Certainly. All the certificates and all the forms to be issued in naturalization proceedings are now regulated by the law enacted at the last session. They are all provided by the Federal Government and furnished to the courts that have jurisdiction in such cases. The fault was not with the applicant. The fault was with Congress in the form of the legislation that we had. We allowed this loose method to go on. and. in my judgment. it would now be wrong to work a hardship upon the applicant. not because of any fault of his. but because of our failure properly to regulate naturalization proceedings. thereby depriving many worthy citizens of their right of naturalization when they have in every respect complied with the law. The same reasons that actuated us in correcting the error in the court of Cook County certainly should control us in respect to all other courts. It only affects this one particular feature of the law and does not in any other way validate the certificate. Unless the certificate of naturalization was properly issued in every other respect this law will not validate it. and it only validates the omission of the court. Nothing else is cured or corrected by this legislation. In my judgment the bill ought to pass.
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