The gentlemans amendment would not be germane. to start with. because this applies to alien enemies. The gentleinan from Wyoming spoke a while ago about a constituent of his believing for years that he was a citizen. If he was not an alien enemy. that man. under our existing law. could file an application. because the existing law provides for that kind of cases. and he can at once. become naturalized. but these men may have gone on and had their time nearly matured. Six years and nine months may have expired. They have been good. citizeus. and under this bill they have to prove before they can get their. final -paprs that they are good citizens. that they are in sympathy with this country. and this is merely for :the purpose of providing that cases of that kind may be permitted. to get their final.papers. Some of the judges in some of the Western .States have decided that the law was not intended to apply to these cases. and have permitted them to~ tak e their final naturalization pnpers. There is a lack of larmony among tile decisions of the courts on this question. some hoilding they could do it and others holding. they could not. For the purpose of curing all of that the idea of the committee was to allow those who had. .filed their first papers before the war to go on and perfect those papers.
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