Often. as in the case snggested by the gentleman from Ohi.. it may he a ease of very guave doubt. open to all sorts of diffitlties. to deteritino whether te domicile of the party was actually in a foreign country or in the United States. I thin that inl this view the legislation proposed in the bill before us is open to serious Ubt. ShCUMAKER. of Now York. Does the gentleman mean to say that a person born it a foreign country of parents who are citizens of the United States aud who return to this country tmy not exercise the elective frachise without naturalization ? No such person. as I have understood. was ever deprived of the exercise of the elective franchise.
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