I would say that a statute of that kind standing. as has been stated. on the basis of a lack of an international treaty regarding this subject. would seem to determine the action of the House to be all sufficient. but. with the State Department in the midst of negotiations which have not been completed. and such negotiations involving the correspondence in regard to the general subject. it not yet being a settled question. I ask any intelligent gentleman in this House if he would think it wise at this time for the State Department to promulgate this tentative arrangement which has progressed so far that within a few days a circular has been issued from the Department that passports will be granted generally to anyone who applies. and will not be refused. as they have been for the past four years. because *of their desire to protect naturalized citizens from any oppression that might come to them in that country where conditions are so unsettled as they are in Russia.
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