Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-02-25
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4oprint 5000 copies of the Message of Govern.
or Lyon, together with the correspondence be-
tween the Mayor and Governor, the Governors
Proclamation and the joint resolutions of the
General Assembly. Mr.. Mackubin moved to
add the vote on the said resolutions Mr.. Kidd
Moved to except all but the message and cores
pondence. Mr.. Belt moved 10000 copies, all
otMhich amendments were lost and the orderof
Mr.. Grieves adopted-yeas So; nays-Messrs.
Dnvall, Worthington, Barnard, and Mounts.
The resolutions. of Mr.. Contee relative to
Kansas were taken up. Mr. Contee moved to
make them the special order for Friday. Mr..
Stirling moved to lay the motion on the table
lost. He then moved to indefinitely postpone
the resolutions. This motion was also lost
before a vote was taken on Mr.. Contee's motion
to make them the order of the day for Friday
The Speaker announced the order of the day,
being the bill to provide for the inspection of
all manures sold by the cart-load It was a.
niended and rejected for want of constitution
al majority. On motion of Mr.. Alexander, it
was reconsidered. . -zxs=H IA Z
Mr.. Alexander's bill to prohibit State Courts
from receiving declarations of intentions and is
suing certificates of naturalization came up as
the second order of the day.
Mr.. Belt moved to strike out the enacting
posed would operate as notification of the
law Of Congress, as Congress alone under the
Constitution had power to six an uniform rule
Of naturalization, ;. and everything like uniform
ity would be destroyed if the State were to pass
laws like that proposed.
Mr.. Stirling thought that by rule of natu-
Talzation was intended the time &C.. upon
which the foreigner obtained the privilege and
that the portion of the act giving the power of
naturalization to State Courts is merely permits
sive. The State judges are responsible to their
own State alone, and are not under obligation
to perform any duties4which prevent them from
performing his duties to his State. 1t is the
right of the State to define the duties of it's own
officers, and. it is not to be expected that she
viii stand quietly if the case should happen
that the duties of the State Courts under the act
ofCongress should interfere with their duties as
State officers. Congress says that the State
Courts have Jurisdiction in the cases spoken of
It says that certificates of naturalization SO is
sund shall be good, but if the State Courts re-
American party in the House, he thought, hat
shown within the last few day, that it woult
not vote for any measure whatever, merely be
cause it was proposed as an embodiment of it
party views. In the city Of Baltimore ther
were four Courts, and It was possible for ont
man to be naturalzed in each Of the four unde
6feTent names, and thus make four citizens GU
otone. m s asfsI
Mr.. Belt Thought no Judge in the State hal
Che right to refuse to naturalize. The rule es
tahlishes certain conditions to be complied with
and as one OF the conditions, part Of the ruiz
and 81 the essence Of it, was this one, the very
fsskInamed IA the law. II the act be permits.
slsr ,dhe State has accepted the law by asforna'