The amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois. as amendedby the gentleman fromOhio. cannot perhaps be very seriously objected to. but. if the amendment is voted upon without the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio. I think it is a very objectionable one. I hardly think it is in harmony with the genius of our Government to declare that those persons who have come among us and declared their intention to become citizens of the United States shall not have an open door to all employments of an American citizen. We have in the State which I have the honor in part to represent forty thousand voters who are of foreign birth. and twenty thousand of those voters are not yet naturalized citizens of the United States.
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