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...Hawaiian statehood was the next item on Majority Leader Robert A. Taft's neatly drafted Senate agenda. And then, quicker than an humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by, the bill was set back for weeks and possibly months...
Opposition to Hawaii and Alaska, the other statehood aspirants, has centered on two points. Both will strongly favor Civil Rights legislation, and are therefore undesirable to Republican factions. Secondly, their interior business interests are controlled largely by companies in the United States. Congress has also some fear of the Communist Labor Unions in Hawaii...
Ohio thus has little priority in choice for Statehood than is two rivals. Of course, central location is a big factor, for closing the gap between the Atlantic Seaboard and the Pacific frontier has always been an ardent hope for all Americans. But a hasty decision based merely on location may lead to disagreement and possible civil dissentation. Only through the reports of investigating parties can Congress accurately study and legislate the tricky problem of Ohio an Statehood...
Meanwhile, legislative time was flying. By midweek, Majority Leader Bob Taft ordered daily sessions (instead of a session every other day). The Republican Policy Committee laid down an immediate schedule: after tidelands, economic controls, and then Hawaii statehood. (Still without a definite place on the schedule: revision of the Taft-Hartley law.) When appropriations bills reach the floor, the schedule may be disrupted, for they will get the right...
...Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring...