If the gentleman from Massachusetts will pardon me. I will state that instead of reducing the fees I have been all the time in favor of increasing them. The fees are now so low that the clerks in the courts in the interior. where they have little of this business to do. have refused to take naturalization cases and have the papers on hand for the courts to pass upon. In my own town the clerks in our own courts have returned the papers. You can not force a State court to do it. and men are forced to go to Birmingham or somewhere else for the purpose of reaching a Federal court at great cxpeuse. because the fees are so insignificant that the clerks in the interior will not take them.
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