Political Quotes

“As everyone knows by now, the Constitution requires that when any one State or more than one State wishes to enter into an agreement with one or another State, that agreement is subject to the consent of the Congress. That is why our committee, charged with the responsibility of overseeing those kinds of agreements, brings to the floor, just as we have now, this pending agreement, already reached between the States of Texas and Oklahoma with respect to the boundary line, that momentous boundary line that exists between the two States, namely the Red River. It appears that over the years the Red River changes its contours from time to time and causes difficulty for everyone concerned in determining the actual dividing line between those two great States in the Southwest. Such continued argument about the boundary has resulted in a final resolution of it. Yet just as the final resolution was reached, it was also determined that the Indian tribes that abound in that area were themselves hurt, or they felt that they would be hurt by the final agreement.”