President. I desire to say one word. as unanimous consent was given to the Senator from Alabama to make the statement which he has made. It is quite unusual to debate measures of this kind upon their first introduction into the Senate. and I do not wish to depart from the usage. but in view of the impassioned statement which has been made by my honorable friend. it is proper for me to say that this bill is. in substance. a modification and perfection of a system which has been the law of the United States for many years. and which has secured in the main honest elections and honest counts in the great city of New York. where. before the measure of which this is a reenactment and improvement was placed upon the statutebook. at one election 60.000 fraudulent naturalization papers had gone out from two judges dated within the space of three days. and where a well known and most influential person in that city. who ruled it as with a rod.of ironI allude to William M. Tweed--declared that he did not care how the voting was done if he could only do the counting. I am told on high authority that since this system has been in vogue there has not been any election contest in any Congressional district. assembly district. or senatorial district at any election held under that law in the State of New York.
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