The record. if not made up. or if lost or destroyed. should be perfected or replaced by ap.propriate proceedings in the court where the judgment was pronounced. Mr. Speaker. if there was a judgment which was never entered. or if there was a judgment which was evidenced only by the certificate issued to Captain White. and that qertificate. as he says. is lost or destroyed. it was incumbent upon him to avail himself of the unrecorded judgment. and to have taken affirmative action in the court where it was obtained. to first establish it. and then he could have brought a certified transcript of it and his certificate here. and have met the plea or objection that he is not a naturalized citizen of the United States and the proof would not have been questionable. But as it is. he is here asserting his naturalization without any legal proof to establish it. It is no hardship to require this. Our too liberal naturalization laws are easily complied with. What hardship is there in requiring him to produce legal evidence that he is entitled under the Constitution of the United States to be a member of this Congress ? I can see none. and I fear none of the dire consequences predicted by some gentlemen on the Democratic side of the Chamber in the event of the contestee being unseated for the want of such proof.
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