Alaska-Hawaii statehood, elective Governor, and commonwealth status : hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session, on S. 49, a bill to enable the people of Hawaii and Alaska each to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; S.399, a bill to provide that the Governor and the Secretary of the Territory of Alaska shall be elected by the people of that Territory; S. 402, a bill to provide for the election of the Governor and Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii by the people of the Territory; for the appointment by the Governor of the justices and judges of the courts of the Territory; and for the formation of a constitutional Government by the people of the Territory and proposals for Commonwealth status, Washington, D.C., February 21, 22, and 28, 1955.