I move to amend by striking out the last four lines on page 7. I shall say nothing on the subjectmatter of this amendmeit further than to present the subject to the Senate and ask for the yeas and nays. By the existing law all persons. without distinction of race. nativity. or color may. with certain qualifications of residence and character. be naturalized. That is the law now.. It is proposed by the part of this bill which I move to strike out to limit the capacity of natnralization to persons of white and of Africau.descent. excluding entirely Asiatics who may desire to become naturalized and possess the requisite qualifications. I think that is contrary to the whole tendency of legislation and of government in this country for the last twenty years. and if die revisers of the statutes have produced any change nore enlarged and ])rogressive by their revision than the law was beroc. I wold not now. at this stage of the history of our Government. go back to the invid ions distinctions which this amendment creates.
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