Mr. President. I have today reintroduced a proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States so that when apportioning Representatives in the National House of Representatives aliens who have not completed their naturalization shall not be counted. The Constitution now provides that in apportioning Representatives among the States. the whole number of persons shall be counted. excluding only Indians who are not taxed. The effect of that provision is to give States with large alien populations additional representation in the popular branch of Congress. at the expense of those States whose population is largely made up of nativeborn and naturalized citizens. According to the latest census figures. there are some 14.000.000 foreignborn persons in the United States. Of these nearly 8.000.000 are naturalized citizens. The latter would be counted if the amendment I am proposing should be submitted to the States and should be ratified. More than 1.000.000 of these foreignborn who have taken out first papers would not be counted under the terms of my amendment until they have taken out final citizenship papers.
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