Special InvestigationCommittee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria reports and routingcorrespondence 1949

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Special InvestigationCommittee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria reports and routingcorrespondence 1949

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The Texas House ofRepresentatives is one arm of the Legislature of theState of Texas (the other being the Texas Senate), which the Texas Constitution(Article III, Section 1) vests with all legislative power of thestate. In February 1949, the Texas House of Representatives passed House SimpleResolution 68, 51st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, to create aninvestigating committee in regard to the reburial of Felix Longoria, a U.S.soldier from Texas killed in the Philippines during World War II, to establishthe accuracy of reports of discrimination in the matter which had receivedinternational publicity. These records consist of the majority and minorityreports of the Special InvestigationCommittee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria and accompanying routingcorrespondence, 1949. The reports are typewritten copies sent to U.S.Senator Lyndon B.Johnson by Texas State Representative Abraham Kazen, Jr. on the day the reportswere filed in the Texas House, April 7, 1949. Copies of the letter from Kazento Johnson on that date, and a reply from Johnson four days later, accompanythe reports. The majority report includes a paragraph crossed out but stillreadable, that did not appear in the published report in the House Journal. Therecords of the committee, cited in the majority report as consisting of 372pages contained in three volumes, are not held at the State Archives, and theirwhereabouts are unknown.

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