Therefore. whether you take the fact that the Constitution as applied to him and the qualifications therein specified operate upon him. or whether you exclude that thought or idea. or whether he comes here under the law without any qualifications being fixed by it. you have no right to exclude in either case. certainly not in the latter case. because there was not under the law at the time of his election any qualification prescribed. and this House is as much bound by the law as the Delegate himself or the humblest individual in the land. I want now. Mr. Speaker. to call the attention of the House. as briefly as I can. to one or two other propositions. I have forborne any discussion upon the number of votes shown by Mr. Cannon. naturalization. or anything of that kind. because it has been conceded by the majority of the committee that Mr. Cannon had over 18.000 votes and that Mr. Campbell had about 1.300. it is conceded that Mr.
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