Statehood for Hawaii: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Hawaii, Congress of the United States, Seventy-fifth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 18, a Concurrent Resolution Relative to a Study of the Subject of Statehood and Other Subjects Relating to the Welfare of the Territory of Hawaii. October 6 to 22, 1937U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 735 pages |
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Page 446 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 551 - Montana, which shall be attached to the ninth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for each of said districts one district judge, one United States attorney and one United States marshal.
Page 108 - The constitution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed. and not to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Page 532 - States with the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived or some other vessel or aircraft; (E) an alien entitled to enter the United States under and in pursuance of the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the foreign state of which he is a national...
Page 551 - Of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, brought by the United States, or by any officer thereof authorized by law to sue, or between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants from different States; or, where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and...
Page 108 - April, 1889; and such election shall be conducted, the returns made, the result ascertained and the certificates to persons elected to such convention issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of the...
Page 563 - Government of the republic of Hawaii that those islands should be incorporated into the United States as an integral part thereof...
Page 551 - The marshal, district attorney and clerks of the circuit and district courts of each of said districts, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed...
Page 243 - States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.