New-York tribune., 1874-04-24
HOUSE OF REPREsENrATIvEs.

Mr.. SOUTHARD Dem, Omo) offered resOlu-
ton nstructing the Committee on Banking and Cur
tency to inquire and report the reasons why the
81 OoOo Of National bank currency authorized TO be
Withdrawn from the States having more than their pro-
PORTION has not been withdrawn and distributed under
the PROVISIONS OF the act OF July H. 1870, and what
further legislation is necessary to that result
Referred TO the Committee on Banking and Currency,
after remark by Mr.. MAYNARD (Rep, Tenn) that
the Committee already had the subject under con-
Mi BECK Dem, Ky) offered resolution calling for
Information the subject from the Secretary OF
the Treasury. Referred 70 the same Committee
Mr.. HEREFORD (Dem., W. Va) introduced bill pro-
vdng that the tax State banks shall not be other or
greater than the tax National banks Same reference
TIE BILL RELATING TO CITIZENSHIP.
Tue House then took up the bin reported yesterday
from the Committee Foreign Affairs, concerning cit
senshp and the rights Of United States citizens in for
eisn countries.
MI ORTIZ Rep Ind), g member OF the Committee on
Foreign Affairs addressed the House in advocacy Of the
bi and expressed surprise the attack
made upon Il Yesterday by Mr. Cox Dem, N. W,
another member OF the Committee. That attack had
S detraeted from RS i5e value Of American cscnship
second, that IL would tend 10 discourage Immigration
statute bocE E" the princpies OF the feuda system
He declared that the bill properly liable to
have favored much agreed to report it to the
House favorable action He that did not
make particle of distinction between the rights Of
native born and naturaZed citizens, and that II In
American legislation on the subject Of natural allie
glance The objections made by the gentleman from
NewYOrk yesterdayhad struck him being madelInOre
the OF firing the German heart than OF
eidane the principles Of the BILL seeking to amend
n But he MIR Ortiz undertook TO demonstrate that
there was nothing iin the bill pn derogaon of the
rgbts OF any naturallzed citizen ~
One objection WAS 20 that clause OF the bill which de-
ere AZ not subject the Jurisdiction OF the United
Btates, naturalzed citizens who may by the terms OF
any treaty regarded as having resumed their original
nationality What reasonable objection could there be
10 bati The naturahzed citizen who returned TO the
country Of his birth and who by virtue OF treaty stpu
latons denatiOnalized himself thereby dld so oy his
own voluntary act But the create objection MADE by
some German journals 10 this country Is 10 thit CLAUSE
81 the b which declares not SUBJECT 10 the Iuisuc-
ton OF the United States nauraized citizens VINO, on
returning 20 their native country may be convicted OF
onepses against the laws Of that country committed
PRIOR 70 their arrival III the United States He Claimed.
ara proved by reference TO treaties that that clause was
only IN consonance with existing treaties with Austria
Bavaria. Belgium, Hesse the North German Union, and
sweden and Norway. The only object Of putting thai
tiauke in The bill was as notification 20 natnrallzed
uzsns that when they did return their former homes
they rendered themselves amenabe the laws OF their
native cOGutIy ana that the United States
tOuid protect them. This clause, however might be
struck out the bill suptr1uous because the ques
eoL war 4l.eady governed by treaty supuatiOus.
MI. HCHCMAKER dem, n. ~, ia alIusiOn tO "a re-
MARI bv Nj n. X IIoar sai1 that the German Govern