If the Senator from Maine will pardon me. before it is read I will say to him that I did not intend to answer in the broad way he seems to have understood me. The effect of this bill is not to change the status. but it is to afford to Porto Ricans means of changing their status. that is. the effect of the bill is to give them some way in which to become naturalized citizens of the United States. They have no such way now. That is the only purpose of it. It is provided in the bill that if they have lived five years under the jurisdiction of the United States. under the laws of the United States. whether that be in Porto Rico or in the Philippines or elsewhere. they shall. when applying for naturalization in accordance with the laws now in force. be admitted to hiituralization.
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