I do this. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. for the purpose of calling attention to the facts stated here in the discussion this afternoon in connection with naturalization and the laws within the respective States giving the right of suffrage to unnaturalized aliens. My information is that very few of the States confer that right under their present statutes. Formerly a great many States did not allow any declarant alien the privilege of voting. Among those were my own State. Texas. and several others. which I do not recall at this moment. but Texas has during recent years ended that practice and now requires that the foreign born be naturalized in order to vote. My information is that every State which formerly permitted declarants to vote has amended its laws in that respect. so that none of them now allows declarants the right of suffrage. If there are any States which now permit declarant aliens to vote.
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