The mans term of residence has commenced abroad. but it concludes after the act. The act says when any naturalized citizen shall have resided five years continuously in a foreign country it shall be presumed he is. etc.. and therefore one month from the date of the passage of this act he will become in a condition where he " shall haves" resided five years abroad and ceased to be a citizen. -and you take away American citizenship from that large class of people who are abroad and know nothing of this and give them no chance. Further than that. it seems to me very doubtful whether a man once naturalized can have any more rights taken away from him than can be taken away from a nativeborn citizen. for citizenship is citizenship whether citizenship through being born here or having been naturalized here. I grant we had the power to pass wvhat we did In the naturalization law. saying that a man must swear when he makes his declaration of intention and petition that he intends to reside here permanently. and then. if within five years he went abroad and remained abroad. that was presumptive evidence that his initial oath was perjury. and the courts could declare after notice that he never had become a citizen.- There is decision after decision with. which my colleague from New York is unquestionably familiar. that we can make no distinction between the rights and privileges granted a nativeborn citizen and a naturalized citizen. and I think. with all due respect. that he has made section 3 too broad. The rest of the bill. I think. is all right. but section 3 has too much to it.
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