They have also held. time and again. that there is only one power that can raise the question of alienship at all. and that is the Government itself. This proposition is to clothe these litigants in the Cape Nome region with the power to use the name of the United States to attack certain claims. If we were intending to legislate at all upon this question. if we Were going outside to legislate as to the rights of these individuals. we ought. on the contrary. to pass a law that these men who located claims in good faith. believing themselves to have taken the necessary steps toward naturalization. should have valid claims and that their assignees should be protected. Their evidence has been filed in the proceedings in the Senate committee. in which they show that they. in absolute good faith. believed that they had- taken the first proper step toward naturalization. that they did it before a United States commissioner. and. having afterwards taken the claims. they had a right to sell them. Other parties bought their claims. Afterwards other men come in now and attempt to jump those claims and take them away.
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