Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. at the suggestion of General Burnett. the United States district attorney for the southern district of New York. with the assistance of Mr. Marx. the special assistant United States district attorney. who was assigned especially to prosecute these naturalization cases. I drafted this bill No. 12762. simply as a temporary measure. You can all realize that a question as important as this Isthat Is. the naturalization of alienswill require a great deal of consideration. because it Is a very important matter. The question of making aliens citizens goes right into the vitals of this country. So that in drafting this bill I studied very carefully the laws that we already have and tried to keep those laws as nearly as possible what they are today. but to simply remedy such defects as our experience in the city of New York during the past eight months led us to believe should be remedied in the statutes as they now stand. by amending certain of the statutes of the United States. In order to give you an Idea of the evils of naturalization. I will simply run over the sublact very hastily. as I find my time Is short. so that when I come to speck of these diderent paragraphs you can know what I am talking about. It seems that last March an alien appeared as a witness for a friend of his who desired to become a citizen of the United States.
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