The evening world., 1894-03-30
JUDGES TO
take ACTION.
Meeting Called to Discuss
the Naturalization
Frauds.
PRAISE THE EVENING WORLD.
Steps to Be Taken to Prevent the
Perjurers from Continuing
Their Work.
AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW.
Congress and the Legislature to Be
Urged to Pass Restric-
tive Measures.

Judges OF the State courts, irrespective
of party affiliations, " taken UP THE
Evening WORLDS exposures of the
naturalization frauds unearthed In this
city. Within the next few weeks 1t is
expected a meeting, the like of which
has not been witnessed in years. will
be held to discuss the question.
Every judge, whether he presides over
a court where naturalization papers are
issued or not. will be asked to attend that
meeting.
To Leonard A. Glegerich, Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, the credit for
this proposed meeting or conference IS
due. Judge Glegerich, after he read THE
Evening Worlds exposures, investigated
a little IN his own account and found that
every charge of fraud made was true. He
realized that the subject was one Of the
gravest kind and prompt measures were
necessary to check the evil and II pos
sible to arrest and punish the men who
traffic In citizenship.
Whether the Legislature or Congress
passes any law to check the evil" said
Judge Giegerich to an Evening World
reporter this morning. "the Judges must
meet and do something. Undoubtedly
the evil is growing daily. At present
there is sp2 means whatever Of stop
ping 1t. The laws are too loose. The
Judges can do much. They can decide
upon uniform rules governing the ad-
mission of aliens to American citizen
ship. They can check the frauds even
under the laws. providing they receive
the cooperation Of other departments,
which doubtless will be forthcoming
in view of the startling disclosures of
TIL Evening World
81 will begin to-day and confer with
such of my brother Judges as may be
here. Steps will at once be taken to
call the meeting, and l have no doubt
of the result. The public owes n deep
debt of gratitude to The Evening
World for the great task 1t undertook
and so successfully carried out"
The story of the steps taken by 1.-The
Evening World" to arrest Vincenzo De
Vito, padrone. liquor dealer. banker and
politician, after he had procured on per-
jured evidence a naturalization paper.
and then sold It for SIS, has already been
told. They were simply steps k to
demonstrate the evil That De Vito's
case was not an isolated one Is we'll un-
derstood. 1t is also true that the traffic
in naturalization papers is not confined
to the Italian colony. nor are the pa
drones the only ones who buy and sell
the papers.
The Evening WORLD has possession
OF considerable evidence pointing 10 the
guilt OF parties much higher in station
than VincenZo De Vito.
Judge Giegerich's decision to have a
meeting of all the. judges OF the State
was FASTENED by the fact that there Is
ed to remedy some of the ,evil5 com
planned of. There Is grave danger this
bill will not be passed unless it's import
ance Is brought home to GongTessmen IN
introduced in the Assembly. at Albany.
Until THE Evening World" began to
expose the frauds both bills were a.
Judges act with "The Evening World
they will be taken up and pushed. The
decision arrived at by the judges VIII
The bill at present before Congress
was introduced by Congressman Oates
and is the result of much careful STUDY
on the part of the Congressional Com
mittee appointed to Investigate the sub,
ject. Stripped OF all verbiage, the bill
proposes TO abolish the present system
OF an alien taking out trst papers. as
fraud has been committed, Instead,
under the proposed law the alien makes
application for full citizenship when
he has lived here at least 1--WE years,
Che application takes the form or a
petition, which he swears to. OF which
the following Is a copy:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
To the -. Court OF -
Your petitioner, a subject OF -. AYERS that he
is over the age Of twenty-ono years, and has been
OF America. for more than hve YEAR, next pre-
cedlng this date. that he was born In -. In
the year -. and has since resided at -. and
now resides at particularly describing tho place
OF his residenccI; that ne never has been con
victed before any court or other legal tribunal
volving moral turpituds, and that be Is not an
Anarchist or polyssmist, and that he
did not imm!grAte to the United States IL
violation OF any ni the laws thereof. that he ran
read the Constitution OF the United states, and
tia, he has resided within the United states con
date, and for the last twelve months thereof
withlr uhe state, District or Territory, In which
lie then rssldgsJ' that he makes this declaration
OF hts purpose and Intention TO become a citizen
of the unllcJ States o; America, and TO that end
hereby renounccE forever bis allegiance To any
particularly 10 -, sad hereby declares bis
allegiance 10 tho Unitcd states Of America and the
j Constitution thereof. and nrAyf 10 be declared and
,dIudged a citizen OF the United States OF Amor,
Ice,
Thu 49, day OF -.
Petitioner nameD
Papers cannot be given to the applicant
within thirty days after the Ming OF the
petition. When tho petition Is filed notice
ltOnanued on lEEd EUge.l