President. the Committee on Territories have no desire on this subject one way or the other. They thought it was fair to this new Territory that the same rule should be pursued with relation to who might take part in the first election which had been pursued with regard to all the Territories. If the Senator from Missouri and the Senator from Texas desire that a person who has not become a full naturalized citizen by taking out his final papers after having declared his intention shall not ltave an opportunity to vote in this Territory I have no objection. as one member of the committee. to such a provision. Undoubtedly persons have gone from all sections of the country. from the State of the Senator from Missouri. who are not yet fully naturalized citizens and still who may have been in the country for a year or two and been in this Territory just as long as anybody has been there. and the idea has always been that in the first election such persons were entitled to vote. I do not think the question which underlies all this need be settled upon this bill. We have other measures which are coming before the Senate undoubtedly from the Committee on Immigration. and it seems to me no harm can come by pursuing the usual course with regard to this matter.
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