Show Naria OUXJRAGK The Sepuilican papers are indignant Of process indignation over the refusal of the House of Representatives election elec-tion cGciamteeto award the seat to J B White from the Twelfth Indiana Distnc Test are denouncing the action ac-tion as an outrage and making as much fuss ever the matter as they would if the Republic wereiin danger Toe facts are these Captain White a Scotchman by birth cane to this country in 1654 since whwh he has resided here continuously exercising all the rights and privileges of a citizen In 16SS he was candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket against Lowry Democrat All through the campaign it was charged thai the bad never been naturalized and tiit if elected he would not be permittedto occupy the scat as only citizens anbe members of congress He receiced majority of the votes ana the certificate of election was given to him but the seat was contested by Lowry on theground that White was an alien TbeKDantain swore that he had been naturalized and offered of-fered to present a witness who would also testify to the fact but he could produce no naturalization papers nor any record of any court of this admis s on to citizenship The question presented pre-sented to the committee was a legal one as to the admissability of parol testimony to establish the citizenship of i of theeociimt an alien The majority o e i tee decided and very wisely so that orai testimony could not bs a cSt din I d-in such a care and hence White standing as an alien of course could net be admitted to the seat which could Ion I-on be legally occupied by citizen I Any other decision would have rendered ren-dered our naturalization laws worth lessior if citizenship could be proven by the oath of a man p good many foreigners would not go to the trouble and expense of going through a court for papers nor woujd they wait five t years before exercising the right pi I dtizenetiip Time and money would oth be saved by getting friend to swear that he had witnessed the naturalization proceedings The committee com-mittee did not award the feeat toLowry who lacked mass than 2000 votes of haying I hay-ing as many as White but decided that the seat was vaomt anda net election r v 1 mast be held Just where the hardship the injustice injus-tice the outrage or the semblance i sem-blance of wrong in this proceeding pro-ceeding comes in it is impossible j im-possible to soe If American a citizenship is so lightly regarded by a I man that he does t1otc re to preserve evidence of its possession and will not o even charge his memory with the court which conferred it on him he is unworthy un-worthy the boon and has no right to complain if Americans put a higher t value on citizenship than he has done |