Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. I think gentlemen confound the judicial proceedings with naturalization proceedings. The fact is that the United States and Canada. so far as I know. are the only countries in the world that use the courts at all for the naturalization of aliens. It is really an executive and not a judicial proceeding In all other countries it is done through the department of state. and probably would have been in this country had it not been for the fact that our Department of State has no machinery scattered all over the country. and for the lack of machinery the original statute in regard to naturalization conferred this power upon the courts. It partakes somewhat of a judicial proceeding it is true. and the courts have held that a decree admitting an alien to naturalization has the force and effect of a judgment. But in its essence the proceeding is really not judicial. it is executive. With the words of this section stricken out that have been stricken out by the amendment.
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