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...Senato Insular Affairs Committee of the 83rd Congress is considering the Hawailan Statehood Bill. In this year, more than in any other year since 1903, when the first bid for statehood was made, Congressional approval of the Statehood Bill is likely. Laxity at such a critical time as this would be foolish and would exhibit a direct abuse of the efforts made these previous years by the supporters of statehood for Hawali, who in 1950 voted 82,788 to 27,109 in favor of a state constitution drafted by elected representatives...
Idaho's Republican Senator Henry C. Dworshak last week performed an odd trick: he passed himself on a merry-go-round. Just a few days before, Dworshak had shifted away from support of Hawaiian statehood unless it was coupled with statehood for Alaska. His switch produced an 8-to-7 vote by the Senate Interior Committee to report Hawaii and Alaska together. Dworshak thereby helped set up a combined target on the Senate floor for those who are 1) against Hawaiian statehood, 2) against Alaskan statehood, and 3) against statehood...
...rich field for investment in Alaska as a state, got a promise from Chairman Hugh Butler that Alaska would be approved by the committee soon after Hawaii. With that assurance. Henry Dworshak provided the swing vote in another 8-to-7 decision, this one to report Hawaiian statehood favorably and separately...
Hawaii & Alaska: Statehood will be proposed for Hawaii but not for Alaska...
...Statehood for Hawaii...