Speech #540104179

I am personally acquainted with this man. He was drafted shortly after he came to this country from Norway. He was an ignorant man and he paid the $300 substitute money and went on about his business. He lived in a Norwegian settlement. among foreigners. He lives there now. and probably he did not have much information on the subject for some time. That is all I can state about it personally. The evidence shows that he was drafted and paid the commutation money. that he was not a citizen of the United States. and that he had only recently immigrated from Norway.