The other day when we had the $50.000.000 bill under consideration. and when we heard so much truly patriotic talk. I sat silently in my seat thinking that my vote would. perhaps. be the most eloquent speech I could make on the subject. But ever since that time I have patiently waited for some one to rise in his seat. not himself an adopted citizen. who would feel called upon to do justice to the true sentiments of that numerous element of our population which has become part and parcel of our body politic through the process of naturalization. Somehow I felt that these people had a right to expect such vindication. and really there is none of us too great to do them reverence. There is not a man on this floor who does not represent some of them. and who does not know that they bled upon every American battlefield from Lexington to Appomattox.
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