This being the law the only thing that remains in this case for the House to consider. not as a judicial question but as a question of fact. is whether Mr. White. the sitting member. has told the truth. I am loath to believe that a gentleman with his honorable record in this country is here under false pretenses. that having declared his intention to become a citizen in 1858a matter of recordhe did not perfect his naturalization as he says he did He has sworn to his naturalization. and if there were any doubt of it in my mind I would give him and his constituents the benefit of that doubt. [Here the hammer fell.]
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