No commissioner fit to pass upon eases of that kind. who would give the necessary labor to the work and no counsel in ordinary practice would consent to work for $3.00 a year. The committee have not proposed to put the compensation back to $4.500. but to consent to a reduction of $500. fixing the compensation at $4.000. I should like to say with reference to this commission that the time when it shall expire is not fixed by law. it still has the amount of unfinished business before it to which I have referred. and this commission is very useful to the Government of the United States in this way. andperhaps it should be continued. it is worth all it costs. for this reason: Persons who. some twenty years ago. or a less or greater period of time. came over to theUnitedStates. and obtained certificates of naturalization. perhaps remained long enough to get those certificates. not intending. however. toreally become citizens of the United States. returned to Spain. and every month or two. as exigencies have arisen since that time. have sworn in various forms that they were Spanisheitizens. A difficultyarises between us and Spain. as sometimes happens. involving our affairs in the island of Cuba. and these persons. being treated as Spanish subjects. produce their papers and at once insist that they are citizens of the United States. If their demands are not acceded to they come to the State Department and make their complaints of a miscellaneous character.
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