John L Davenport. abundantly shows this. The testimony taken by the committee of the House of Representitives in January. 1879. in which the Senator from Maine [MR. Fr yn] tells us that the committee was completely overwhelmed with the factssnowed undershows that he made complaint against nearly ten thousand persons in the city of New York. against persons whose crime was that they were of foreign birth and held certificates of naturalization which had been issued to them by the superior and supreme courts of that State. The point of the naturalization papers relied upon to establish their illegality was a technical one. to wit. that there was no sufficient entry of the said naturalization made upon the minutes of the court. It would seem that if there was any criminality in this it rested upon the court and its officers. and not uponuthe innocent applicants for naturalization. Upon these complaints more than five thousand warrants were issued by John L Davenport. clerk of the United States court. at the instigation of John . Davenport. chief supervisor. and made returnable before John L Davenport.
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