The Senator misunderstood me. I made no such statement. What we are dealing with. if I may say so to the Senator from Massachusetts. is entirely clericalwork. the answering of the long list of questions in the application for naturalization. Shall those answers be made clerically before the clerks of the State court. and then go over to the Federal office for review and investigation. and then come back to the State court for the court to pass upon the naturalization. or shall we do as we have done for the past yearlet that clerical work be done in the Department of Naturalization. which has to do with the review and investigation. and then have the matter sent directly from the Department of Naturalization to the State court for action? The latter is the economical way to do. and. may I say. what has been the result of the last years experience? The cost per capita of every applicant for naturalization in the city of New York has been reduced from 55 cents to 20 cents because of the obvious economy of management. and what more? Before that plan was in operation. 41.500 applications were on file waiting for action. and it took from 18 months to three years to secure action. What has been the result of last years trial?
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