My own doubts I wanted to be relieved. Those doubts became greater and the obscurity was more obscure when the Senator from Massachusetts [Mir. Roa] pointed out to us the glaring difficulty in the wayof the adoption of such a bill asthis . and I hope my friend from Kansas will now explain the doctrine. now explain that theory of the law of naturalization which he seems to have possessed himself of. -which allows a man. without throwing off all ailegiance. without denying all connection with a foreign country or a foreign power. to come into the courts of the United States simply because he has been living a civilized life and been able to support himself. to obtain the rights of citizenship without even showing that he is attached to theprinciples of the Constitution of the United States or understands its operation.
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