Speech #600006047

President. I do not know that I can state in any more concise language than the committee have stated it in their report giving their reasons for the change. Section 83 was reported in the form in which it appears for the following reasons: Section 83 : The new matter added to this section Is for the purpose of making clear the right to punish violations of the five preceding sections. even though the court in which the proceeding Is had or taken had no jurisdiction In naturalization proceedings. If the Senator will recur to the five preceding sections and give attention to the character of the offenses enumerated in those sections. it will be apparent to him that the amendment suggested by the committee was necessary in order to make effective those sections. otherwise it would have been necessary to make a special reference to the jurisdiction of the court in each of those sections. It was in order that the subject might be consolidated in one section for convenient reference that the committee reported the lines in italics.