I will say. Mr. Chairman. that that matter was presented to the coimittee. The committee did not feel -that it would be just. for the reason that in many States the Federal courts only sit in one city. "In some of the Western States the cities where the Federal court may hold its session is* sometimes hundreds of miles from where the alien may live. and would require the alien to go to that place at great expense in order to be naturalized. and we felt that we might put in the provision we have. which gives the State courts of the highest original jurisdiction of every State and the Federal courts the power. so that there would be a court in every county in every State of .the United States that could naturalize. and that was as liberal as we could be. and we ought to be that liberal. That was the object of the amendment.
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