What great public evil or great public necessity exists for forcing upon the consideration of this House at this time the determination of the questions which arise upon the bill now under consideration? Acommitteo of thisHouse. solemnly chargedwith theresponsibility of examining the question. investigated the operations of the law providing for the regulation of congressional elections in the great city of the Empire State. which I have the honor in part to represent. in the exciting contest of 1876. In that same city in the year 1868. before these safeguards -were thrown around the ballotbox. more than sixty thousand fraudulent naturalization papers were issued. and more than 30.000 additional fraudulent votes were counted. so that the vote of that great State was snatched from the republican party and nominallygivento the democratic party of the country. Inthat same city there were such scenes enacted and such frauds perpetrated when it was without the protection of the law which is to be nullified by the bill we are now considering. A committee of this House. as I have stated. was charged with the responsibility of investigating the election of 1876 after this law was enacted.
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