Perhaps my statement was broader than I myself intended. This is What I mean: I chance to remember one case. of which I had charge. of a couple of gentlemen reared here in the city of Washington. They came here with their father when they were infants. they were active business men. who had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in real estate in the District of Columbia. but when an abstract office was called upon for an abstract of title to certain real estate. which had come to them regularly by conveyance. it was ascertained that the father. with whom they came to this country as infants. had never been naturalized. and that therefore they were aliens technically. though they had been reared right here. identified with this community from their early boyhood. living here. and engaged in large business in the District. Whilst I would not open the door to aliens universally. I think some general law ought to provide for the case of actual residents who are engaged in business here and whose homes are here. whether or not they had been technically citizens of the United States.
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