The following is the analysis of the force bill: I shall now proceed as briefly as possible to give an analysis of the bill by sections. The first section continues in office all of the present chief supervisors. but section 22 excepts from that rule such chief supervisors as are. on the passage of the bill. clerks of either the United States circuit or district courts. The chiefs to be continued and the chief supervisors to be hereafter appointed. one for each judicial district throughout the United States. are charged with supervision of Congressional elections and the prevention of frauds in elections. irregularities in naturalization. and with enforcement of the election laws. Under section 2. in any town or city containing a population of 20.000 or upwards. or in any entire Congressional district. on the petition of "one hundred persons claiming to be citizens and qualified voters." or upon the petition of fifty such persons claiming to be citizens or qualified voters in one or more counties or parishes of any Congressional district. the chief supervisor shall take action to secure supervision therein as provided by the laws of the United States. which means that when the chief presents these petitions to the circuit court the judge has no discretion but to grant them. And the third section provides that the chief may notify the judge and require him to convene the circuit court at the chiefs dictation for the appointment of such supervisors as he may need. in his discretion. for the supervision of the election.
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