In the first place. when a man files his petition he must file a certificate from the Department of Commerce and Labor. showing when he arrived. and all about himself. Having filed that. there can be no purpose and no good in having anybody here in Washington compare his petition and his certificate with the original record. It will only duplicate the expense. as the gentleman from New York has properly said. It will take an army of clerks to examine every petition. and while everybody. I suppose. is in favor of preventing fraudulent naturalizations. it is not worth while to put the United States Government to this extraordinary expense for nothing.
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