Let me call the attention of the Committee to the bill in certain particular respects. Like other members of the Rules Committee. I felt that it would have been a very simple matter to have reported a bill from the Immigration Committee granting equality to both sexes in the matter of children born abroad. and that it could be done in about five lines. The Cable Act could have been amended to the effect that the children born of an American woman who was a citizen should have the same rights as the children born of an American man who was a citizen. That would have ended it. that would have accomplished the purpose of the bill. it would have accomplished what the women of this country so strenuously request. This bill. however. contains some matters which do not pertain to the issue of equality of sexes. They pertain more properly to immigration legislation. In the first place. the proviso at the bottom of page 1. line 9. in my opinion. is grossly unfair. It isgrossly unfair to single out any race and take away from it what the male members of that race now possess. their right to devolve citizenship upon their children. to take away from them existing rights.
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