Speech #710018818

I will ask the Senator if it was not fully considered both in the Constitutional Convention and at the time when the fourteenth amendment was drafted. and one other. question which is germane to that: Did not the fathers contemplate the fact. particularly as exhibited in the great ordinance of 1787. that there would be large areas of virgin land to be populated by thousands and millions who would come from across the seas. and did they not anticipate a large influx of immigrants. and during the Civil War and following the Civil War were not the conditions such as to indicate that there would be a large influx of immigrants from beyond the seas who would seek homes in the United States? So that both in the Constitutional Convention and when the fourteenth amendment was drafted. did not our fathers and those who were in the Legislature contemplate the fact that there would be a large influx of immigrants. and that they should be counted in the question of census and of apportionment?