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Leaving that point. I come now to the record. Here are one hundred and fifty cases in which the only record is a duplicate certificate of naturalization. but each of those one hundred and fifty copies declares that the record of that case is in a certain book. and when you turn to the book there is no record there. Therefore the recital of a record is a falsehood. There is upon that record a case where a naturalization was made in 1854 and the record made in 1865. The record does nuot include any of the cases where there was no record atall. In three different cases it has been proved there was no recordnot the scratch of a pen. In Sardinghausens case Mr. Lowry himself testifies that he examined all the books in the case and there was no scratch of a pen. nothing to show that any naturalization had taken place. and when Sardinghausens attention is called to it. and his certificate of naturalization is delivered to Bell. th is sa me Bell in the course (if two days comes back from that same court with this same clerk. bringing a certified copy of therecord. This undisputed fact speaks for itself and for the unreliability of the record either in what is put in or what has been left out. Read the memoranda in the testimony of the clerk. and you find that this record is sometimes false. more often faulty. frequently without anything upon the record to show the case. forged decrees of divorce. records made years after the action purporting to have been taken. records of naturalization made at times when no court was in session. and all by this deputy clerk. Nelson. and yet it is seriously claimed that such a record or absence of record impeaches Mr. White.