But when we come to apply it with qualifications. then what result do we have? The same man. having been elected after the completion of the 9 years requirement as to citizenship. was held qualified to serve. and the Senate admitted him without any question. The October election was for the same term that General Shields had been held not qualified to serve on the ground he had not been naturalized 9 years before its commencement on March 4. It is in accord with the precedent of the December action of the Senate in the Shields case that we submit that the Senate must now seat the claimant from West Virginia. All argument as to what might have happened had this question been raised in some other form before the present claimant attained the required age is not in point here. it is a mere academic discussion.
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