico and transported to the United States, or produced and manufactured in the United States and transported into Puerto Rico, shall be entered at the several ports of entry free of duty, and free of quantitative restrictions other than those that could be placed on commerce if Puerto Rico were a state of the Union and subject to the provisions of § 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

"(b) The tariffs, customs and duties levied, collected and paid upon all articles imported into Puerto Rico from ports other than those of the United States shall be the same as those required by law to be collected upon articles imported into the United States from foreign countries except as Congress may otherwise provide upon request of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Provided, however, that on all coffee in the ean or ground imported into Puerto Rico, there shall be levied and collected a duty in such amount as may be fixed by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any law or part of law to the contrary notwithstanding.

"(c) The customs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or his delegate, and the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate shall designate the several ports and subports of entry in Puerto Rico and shall make such rules and regulations and