Bartlett Denies Texan’s Contention
Politics Delayed Statehood Bills
WASHINGTON, UPC--Delegate
Bartlett yesterday denied a con
tention by Rep. Rogers (D-Tex)
that political considerations had
prompted the decision not to bring
the Alaska and Hawaii statehood
bills before the House this year.
In a recent report to his con
stituents, Rogers said the Alaska
bill—altho reported by the House
Insular Affairs Committee—was
held back “because the propo
nents felt its chances of passage
would be much better in 1958, an
election year.”
Rogers said the postponement
“points up one of our (the oppo
nents’) best arguments.”
“It shows very clearly,” he said,
“that so many people consider
this strictly on a political basis.”
Basrtlett said he would “deny
that categorically.” He added:
Equality Is the Only Politics
“The only politics involved in
Alaskan statehood is our desire
for political equality with the 48
States.”
Bartlett said backers of the
continued, “when House Speaker
Sam Rayburn advised us that the
bill would not be considered at
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Alaska bill “were ready for the
bill to come before the House at
any time.”
“We were plenty dismayed,” he
this session. Our disappointment
was salved only by the speaker’s
statement that he now favors the
admission of Alaska as a state.”
New Plan for Statehood
While opposing present state
hood bills, Rogers said he favors
an alternative proposal which
would “effectuate the result
sought by these territories, but on
a different basis than that of poli
tics alone.”
This propsal would amend the
Constitution to require favorable
action by legislatures or conven
tions in 36 of the 48 states before
any new state could be admitted
to the Union. *
Bartlett headed home today. |
He expected to reach Anchorage
Friday.
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| To Eisenhower
NEWPORT, R.I., C/P)—President
1 Eisenhower today signed a hard
ship-case immigration bill, but he
called it “a disappointment in that
it fails to deal with many serious
inequities.”
The measure the President ap
proved at his vacation headquar
ters provides for admittance of up
to about 70,000 aliens now barred
from the United States. However,
it .falls far short of what he had
asked.
Eisenhower, in a statement,
urged Congress to give careful
attention to more far reaching re
vision of the immigration and na
tionality law when the lawmakers
reconvene in January.
Eisenhower called it “particu
larly regrettable the Congress did
not provide g method whereby the
thousands of brave and worthy
Hungarian refugees who have
suffered so much at the hands of
Communism might in the future
acquire permanent residence,
looking forward to citizenship.”
The President said he also was
disappointed Congress did not
provide for basing immigration
j quotas on the population census
for 1950 instead of on the 1920
census as at present.
But Rep. Walter (D-Pa), chair -
j man of the House Immigration
j subcommittee which drafted the
I bill, said:
“With these new provisions
there can no longer be any justi
fication for pressure by those
minority leaders who would jeop
ardize our established immigra
tion procedures in an effort to
enrich themselves politically.”
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