Any violence perpetrated against them that could be charged to race prejudice or religious animosity may form a basis for representations by the government to which they owe allegiance. The gentleman from Colorado must remember that only a few years ago in the city of New Orleans the lynching of some Italians became the subject of an acute diplomatic crisis. which this country settled by the payment of a large sumI think It was $25.000to the relatives of the victims. Had these men been naturalized they would have been entitled to the same protection as all their fellows and no more. Their security would have concerned no government but that of the State in which they lived. No alien government could have asked a question about them.
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