Now. gentlemen of the House of Representatives. I say there is not a man. not oneif there is. who is he and what is his name?-there is not a man. I say. who was naturalized in Allen County but that his name appears iu the record and his final naturalization is declared. not in the order book. but in a book of final oaths. There is not a case except the one I have told you about. and that case is significant. Now. how are these books made? I take it that almost every gentlenan in this House has been in some State court when people were being naturalized. I happen to live in a district composed largely of foreignborn citizens. The county I live in. an agricultural county. has some 4.000 voters. Having myself presided on the bench for ten years. it is possible that I have personally witnessed the issue of as large a number of naturalization papers as any one here. possibly a larger number than any other member of this House. The matter is done there exactly as it is done in Indiana. These records are not a part of the regular records of the court. I take it that in Mississippiand I am somewhat of a Mississippian myselfthere are certain orders of a court so formal in their character. being always in .exactly the same wordsfor instance. forfeitures of bonds and proceedings in eases of naturalizationthat it is more economical to have the books containing such matters bound as such. being made sometimes by order of the court a part of the minutes. and sometimes not. so that in this department of business those minutes pertaining to fbrfeitures and to naturalization are made in a moment byfilling up the blanks in those books. Now. this cunning device has been discovered. but in it is ianother fact overwhelming when the records of Allen County are attacked for a proper and intelligent purpose. to destroy their verity. and in proportion as their verity is destroyed so becomes important and of probable truth the statement of Mr. White.
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