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Those certificates are obtained and are sold to other parties. or the name is erased therefrom and other names inserted. Then. again. an alien who can not answer the questions that will be put to him by the clerk of the court and by the judge of the court will get a friend of his to come in. and he will substitute for the alien demanding the paper. the paper will be issued in the name of the alien requiring it or asking it. but it will be passed by the substitute. on account of the substitute. Then. again. gentlemen. we have this: Aliens who are not entitled on account of age to the final papers (which I here designate as the certificate of naturalization). even though they have been coached up as to the questions that are propounded to them. will go into the court and swear that they are 18 or under the age of 18. so that they can get the final papers without the necessity of having a first paper. So that. gentlemen. they acquire these papers in any manner that they possibly can. An alien will go into court. he will obtain a paper by fraud. because. for instance. his witness will come in and swear that he was under the age of 18 when he arrived in this country. and he himself will corroborate that by swearing that he was under the age of 18. He will take that paper. He may stay here a few years In this country. and then he will go abroad and sell it to another alien friend of his. or if he has an alien friend in Italy whom he wants to bring over to this country. he will send that taper over to Europe. The friend will take that paper and represent imself as a citizen when he passes through the immigration department. Not only that. but when aliens here have finished with their papers. they send them abroad and sell them. So that. gentlemen. it is necessary. in this temporary bill. to provide against certain abuses that we have found out through the prosecution of these cases. There is one other thing of which I want to speak before going farther. and that is the matter of first papers. Under the municipal laws of the city of New York. in order to allow an alien to peddle he must either show the first paperthe declaration of intentionor he must show his certificate of naturalization. Consequently these aliens come in. and they will obtain a first paper. they will go up to the aliens bureau and secure their license. then they will go and dispose of this first paper or declaration of intention to a friend and he will go and get a license. and they will send that from friend to friend. Mr.