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Show CAN GET NATURALIZED. Courts Decide Filipinos May Become Citizens of United States. A Washington, D. C, dispatch says: JiiBtlco Clabaugh of tho district bu. promo court decided that Antonio M. Oposlo do Ycaso, tho young Filipino who Bomo mouths ngo Instituted man-damns man-damns proceedings to compel Clerk i"tjm II. Young of tho supremo court to roeeYfli 'l's citizenship declaration, Is still nn'tftK and ls entitled to be como a cltlzonx(Axt United Stntos. His declaration, tlitS1'0. wn9 or-dered or-dered to bo received, iUL nn appeal was taken to tho district tYllr.t of nn peals. Tho clerk's rofusalV" nccept tho declaration was on thoNrou,ul that 11 Filipino Is not nn nllonRi. consequently, cannot renounce tho allegiance ho socks to relinquish. Tho Filipino alleged that ho was born of Spanish parents In Manila , In 1880, and llvod at Manila until sovoral years ago. Tho court hold that In tho chnngo of sovereignty of a country, or part thereof, tho Inhabitants hud tho ltfiht to chooso tholr nllcglancc. i-'r ' plnlntirf had not declared his len-tlon len-tlon to rotnln Spanish nllegla'o within with-in a year, ns required by Vho Paris treaty, but tho court lie!' that ns ho was n minor at that Jrino ho hnd a right to elect his nationality upon at-talnmcnt at-talnmcnt of Ills mnjorlty, OpoBln had elected to retain his Spanish citizenship, citizen-ship, nnd, thoroforo, was still an nllon, nnd had a right to npply for cltlzon. hhlp hero. Tho court did not, how. ovor, discuss tho general question of nationality or citizenship of tho pcoplo pco-plo In the Philippines. |