The Secretary will read the amendment. The amendment was read and ordered to lie on the table. as follows: Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. BACON to the joint resolution (S. R. 127) to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. viz: Insert the following: "That this resolution shall not be operative and of binding effect upon either the United States of America or the Republic of Hawaii until the same shall have been consented to and approved by the majority of the voters voting at an election to be held in the Hawaiian Islands. at which election all male natives of said islands of the age of 21 years and all naturalized male persons in said islands of the age of 21 years shall be duly qualified voters. The said election shall be held at a time and in the manner and under regulations to be prescribed by the President of the United States."
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