President.- it is true. in my opinion. that while the frauds upon the elections in the North. such as exist. are largely perpetrated in the great cities. in the South they are largely perpetrated in the rural districts. and that fact. susceptible of easy proof. if proof were necessary. rendersincomplete and inefficient. when applied to the country at large. the existing law. and calls for the passage of a law increasing its efficiency. � I must go very quickly through this bill. to consider as I go along some of the objections which have been urged to it. and I want to say nowthat some of the criticismswhich have been made as to the phraseology of the bill in certain particulars I share. By the first section the chief supervisors now in office and those to be hereafter appointed by the circuit judges of the United States. and they must be circuit court commissioners. are charged in their respective judicial districts with what? The supervision of elections at which Representatives or Delegates in Congress are voted for. with the enforcement of the national election laws. and with the prevention of frauds and irregularities in naturalization. If we are to have any Federal law upon the subject of Federal elections those are elements which cohfessedly ought to enter into it and those are functions which ought to be conferred upon the Federal agencies appointed to supervise or to conduct them. Section 2 provides how this actshall be put into operation. and upon that the Senator from Delaware and the Senator from Virginia based a legal argument to which I desire to refer for a moment when I come to it: SEc. 2.
Keywords matched
naturalization