To Provide a Civil Government for the Virgin

Islands of the United States

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BEFORE

THE COMMITTEE ON
TERRITORIES AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

UNITED STATES SENATE

AND

COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 5457 and H. R. 14319
BILLS TO PROVIDE A CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE

UNITED STATES

JANUARY 19, 20, AND 21, 1933

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON :1933

HIRAM BINGHAM, Connecticut, Chairman HIRAM W.JOHNSON, California.

KEY PITTMAN, Nevada. ARTHUR R, ROBINSON, Indiana.

EDWIN S, BROUSSARD, Louisiana. GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota.

CARL HAYDEN, Arizona. JESSE H. METCALF, Rhode Island.

MILLARD E, TYDINGS, Maryland. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan. HARRY B. HAWES, Missouri, BRONSON CUTTING, New Mexico.

WILLIAM H. KING, Utah.
CHARLES L. McNARY, Oregon.

JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, Arkansas.
HENRY M. BARRY, Clerk

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS

BUTLER B. HARE, South Carolina, Chairman GUINN WILLIAMS, Texas.

HAROLD KNUTSON, Minnesota. JOE L. SMITH, West Virginia.

CARROLL L. BEEDY, Maine. JOHN MCDUFFIE, Alabama.

CHARLES L. UNDERHILL, Massachusetts. RALPH F, LOZIER, Missouri.

LLOYD THURSTON, Iowa. BOLIVAR E. KEMP, Louisiana.

THOMAS A. JENKINS, Ohio. WILBURN CARTWRIGHT, Oklahoma. FREDERICK W. MAGRADY, Pennsylvania. 0. H. CROSS, Texas.

JOSEPH L. HOOPER, Michigan. ROBERT 8. HALL, Mississippi.

RICHARD J. WELCH, California.
RALPH GILBERT, Kentucky.

GEORGE F. BRUMM, Pennsylvania.
JOHN E. MILLER, Arkansas.
WILLIAM H. LARRABEE, Indiana.
JOSÉ L. PESQUERA, Puerto Rico.

WILL P. BOWERS, Clerk