Mr. Speaker. after listening to the explanation made by the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. BovNYNGE] it impresses me that there is need to have the law passed. because if we do not pass it there will be hundreds and thousands of certificates of naturalization held by people throughout the country who believe they have the right to citizenship. and will never know that they have not that right until they make application for a passport or papers of some other similar character. It ias not been the fault of the applicauts that these certificates were not in proper form. but it was the fault of the courts that did not furnish the proper blanks necessary to carry out the law As all the certificates that were issue d prior to the enactment of the law of 1903 were in the samue form as those issued afterwards. that are by this bill sought to be validated. there can not be any great iarul in validating all the certificates. so that all the people. who have taken out certificates will know once and for all that they are fullfledged citizens of the United States.
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