Speech #670012138

The gentleman calls up from the Speakers table Senate joint resolution 38. a similar House resolution having been reported from the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization before the Senate resolution was messaged over. The Clerk will report the resolution. Senate joint resolution 38. admitting Emil S. Fischer to the rights and privileges of a citizen of the United States. was read. as follows: Whereas Emil S. Fischer. born In Austria in 1865. emigrated from Brazil and arrived in the United States at the port of New York and established a permanent residence in the city of New York in 1892. and Whereas said Emil S. Fischer. being then a resident of the city of New York. did on the 4th day of November. 1903. apply to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and receive his first citizenship papers. and Whereas said Emil S. Fischer. while maintaining continuously his said residence in New York City. has sojourned in China. representing American banking and commercial Interests. fostering American trade expansion. among other things acting as adviser and foreign secretary to the Chinese Government commission at the San Francisco Exposition and for the Chinese alien property custodian during the late war. and Where"s the absence of said Emil S.