Omaha daily bee., 1891-03-14

. live there now i'
General Cowm-" pwhatl amspcalt.
Ing about those wholvo there now, | am
speaking about the mcn who lived In Ne.
I braska when il was admitted into the union.
| J am merely spcaSng about the people Of
/ Nauaia 10y comparison, This dscu Ssou uro-
coCtS on the theory advanced aud urged
| against the ctilcuS hin that tn rc was no CiN.
/ 2euShip intended on tho admission Of tue
| state In the union, except that prov idcd with
/ France byucay of lSO3 That treaty is
| above all other laws except the cons tuition
| Here the speaker read the treaty.
Congress by the enabling act,' said the
| speaker, "callCdupou the actual nhaDit ants,
| the men out upon the from tier, TO form
! government for themselves They promised
! thcmif they would do so RcCCptably to con.
! grCsS they hould toe admitted INTO the union
| in conformity with The rights OF the original
! states in all respects Whatsoever
''lhc rirht of citi2cnsh hpuudcr the coust-
! tuition of the United States audthc cons titu-
! ton and laws OF the several original states
was right net conferred 10y the original
| colonies upon the organi laiou Of the several
| states, nOr was 1t right conferred by the
| con sututiOn of the United States Nor any
| laws acted hereunder, but the fact Is that
citizenship in the orr igiual colonies upon
| organization into states, was one of the in
| allCnablc rights Of man as IA mem ber of the
society organ izing "a evil com munty, a state,
| and every state was an organization of the
| inhabitants thereof And the nation was an
organization of the inhabitants thereof, as
! wei as Of the constituted states. And
| upon the formation of the general
| govern mont every state that was ad-
| mlttcd intO the union carried with it the
| right Of citizenship to every bona tido In hab-
tautOf the scvcrai original states not by yir-
| turoOf any law but by virtue of the mali ona-
| bic right Of man in his association with OF hers
| To form agov eminent There fore every bona
tde mhaDtautof of the original states on the
admission of such states into the union be-
| came faCtO of tho | FnipI
| States.''
Here General Gown cited large nu mber
| Of authorities from the supreme court of the
| Unied States sustaining his doctrine. He
continued:
"Eyerynew state that has been admitted
intothc union has been admitted into all the
rights privileges and immunities awarded to
the rignal states. And | claim for Ne
braSka. as constituent mem Der of the great
union, and for every one of its bona tide in
| ha bltants, the same rights granted by the en-
abling act of congress that beonge to the
Inhabitants OF Massachusetts New York.
South Carolina and every other original
state, making every one of our bona iidc in
habItants citizens upon admission to the
union. To deny us this rights TO deny us
that grand right of equality with the other
states. Who dares say in Nebraska who
uarcs pronounce Judgment in Nebraska,
that the pioneers in this country, who opened
this great west to civilizations whomado of
can harvest field; that when these pioneers
were invited by congress to organize n state
govern ment, with n guarantee of all the rights
TO It's habitantS that was con fcmed upon
the orr lnal StltcS-whO dare say that these
pioneers did not. when admitted into the
union come In with all the rights given to
South Carolina and the other original states,
among which righ IS were the most important I
| of all, the ri ghts of citizenshipn y
'Whcn the Inhabitants Of that great pOr-
tiOn of the territory of the United States
Organized Under what was known as the
| ordnance of Ohio were authorized By an Gu
abling act of congress 70 form Il state gov
ernment witt view to beng al mltted int O
the union as a state with all the ri ghts of the
| original states, n state government was or
ganized, and on that organ i2aton the great
state of Ohio became one of the members of
the national union with the same rights as
those accorded to the original states. The
enabling act of ohio an d the act of admission
as astateis the same as that of Louis lana,
and the same as that provided for the organ
izatiOn of the state of Nebraska Every
bona hde in habitant of the territorial domain
of the state of Ohio was held to bo citizen
of the state OF Ohio and the United States
by virtue of its ad mission as such state and
every alien became by the enabling and ad =
mission acts citizen of the state and of the
union without further naturalRation.n
Here General Gown referred furthur to
the Louisiana purchase from France and the
treaty known as 'the Paris treaty. en- tered
into by Napoleon as Hrst consul and the
United States executed and concluded at
Paris in lSO3 stating upon what terms tn e
great Louisiana grant, which Included the
territory of the state of Nebraska, was Ceded
to the United States He cOnen dCd that by
thethird section of the Paris treaty all the
inhabitants of the ceded territory we're
in due time to be admitted into the union,
according to the princ pies and constitution
of the government OF the United States,
with all the rights and privileges Of its citi-
Zens.
The speaker proceeded
81 now desire to call the attention OF tn @
court to case, the decision of which is the
Acknowledged law Of the land and cOnclusive e
in favorOf the absolute Citizenshi p of James
r.. Boyd sin CO the admission of the state of
y ebraSka in to the union.
AFTER the war with England in 1912 law
was enacted in the territory of Oriean
being portion of the Louisiana grant pro-
vidlng that all foreigners should become
naturalRed within certain time under the
laws OF congress, providing unif rule of
naturalization, andiOn failure to do so they
should be considered alien enemies and liable
to arrest and punishment After the admis-
sion of the territory of Orleans intothe union
IN lSl2 as the state of Louisiana
a. large H., numb p1i.ir, OF persons claim
were arrested as aliens who had failed to be-
come naturali2ed. Several of them were
discharged by the supreme court OF the state
oil LOUISIANA on the ground that they were
not aliens, though they had never been nat
uralizcd under the naturalization laws of
congress, 80 great was the excitement con-
cerning the matter that several cases were
transferred TO the federal court to Obta in the
opinion of that tribunal on the Ques ion of
citizenship. The United States Courtheld
that as these persons, though never natural
lied under the Rtu razatiOn laws of con-
& rcSs, We're bona tide inha bitantS Of the ter
ritOry OF Orleans at the time the territory
was admitted into the union as the state of
Louisiana upon terms of equality with the
orignal states, which was theeXac Ian guage
of the admi SsiOn aCtof the state of Nebraska,
they became, the court declared, by that act
of admission ipso facto citizens of the United
States and of the state of Louisiana
Many other cases were here cited phOld-
ing the same doctrine.
General Gown here asserted that his
proposition was incontrOvermDle that when
tho state of Nebraska was admitted into the
union everyone of its bona fde Inhabitants
became ipsO factO citizens of the United
States upon the same terms and equality as
the citizens OF tho original thirteen states.
lie asserted ITO deny us that right would
not only be an outrage, but acrime upon the
state -
ut would be depriving ourselves coutin-
tous by con- gress that we should come in to
states, whose in b abitants came in with full
ci2ens ship. These rights. privileges and
immunltieS We're not gran ted to the noun
talns, priaries and rivers OF Nebraska, but
tothe men. women aud children, bona fidc
iuhn hi thereof WaS hnc. man ,.,op,.,,,