Mr. HIGBY. I am very glad to have been interrupted by my friendfrom Vermont, [Mr. Montana] is statement makes it more favor able to my own State, for the very reason that there is no gubernatorial or presidential electionin California but what the State is scoured, every nook and corner, every hillside and gulch searched to find a voter and get him to the polls and I venture the assertion that there are not 2000 voters in the State who are not brought to the polls at every gubernatorial or presidential election and I will state one other thing in this connection, and then I have done. It is this: it. must be borne in mind that the great amount of foreign population that comes to this country, instead og stopping and settling in the older States, goes to the Territories and new States and you will find, ifa census should be so taken as to discriminate between the native born and the foreign born of your population, afar greater proportion is to be found in the western States than in the older or eastern States and of that population, there is always a large proportion still foreigners who have not yet taken advantage of our naturalization laws to quality them to be electors and another thing: I believe it is still held in some of the States, and constitutions are so framed, that those who are not citizens, either native born or naturalized foreign born, are allowed to vote. I have only to say in this connection, that while by the constitution of the U.S. Congress are to make provisions by which foreignborn persons may become citizens, a State attempts to confer a right and a privilege upon an individual the higiest that e can obtain under the laws of the U.S. by the process of naturalization; thus negativing as it. were that portion of the constitution which requires Congress to make provisions to enable t 0se foreign born to become citizens. Now, my hope, my wish is that this JtResolution shall go back to the committee. I do not wish it. disposed of here, to be voted down. I want, if it is possible, thatit shall be so framed that it shall receive the full constitutional majority required and be a proposition that shall Operate with full force in:11 those States that now have a great population excluded from the rights of citizenship.