Newspaper reportors. who attended to report the proceedings. wore ejctod. and a member of te bar was forcibly turned out. Numters of applicans oeor ettalization wore vouched for by the same witnesses. and there is reason to believe that gangs of men wre repeatedly passed before the judge under the assueied names of aliens for whom naturalieatten papers wore desired. butwbo were unable or unwilling to take the necessary oaths. The tuntiber thus naturalized in the supreme court. fairly or fraedulently. is variously estimated from 20.00 to 50.000. Irregular and illegal naturalizatin is believed to have occurred also in other parts of the State. In Ulster County a county judge is reported to have opened court every moreing at the clerks ofice. and to have left the clerk to issue certificates of ritizecnltip to parties whom lit iad never seen nor examined.
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