Speaker. Hawaii is a Territory of the United States and it is the most important Territory or insular possession of the United States because our Government would not have accepted it unless we had needed it for purposes of national defense. In considering this request of the President. it should be remembered that the greatest portion of the population of Hawaii is Asiatic. that one third of the population is Japanese. that we have in the Hawaiian Islands one of the biggest military establishments in our defense system. and we have there one of the greatest naval harbors intended for our national defensePearl Harbor. We have these defenses there for a purpose which need not be elaborated upon at this time. I think any American who knows what is going on in foreign affairs has the idea.