I should be obliged if the gentleman would allow me to proceed without interruption. These frauds there were largly carried on and were checked if not extirpated by the supervisors law. Where they still exist they are the product of the great Northern cities and Northern States where foreign immigration chiefly comes. Mr. Speaker. I do not think we can put too high a value on the gift of American citizenship. I believe that this should be more sacredly guarded than anything else that we have to give. and any law which checks naturalization can: not be too rigid or too widely extended and enforced. Now. in case it should occur to any one to say that this is merely the substitution of one set of officers in the interests of one party for another set of officers in the interests of another party. and that the results are no more reliable in one case than in the other. I desire to call the attention of the House to the fact that it has never been shown that any legal voter has ever been interfered with in his right to vote in the city of New York since that time by the law appointing United States supervisors.
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