TO ESTABLISH A BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR A UNIFORM RULE FOR THE NATURAL- STATES, AND ON THE DIFFERENT BILLS REFERRING TO THE SUBJECT OF WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. UNIFORM RULE FOR THE NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS. COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, January 23, 1906. The committee met at 10 o'clock, Hon. Benjamin F. Howell in the chair. Present, the chairman (Mr. Howell) and Messrs. Adams, Bennett, Ellerbe, Burnett, Wood, Bonynge, Moore, and Hayes. There were also present Messrs. Purdy, Hunt, and Campbell, comprising the Commission on Naturalization; Mr. Richard P. Morle, clerk of the United States district court for the eastern district of New York; Mr. Robert F. Randall, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and other gentlemen interested in the proposed legislation. STATEMENT OF MR. GAILLARD HUNT, ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON NATURALIZATION, STATE DEPARTMENT. Mr. HUNT (having first made a statement which was not reported). I will now take up the difference between our bill and the bill submitted by the majority. Mr. BONYNGE. Suppose we have that read first before you discuss it. Mr. HUNT. Section 16, page 13, is as follows (reading): That the children of persons who have been duly naturalized under the provisions of this law, who were under the age of 16 years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States at the time of their parents' naturalization, or upon coming to the United States, under the age of 16, after their parents' naturalization and dwelling therein, be considered as citizens thereof. Mr. WOOD. You provide that the law shall remain as it now stands in regard to minor foreign-born children becoming citizens on the naturalization of their parents? Mr. HUNT. That is it. Mr. WOOD. You claim it would be unwise to make any restriction and only admit to citizenship on the naturalization of their parents children under 16; you claim that all minor foreign-born children under the age of 21 should, by the naturalization of their parents, become citizens? Mr. HUNT. Yes, if dwelling in the United States. That is an extremely important section, because it touches the question of human rights citizenship rights. The law of every country in the world except the United States is that the citizenship follows the |