Hawaii the 49th State End Clipped

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Tonight's Pacific story comes to you as another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Joseph R. Farrington, Hawaii's delegate to Congress and publisher of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, the 49th state.

Just one thing more, Mr. President, about Hawaii. Oh, yes, yes. In regard to the negotiations about admitting the Hawaiian Islands into the Union. I don't know.

The American I did. Well, he was the one who integrated the negotiations. Yes. The negotiations have, of course, stock. Well, in view of King Kamehameha's death, I don't see how he can go on with him.

For the time being until the situation in Hawaii is clarified, we'll hold the entire matter in a bayon. That was Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, making a decision almost a hundred years ago, about the time New York and Chicago were for the first time linked by rail.

Forty years after that, the matter was again up for consideration in Washington. Hawaii is now a territory of the United States. Let me assure you that this is one of the formal steps leading to statehood.

Cheers, Echo from Washington to Honolulu. But nothing came of it. In the years since then, 10 times we have assumed the expenses of congressional committees to visit our islands and study our qualifications for statehood.