To construe the statute to require the literal and absolute following of the entire list of names which the person may have had bestowed upon him would be giving it not only a very narrow -and technical construction. which serves no purpose of the act. but even one which might tend to defeat its real intent. A statement signed " Stephen Grover Cleveland" would not create certainty. but doubt. as to its author. Now. as to an object lession to the Members of the House. I send up to the Speakers desk a list of a few names of citizens of the United States recently naturalized in Pittsburg and ask that it be read.
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