Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-11
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A. Unoer Instructions common ced with said
| record OF date January Is, 1852, page &c., and
gust 20, 1870, page ls5 of said boek, curing
which time there was between 10 and lS(
| names contained In said exhibit, each OF which
| sppears in said record.
p. Q. There are, then, one of those but what
appear Of record in said Record CT Final Oaths:
A. The names are copied from tina boob
called Record If Final Oaths, No. ], Allen
county.
%. .. And that is a record book composed OF
entries consisting of blank forms filed up In
such manner as to adapt them to the particular
case, and similar to those get forth in Exhibit
| V, connected with the deposition of your for
mer deputy, Mr.. Jacob j. Kern, is Ii not?
A. Can't say that It is record. only that 1t Is
book containing blank forms to be filed up
80 as TO acapt them to any particular case q.
set for in Exhibit V.
Turning to Exhibit V, they copy from
that book the exact requirements Of the
law decreeing full naturalization, ard the
clerk certifies that Ills an exact copy from
the book.
Mr.. Morgar-Are the judgments of the
court ordering naturalization in that
book?
Mr.. Moore-I see the point the gentle
man is after, and will answer his ques-
men Of the House of Representatives, !
is, who Is he and what is bis manner
there is not man, say, who was nat
urslized in Allen county but that his name
appears In the record and his final nat
ural zstion Is declared, not in the order
book, but il book Of final osths. There
is not case except the one have told
yousabout, and that case is significant.
Now, how are these books made? [
take IL that slmost every gentleman in
this House has been in some state cou t
when people were being naturalized. I
happen to live ia 8 distr ct composed
largely of foreign-born citizens. The
county live in, an agricultural county,
has some 1000 voters. Having myself
presided on the bench for ten years, it is
possible that have personally witnessed
the issue of as large number Of natural
izstion papers IS any one here, possibly
q larger number than any other member
Of this House.
The matter Is done there exactly as 1t
is done in Indiana. These records are
not psrt of the regular records of the
court. take 1t that In Mississippi-and
am some what Of 8 Mississippian myself
that there are certain orders OF q court
SO formal in their character, being al
ways in exactly the same Words-for in
stance, fo1feitures of bonds and proceed
ings in cases Of naturalizstion-thati it Is
more economical to have tie books cor
tanning such matters bound as such, being
made sometimes by order of the court &
part Of the minutes, and sometimes not;
so that in this department of business
those minutes pertaining to forfeitures
and 20 naturalization are made in mo-
ment by filling up the blanks in those
books.
Now, this cunning device has been dis
covered; but in it is another fact over
Whelming when the records Of Allen
county are attacked for proper and in
telligent purpose, to destroy their verify:
and in proportion as their verify is de-
stroyed so becomes important and Of
probable truth the statement of Mr..
White. But when Mr.. White is the only
man in the county of Allen who says, "I
certificate, but it is lost" and
yet his name is not recorded among the
names CT those made citizens by that
court, then his case is peculiar If Mr..
White had said, 81 was naturslized,
but they gave me no psper,"
his case would have been stronger
Why, sir, these blanks are filled
up, and one OF them is given to the citi-
zen while the other is retained. Mr.
Whites position is that the officer of the
court gave him one of the certificates and
retained in the office the other blank
Where is that blank? Let it be produced,
MIR. White gives as tie date of his
the 9th or 28th day Of
February, 1865. If on that date there
was an odd blsIk in that book 1t might
correspond with the certificate alleged to
have been received by Mr.. White; but il
there is no blank in that book 1t does not
correspond with the assumption that one
blank WAS filed up and another not filed
up. Who will explain thit2
Turning to that dste you find that on
The 9th day Of February MIR. Wellmsn
Was neturallzed; and that is all right.
On the 2Ssh of February Caspar Sheep
was nsturslized; and there is his testi-
nony; he Is al right in the record. But
Mr.. White is out of the record. There is
nothing, except what he says, 20 show
that he was ever in the court or that his
name wss ever upon the record.
Mark you, silence is sometimes an
answer; and the silence OF
) record answers any man who says there
Is record when there is no record, with
this Limitation snd exception, that if, on
examining the records, you find them so
defective that they cannot import their
own verify, then human testimony can
begin. A record that does not exist is as
much verified by its non-existence as q
record that does exist to verify what the
record says. That is law.
Now, gentlemen, 1 desire TO look
briefly (ior must be brieil at what 1
concede TO be the law. l state to you
that in the provision of the constitution
In reference to naturalization are the
strangest words to be found in any ordi-
nance or law. The provision is that
Congress shall hGye power
To establish
That is the first time such language
Was used
To establish sn uniform rule of nat
The only time that the word ''rule" is
expressed and emphasized in that in
strument. In the same cIsuse there fol-
lows this language:
And uniform laws on the subject OF
throughout the United
States.
Why in all other ordinances but this
are claws" spoken of; and why did the
trainers of the constitution in writing
thtS ordfnancp uea the MIRAGE Ggasrahlysh