Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-12-27


OREGON.
SENATE.--Thc annual treasury report was pre-
scented, and FIVE hundred copies were ordered.
The revenue for the fiscal year, ending on the
Both of June last was S30,35i 200 o. received
from the following sources viz
From customs, s26,lo3,57O %
From the public land 2059030 50
Miscellaneous sources 26l 007 81
Treasury notes and loans under
act of March 3, 1913, 1877, 1sl So
Making an aggregate of 303Sl 200 03
The expenditures during the same
period, including Sl2,99S,77354
on account of the public debt
were $32,95ss27 81
Exceeding the years receipts by 2,577 1877 81
This latter amount deducted from
the sum remaining in the treasu.
ry, July !, 1913, of $iO,434507 SIS
Left balance on hand July |,
1914 of s7657,379 "a
The revenue for the year ending June 30, 1916
is estimated at S3i,20i,s74 SO, making with the
balance in the Treasury S42,062,254 81
Estimated expenses, 35,0I9,43l 06
Leaving bal in the treasury Of 7,042S23 81
The existing debt on the LIST of July last was
$24,74S,lSS %, and on the lst of December pre-
coding it was 1913 S50,673 03. low this can be-
when the report states that nearly ID millions were
paid on the public debt in the year ending on the
Both Of June last, we do not understand
The imports during the fiscal year ending on
the Both of June, 1914, are valued as follows:
Free Of duty, S24.76G,O82 90
Paying duty, S3,6SS,G20 90
Total imports IOS43i702 co
The exports for tie same tine we're:
OF domestic products, SlC0,1S3,497 90
OF foreign merchandise, 10,944,7S1 co
Total exports, 1II,l2s27s co
The number of passengers arrived from foreign
countries for the year ending Sept. 80 was SAGA
of which 4S,S97 were males, and 30 S64 females ;
59,762 arrived at New York.
Mr.. Johnson of Louisiana offered a resolution
insructng the committee on the Judiciary'to in
quire into the eXpedcncy Of altering the NATURAL
zation Laws, extending the time of residence in the
country previous TO being admitted to citizenship
and to prohibit emigration Of foreign convicts to
this country.
Mr.. Johnson briefly stated why lie had offered it.
1t was notorious, at any rate it every where
asserted, that enormous frauds had been committed
at the late election, Just previous to it, in the
admission of foreigners to the rights of citizenship
il asserted that over three tn )usand had zen
naturazed in very few days in the city of New
York, and great numbers in Philadep hia and other
places. He had no wish to interfere with those
who already naturalized, or who had declared
their intention to become citizens, but he wished
to restrain the enormous influx of ignorant and de-
based persons into this country. In the earl days
Of our republic, when this country was q Compare
tive Wilderness there was good reason and sound
policy for encouraging emigration from abroad, but
there were not the same reasons now for atording
the same facilities to become citizens. The great
mass of those who come to this country were ig
norant and unaccustomcd to republican institutions;
some there were who were well informed but
these exceptions we must look at the great
mass. lie was opposed to extending to these
swarns of ignorant the civil rights of citizens,
until they had been III this country long enough TO
comprehend and understand our institutions, and
acquire an attachment to them and to the country.
1t was enough he thought. that they had all other
rights save that of voting He was in favor of pas
sing a law which should prevent foreign govern
ments from transporting their convicts to shores
and spewing them out upon us. lie did not look
upon this as party question, but one rising above
all party considerations,
Mr. Allen said that as the country generally did
not know that it was customary to allow all resolu
tons of inquiry to pass sub Sdentio, he merely
wished TO say that in making opposition to the
passage of the resolution, he did not wish to be un
derstood giving his assent to it, especially to the
first part of it, as he opposed TO extending the
time required of foreigners TO reside here in order
to become citizens. He hoped the committee would
embody their views in the form of direct PROPOSE
ton.
Mr. Archer said he was extremely glad that this
subject had been brought to the notice of the coun-
try in this grave form. Had no other Senator
brought it before this body he should have felt it
his duty to do so. 1t is question, said Mr. a., in
my conscience, believe has become the most i'm
portant of any question before the Amer!c IN peo-
pie it is issue that comprehends every other is
sue and he agreed with the Senator from Ohio in
the hope that the Judiciary Committee would bring
forward some definite proposition for amending the
Naturalization Laws, removing the evils, and pre-
venting the abuses which have grown out of them
and which have become serious and alarming.
Mr.. Riyes SAID that it had become evident that
we must have some further safeguards against
the evils and abuses of our Naturalization Laws,
and he believed it to be the bounden duty Of Con-
gress to afford the freest scope TO inquiry on this
subject. That frauds and abuses Of the most enor-
nous kind have been committed he had not par
tcle Of doubt,
Mr.. r. thought that his friend from Louisiana
would find an ample remedy for the abuses he had
spoken Of in the re-enactment of the laws enacted
under Jefferson and Madison, and which were re-
pealed under Mr.. Monroe and Mr.. Adams. Those
laws required the registration of the immigrant
when he arrived in this country, together with
minute description of his person, his age, birth
place, &c. and the production Of copy of this at
the time Of his application for naturalization, so
that there could be no mistake as 10 the person,
nor fraud as to the time he had been in the country
He was not for departing lightly from the path pur-
sued by our fathers. During fifty years, with the
exception of one Presidential lustrum when the
period was increased to fourteen years, under the
elder Adams,) the period of probation required has
been FIVE years There had been no complaint of
the abuses now existing, until the facilities for
Naturalization had been increased by the repeal Of
the laws he had referred to, and he still thought that
the re-enactment of those laws would put stop to
the enormous frauds of which the whole country
complained.
The mode of naturalizing foreigners had degen
Grated into piece of legerdemain--a piece Of
pantomime; he had heard of plaoons Of foreigners
being marched into court room, and there at the
desk of side clerk, being transformed in in
credibly short time, into American citizens, the
clerk mumbling rapidly something in language
which the foreigners did not understand, and the
latter swearing to it. This was mere mockery,