Thatright can only be acquired through legislation. But there is another citizenship. as to which the word is used in the same sense as is the term "subject" in monarchical countries. If Senators will examine the reports they will see that the Supreme Court has decided that under our immigration laws the people of Porto Rico are not aliens. and I think. under the fourteenth amendment. they are clearly citizens of the United States in the broad general sense. If Senators will examine the case of Governor Boyd. of Nebraska. I think they will find the principles laid down in that case which will cover this case. There is such a thing as naturalization by the incorporation of one country as a part of another country. Where we incorporate a country and make it a part of our own we make the people of that country citizens of our own. Having this view of the case.
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