SAMUEL DICKSTEIN, New York, Chairman
JOHN LESINSKI, Michigan

NOAH MASON, Illinois
LEX GREEN, Florida

EDWARD H. REES, Kansas
DAN R. MCGEHEE, Mississippi

CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska
A. LEONARD ALLEN, Louisiana

HUBERT S. ELLIS, West Virginia
JOHN L. MCMILLAN, South Carolina BERNARD W. KEARNEY, New York
ROBERT RAMSPECK, Georgia

WILLIAM P. ELMER, Missouri ED GOSSETT, Texas

JOHN B. BENNETT, Michigan THOMAS E. SCANLON, Pennsylvania LOWELL STOCKMAN, Oregon 0. C. FISHER, Texas

EDWARD O. MCCOWEN, Ohio

JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii MIRIAM WYDRA, Clerk

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Witnesses:

E. C. Hallbeck, National Federation Post Office Clerks..

Richard R. Ely, Interior Department--

Edward J. Shaughnessy, Department of Justice.

S. E. Wilkins, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

James Moore, American Legion

Hon. John Phillips, of California.

Dr. Diosdado M. Yap, representing Filipinos in the United States

and Hawaii.

Hon. Joseph Rider Farrington, Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii_

Concurrent resolution, Legislature, Territory of Hawaii..
Resolution, board of supervisors, Hawaii County-

Resolution, Filipino leaders in the Territory of Hawaii..
A. R. Luartes, Veterans of Foreign Wars..
Tony Siminoff, Los Angeles, Calif.

APPENDIX

Letter, Department of State, November 20, 1944.

Copy of letter, Bureau of the Budget, November 18, 1944.

Letter of Attorney General, June 20, 1944.

Letter of Secretary of the Interior, June 13, 1944.

Letter and resolutions from Secretary of State of the State of Washington.-

Letter from department of finance, Commonwealth of the Philippines, with

letters and telegrams endorsing passage of legislation (November 21,

1944).

Articles by Dr. Diosdado M. Yap:

Emigration of Filipinos.

Citizenship status of Filipinos.-

Re Filipino immigration into California

Who are citizens of the Philippines?..

An act providing for the ways in which Philippine citizenship may

be lost or reacquired.--

Act No. 2927, Philippine naturalization law..

Anomalous status of Filipinos.---

Immigration problems of Filipinos.-

Rule 33.

Amendments to immigration rules of January 1, 1930.

Problems occasioned by Filipino immigration.-

Emigration...

Philippine policies.

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