The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-22

the FOREGOING public law Which have been
regard the rights Citizens 0 on''0 "
Pausng here let ask what efforts to secure recognition
by other Governments would be just and who is to determine
that usice Is the President foreign Governments to be
the judge of their business? 1t is plain that in this bill the
whole matter left to executive discretion has hereto
fore been and the oppressed may still langush in prison
indefinitely while the State Department is still making
efforts" But this is ALL The recognition roon;red of
other Governments is of the forepoino nrnonloa III,
law that have been "heretofore asserted And what prn
cples have been heretofore assered Except by the nat
urazaton laws the making power has never asserted
any principles upon this subject. The Judiciary upon
direct has decided this question: and the words
to executive action. The gentleman from Iowa Mr. Viii
SON shows concusvey that the last clause neuralized
the declarations of the first that will repeat the argu
further than to ask what principles of public law
have been heretofore asserted by the Executive Depart
of this Government? Mr. Everett Secretary of State
in dispatch of July H. 1853 says of German who had
returned his native land and sought protection against
incorporation into the army of Prussia:
of the from her s
complain those laws his
General Glass; Secretary of State in 1885, in writing
of similar to that of Mr.. Everett, says:
The moment foreigner becomes nSuraized his aeganceo
m tho e ne a
oharactera ''H''
by the Executive Department of this Government Will the
chairman of the Committee Foreign Relations Mr..
bill refers? The bill itself does not say He could not have
intended to insist upon BOTH The conferred by this
clause upon the President not to enforce the first decar
ton only those principles which have been Heretofore
asserted and what those have shown by these quota
TONS All the vgor in the bill having been exhausted in
these portions of the first section restrictions limitations
and provos begin which in conflict with the principle
declared the of the bill though the
weak enough must be further neualized
The bill refuses protection to naturaized citizens under
tain circumstances first that no citizen of the United
States who guilty of any crime against the laws of any
foreign State committed within its jurisdiction"
There occasion for this provso The law and comfy
of nations determine this question beyond dispute Every
sovereignty has this power and has been questioned
by this any other civilized country Why, them force it
into this bill pass the entire failure define what
shall constitute the crime for which protection is with
drawn from the czensa very important feature if tbs
provso is to be enacted into law. England may declare
that it is crime for naturalized citizen land her
Shores attach crimnaty any other act of naurazed
citizen right in itself Should she do them under the
provisions of this BILL all protection to citizens is de-
stroyed.
Mr. Speaker this provso goes further From the Ian
gage of the United States is forbidden to that for
eign laws Justly administered when citizen is charged
with crime in foreign land. Can it be that to
pass bill usying Great Britain in her refusal to
allow citizens the benefit the laws they stand upon
her statutebook?
Here the hammer fell On resuming he said j
At the close of the morning hour yesterday, had COM
menced criticisms upon the bill under considera
ton Before proceed with those criticisms this morning
desire read short from letter which received
this morning from of the most prominent Germans in
the Northwest in relation to this bill. He writes:
Much better kill it 1.-THE get better The
left Why does he make adopted
citizens ?"
With that statement propose to proceed with the crl-
csms upon that bill which had prepared before the receipt
of that letter. had passed SO much of the bill as is
contained in the first and second clauses of the first secon
and had demonstrate that they in conflict
with each other now propose to crcse the provso ac-
companying the first section and call the attention of hon
orable members the language used in that proviso.
The second clause in the proviso reads as follows
Or actual service in the and such
State any military or naval CONSUMPTION that shall have
actually ordered