I want to make a brief explanation of this amendment. and I may say that in a sense the amendment is offered not only by myself. but by the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts the minority leader. Several months ago the secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts called to see our distinguished minority leader and myself. A case arose where a person in Massachusetts was seeking naturalization and one of his witnesses was a gentleman about 45 years of age. Of course. he certified that he was a citizen and the naturalization officials looked into it and found that he came into this country as a child and his father had become naturalized while he was a minor. but in his fdthers application for naturalization he had overlooked inserting this childs name. If he had done this. this party would have become what is known as a derivative citizen through the naturalization of the father .hile the child was still a minor. Of course. this person has been exercising his duties as a citizen. including voting. upon the assumption he was a citizen. There are countless thousands of cases like this throughout the country. so I am informed.
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