I rise for the purpose of moving to strike out section 4 of the bill. Mr. Chairman. I would not place the whole responsibility of good citizenship upon courts or officers whose duty it is to see that the citizenship of the United States is guarded in every possible manner when naturalizing aliens. I would preserve a high standard of citizenship by closer inspection of immigrants rather than by creating complicated machinery for the naturalization of those who have been admitted to our shores. Now. Mr. Chairman. what a humiliating spectacle it would be to see a bureau clerk go Into the courts of the several States of the Union clothed with power to take the judge from his bench and the clerk from his desk and put them on the carpet and bring them to book at his will and pleasure.
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