A Canadiannot a man with a title. but a man with a tradecomes across the border into Minnesota or one of our border States. falls in love with an Americai girl. marries her. and settles there. and she mirries him for the same reason that good women have married good men at every stage of the worlds history. but the husband does not see fit to renounce his allegiance to the flag of England. The woman discovers that by marrying she has lost her status as an American citizen. She makes a trip to Canada and before going has contracted or while there she contracts tuberculosis or some other disease that would bar her if she had been born in Canada and were emigrating to this country. When she undertakes to come back to her husband she is met by an immigrant inspector who tells her she can not come in. She says. "I was born in the United States. My parents were born in the United States." But the inspector says to her. "You must stay out of the United States because you* are neither native born nor naturalized. you lost your status as a nativeborn person when you married a subject of England." Now. we ought not to allow a thing of that kind. It is not necessary to mar or break up the harmony of this bill by admitting an amendment that will do away with a possible wrong of that sort. Mr.
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