I remember a case where the daughter of one of our most substantial farmers. whose father bad (tied and left her with a very good famn. made the acquaintance of such a young mae and married him. Ie went on the fartn and has continued there. a substantial and excellent citizen. I believe be is now naturalized. but wes not for some time after his marriage. Now. do we say that we are so much devoted to the old principles of feudal or English law. or the general principles that prevail among nations. that we will say that thatyoung woman. boyn en our soil. owning the estate on which slwlives. intending to spend her life there. became from the moment of her marriage. and continued up to the time her husband got nateralized. a foreigner and the subject of foreign junisdietion. and must become naturalized had her husband died before he had accomplished his own naturalization? Is it not an improvement on the law to say that an American girl marrying in her own country. which she never loft and in which she intends forever to reside. shall remain an American citizen. although she does marry a man who is not naturalized hem? And that provision is put into this bill. and was the first thing in it that the gentleman commented upon. Putting that provision into it we put inn corresponding provision. probably of comparatively very little importance. which was that a foreign wmnan marrying one of our citizens abroad and continuing to reside abroad (onlythis single exceptional case) should be a citizen of this country as against a 1 powers except the country in which she was born and in which she continned to reside. so that if she chose to remain there and wishedto be a citizen there. she should not be brought by an inexorable rule under the operation of the principle of law to which I have alluded. and be made a citizen of this country against her will.
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