I have listened enraptured. as Members of the House always do. to the eloquent words of the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania. but this question has nothing to do with the present situation that confronts us in Mexico. or as an incentive to enlistment. and whether it stays in this bill or not. It would not add one iota to the inducement to enlistment in the Navy. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is an authority on matters pertaining to naturalization because he is a distinguished member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. I am surprised in this particular instance that he has not refreshed his memory so as to really know what the amendment purposes to do. There is at present a law on the statute book that gives the seamen in the Navy and the Marine Corps the privilege of taking out citizenship papers after they have served five years.
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