It does not affect it at all. We are stating affirmatively who shall be regarded as citizens. in order that there may not be any question in just such a case as the gentleman from Ohio plutthe ease of a very able and eninent gentlemuan in the public service who was born in Montreal while his father was there as a contractor for building the cathedral. We recognize the principle that the children of citizens. born abroad. shall be citizens of the United States without the necessity of naturalization. It certainly cannot be an objection to the bill that it rcognizes diatinetly what my friend from New York considers to be the settled law already. I now pass to another objection which might have some gravity if it were not founded upon a total misapprehension of what the bill eovides.
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