02/01/1995 03:37 PM Senate RES

 SRES 2/1/95                                                                   
         SJR  6 TRANSFER FED. LAND TO POST-1846 STATES                        
  SENATOR TAYLOR, sponsor, said Gordon Harrison had researched this           
 issue and as far back as 1802 the Federal Government started                  
 withholding, as new states would enter, some land.  The only                  
 changes in the resolution were to change the date from 1846 to 1802           
 and to change the additional historic information within the body             
 of the resolution.  The bottom line is still the same, he said.               
 All states should be treated equal.  We have not been treated                 
 equal, nor have our sister states, to the extent that our lands               
 have been withheld.                                                           
                                                                               
 This resolution calls upon Congress to make full fledged states of            
 the Union out of each of the states that entered after 1802 and in            
 particular those states entering in after 1846 which have the most            
 significant amounts of federal property.                                      
                                                                               
 SENATOR PEARCE moved to adopt the CS to SJR 6.  There were no                 
 objections and it was so ordered.                                             
                                                                               
 SENATOR PEARCE moved to discharge CSSJR 6 (RES) from Committee with           
 individual recommendations.  There were no objections and it was so           
 ordered.                                                                      
                                                                               
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 SENATOR LEMAN thanked everyone for their participation and                    
 adjourned the meeting at 5:33 p.m.