Speech #560076550

It is not a controversy between a Laplander and a citizen of the United States. It is a controversy between one citizen of the United States and another citizen. One of these citizens of the United States the gentleman proposes to legislate out. because he bought. as the gentleman says. from somebody who had not formally or properly taken out his papers of naturalization. or the preliminary declaration to become a citizen of the United States. I am amazed that nIy friend should inject this sort of a proposition into a bill for the revision of the laws after it has been rejected in the Senateabandoned there after weeks of debatethat he should now bring it up in the closing hours of this session upon a bill of 600 pages and seek to make a rule of law for Alaska that has never been proposed in any 9ther State or Territory of the Union. and to make this rule of law. as he tells us. apply to six claims of six individuals. He says there are controversies between sixomen on one side and six men on the other.