The second section shows exactly what is meant. when taken in connection with the report of the oommittee on the provisions of the bill. It is calculated to restrict the right of suffrage. It is not intended to prevent undesirable immigrants from becoming citizens of the United States. for our present laws are a sufficient safeguard against them. Its object is to hamper. restrain. and harass any alien who desires to become a citizen by compelling him to submit to regulations which are onerous. expensive. and vexatious. although the committees report says that the real intention of the bill is to enable a foreignborn citizen to point with pride to the fact that he has become a citizen of this great. grand. and glorious Republic.
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