Who on earth would investigate each case and find out whether all the other requirements of the law had been complied with? Who would know? Here you propose to enact a general sweeping ratification and validation. There is nobody whose duty it would be to investigate to ascertain whether the other requirements had been complied with. But. Mr. Speaker. this particular requirement was the most important that the law imposed. that there must be an affidavit reciting affirmatively the truth of all the facts necessary to naturalization. If that affidavit has not been filed. they are not entitled to naturalization and never ought to have been granted certificates conferring that right and privilege.
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