What is left of it is too much out of line with this bill for both to survive. For instance. it provided that an alien who was smuggled into the country could be fined and imprisoned. while this bill proposes to give vast numbers of such people the privileges and responsibilities of American citizenship and allows them to bring in great numbers of nonquota relatives. which they can not now do. Time will not permit me to discuss all of the bad things contained in this bill. but one of them is found in subdivisions (c). (d). and (e) of section 6. the last of which provides for the repeal of section 10 of the naturalization act of 1906. as amended. and section 2170 of the Revised Statutes. The latter section provides thatNo alien shall be admitted to become a citizen who has not for a continued term of five years next preceding his admission resided within the United States. The law now permits an alien seamon employed in the Navy of the United States or on any vessel of United States registry or enrollment to become naturalized after a service of three years. without proof of any residence within the territorial limits of the United States. This law was probably enacted in an effort to Americanize aliens in the Navy and merchant marine of the country. but the privilege went to none but such as were employed on vessels of United States registry. That limitation is removed by this delightful measure. so that harbor boats and yachts have to keep their alien crews only thr ee years before they can have them become American citizens.
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