Public Buildings and Grounds: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-First Congress, Second Session ... on Dec. 13, 1929U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - 57 pages |
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act entitled act to provide allocation ALMON amendment appropriations approved May 25 Architect Buildings and Grounds calendar year 1927 Capitol Cass Gilbert CHAIRMAN city Estimated cost Committee on Public conference room Congress of preliminary construction Court Building Commission DALLINGER DAVID LYNN December 21 District of Columbia East entitled An act Estimated cost Total estimates of costs extended February 24 Federal buildings floor Fritz G Further amount necessary HEATH hereby House of Representatives included integral part thereof joint resolution legislation located marine hospital Maryland Avenue ment offices having receipts Pennsylvania Avenue places with post plans and estimates post-office buildings postal receipts Postmaster preliminary plans projects public buildings acts quarantine station receipts between $20,000 Republic of Hawaii Secretary session STATEMENT A.-Projects proposed status of Hawaii Street Supreme Court Building Supreme Court room Territory of Hawaii tion Treasury Department triangle Union United States Supreme Washington WETMORE Willis Van Devanter York
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Page 43 - That the Constitution, and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 11 - Senate, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Page 44 - DC, and, in association with the Delegate to Congress from Hawaii, present and urge the claims of the Territory of Hawaii above set forth with a view to securing from Congress and the Executive recognition in appropriate form of the claims of Hawaii above set forth; -more particularly to secure such legislation from Congress, by amendment to existing law or by new legislation, as may include Hawaii in all acts in aid of good roads, education, farm loans, maternity, home economics, training in agriculture,...
Page 37 - integral part", Hawaii cannot, legally, equitably or morally, be discriminated against in respect of legislation applying to the Union as a whole. 3. That Hawaii is a unit within the American scheme of government, with rights and powers differing from those of the states, in so far as certain features of a territorial government differ from those of a state ; but Hawaii carries all the financial responsibilities and burdens of a state, so far as the Federal Government is concerned, and functions...
Page 39 - Government for the control and management of public affairs and the protection of the public peace is hereby established, to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon.
Page 42 - Islands should be incorporated into 'the United States as an integral part thereof...
Page 44 - Federal Executive as may meet and remedy the conditions herein recited, the governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a commission of three persons, one of whom shall be designated as chairman...
Page 37 - Of all the many acquisitions of territory by the United States, with the exception of Texas, which came into the Union as a State, by exactly the same procedure as did these islands, Hawaii alone became a part of the Union by voluntary agreement as an independent nation, having sovereign powers coequal with those of the United States. All other annexations of territory were by purchase or conquest, by virtue of which such territories respectively became the property of possessions of the United States,...
Page 42 - ... by the Republic of Hawaii, having been accepted by the United States of America, I now in the interest of the Hawaiian body politic and with full confidence in the honor justice and friendship of the American people, yield up to you as the representative of the Government of the United States, the sovereignty and public property of the Hawaiian Islands.
Page 3 - That aside from land that may be acquired for a site for a building for the Supreme Court of the United States, and for enlarging the site of the Government Printing Office, or erecting a storage warehouse or warehouses, the sum of...