Speaker. I can never. in view of the Constitution requiring that a member of this House shall have been a citizen of the United States for a term of seven years. give my consent to tie proposition that Mr. White. the sitting menber. who has no record of his naturalization except which he obtained the day before his election. has the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution. Can any man upon this floor account for the fact that Mr. White did. on the day before his election. obtain his final papers. if in fact he had been fully naturalized in 1865? Is thequestion of citizenship of aliensin this country to be so dwarfed that. instead of looking to the records of the courts where the Constitution and laws wisely confide their keeping. we look only to the vague andindefinite statements ofwitnesses? Have our citizens of foreign birth no higher security for their rights as citizens than that which resides in the bosoms of men?
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