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Show SECRETARY NAGLE j TO DEFEND STAND j Washington. Aug 12 Several vigorous vig-orous protests hae be mi Tecelved by Secretary Nagle of the department depart-ment of commerce and labor against his iecpnt interpretation of the naturalization nat-uralization and immigration laws to the effect that the naturalization of an alien confers American citizenship citizen-ship upon his minor children, whether wheth-er in the United Stales or abroad. The protcstants contend that the decision lowers the bars to all the barred elapses of Immigrants as the naturalization of a father of a family now permits him to bring into the L'r.ited States as American citizens, immune from the tests of immigration immigra-tion laws his minor children, whether wheth-er they are Idiots, imbeciles or other undesirables. Tho secretary is preparing an opinion to justify his position both from a legal and a humanitarian iewpolnt |