66th Congress,) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, j Report 
2d Session. ) ] No. 539. 
APPOINTING A COMMISSION TO REPORT ON CONDITIONS 
IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. 
January 12, 1920.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Campbell of Kansas, from the Committee on Rules, submitted 
the following 
REPORT. 
[To accompany S. J. Res. 69.] 
The Committee on Rules, to which was referred S. J. Res. 69, 
entitled “Joint resolution appointing a commission to report on 
conditions in the Virgin Islands,” herewith report the resolution to 
the House with a favorable recommendation and recommend its 
passage with.the following amendments, to wit:. 
1. That the resolution be changed from a joint resolution to a 
concurrent resolution. 
2. Strike out all after the resolving clause, and in lieu thereof 
insert the following: 
That a joint commission to consist of three Members of the Senate and three Members 
of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Vice President of the United 
States and the Speaker of the House, respectively, is hereby created to visit the Virgin 
Islands and to report fully to Congress as to existing conditions in the said islands, 
and particularly to report and recommend action by Congress, if need there be there¬ 
for, with reference to whether the present government under executive direction 
should be superseded by a civil government provided by Congress as contemplated 
by the act of March 3, 1917 (39 Stat. 1132), said government being now only tempo¬ 
rary in character and by order of the President being now vested in officers of the Navy; 
also, as to whether Congress should at this time provide for a civil government of the 
islands by an organic act; also what, if any, legislation is necessary pending the forma¬ 
tion and adoption of an organic act, and as to the general conditions existing in the 
islands; said report to be filed at the earliest date practicable and during the Sixty- 
sixth Congress. That the expenses of said commission in carrying out the provisions 
of this resolution shall be paid in equal proportions from the contingent funds of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives, upon the audit and order, respectively, of 
the ranking Senate and House Members of said commission, the total amount not to 
exceed the sum of $2,500. 
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