Shoemaker in the hearings at the time he testified before the Appropriation Committee. when lie urged that the appropriation for that bureau should be increased: During the fiscal year there were 166.925 civilian petitions filed in the various courts throughout the country. That is an increase of approximately 65 per cent over the civilian petitions filed in the preceding year. which totaled 107.000. That does not Include the Soldiers or the cases where alien soldiers in the Army were naturalized under the act of May. 1918. There were over 51.000 of those certificates issued to alien soldiers. from the figures I have been able to obtain. There was an increase this year in the filing of petitions anywhere from 20 to 36 per cent.
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