New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-19
TILE N1rrR1LLzATION Bill.

! State Election Is TO be heId III IohH'''I'"'
on the first Monday in April aud that State
ENJOYS the unenviable distinction OF beng
| alone infested by journal which can compress
more deliberate. willful, wicked, yilainous lies
into q SQUARE inch than any other that Is or
ever was printed. We need not name 1t, since
Connecticut people will know it by the above
description, and others will wisely choose to
remain unconscious of its existence. inns
journal. in the hope Of thereby swelling the
Democratic minority at the pending election
kccps calling on the aliens residing in that state
70 hurry up their naturalization, because a bill
il, before Congress, and certain to pass, which
will oblge those who have already declared
their intentions to begin atresh and wait fire
yrqIs before they can be admitted to ctzen-
,L5, Tie reference is of course TO Judge
Davi,s bin lH. Il. 1880, as reported by him
March D 1870 from the judiciary Committee
TO tire House. and, being read twice, recon-
m..ted DIS thc House to that Committee. Now
let us, with the Dill, before us, state exactly
what e docs propose with regard 20 the con-
Iacu- of Naturalization;
81 ANY alien, who SHALL with intent 20 he
come citizen. u.. resided three gears within
t-r Union ud SIS month. within State, and
tuIg, da.- nlau 81. county or parish, may
apply fol ,dui.. ion to citizenship to the Fed
cral Circuit OF District Court Of his district, for
Naturalization.
%. /. no such Court be held in his county
or parish then he may apply to "dny court OF
competent jurisdiction in each State Terri
q" tory, or District, having Il clerk and seal
thereof, which holds stated or regular
court for the trial of civil causes in such
county or parish
SO. Upon due proof that he is entitled to citi-
zcnship as aforesaid, "thc said Court shall
"thcrcupon adiudgc that be be admitted to all
''thc privileges of citizenship at the expiration
"of six months from the date of such judg-
"mcnt.'
Tile above are all the provisions of the bill
which affect the probation required of each
alien before ne can be admitted to citizenship;
and, instead OF extending his term of proba-
ton, this bill actually reduces it. Now, a
man who first applies for admission to
citizenship must wait trO gears before
he can receive II; this bill reduces that prOba-
ton to sir months. Let us suppose that an
alien resident declared his intentions last No
vember, he must then have resided three years
i'm this country; yet ne cannot, unless the law
be changed, be admitted to citizenship till one
year from next Fall but, if Judge DavisS bill
passes, he may perfect his Naturalization at
the next term of Court, and be legal voter
at the Connecticut State Itection which is to
be held on the first Monday in April, 1871 ;
whereas, if this bill should not pass, he will
be denied the privilege of voting for Repre-
sentatiyes in the next Congress, which its pas
sage will secure to him.
We might pursue the exposure; but need
we? We do not know that Judge Daviss bill
will pass we do not advocate its passage
but the ann and purpose of this bill is emf
nently Just and righteous, being the protection
of the rights of American citizens, whether
native or naturalzed, from the infamous
frauds both wholesale and retail, whereby our
State was shinged over in October, 1868, with
bogus Naturalization Certificates, fabricated by
the reaTn, and dealt out at - singly or SIS
per dozen, 10 whomsOever gave satisfactory as
surances that they should be so used as to
help swindlc Gen. Grant out of the votes of
Newly orll and New-Jefsey Is there an honest
man of any party who does not consider it
high time that such frauds were somehow
arrested