[80] These efforts of the Bureau to augment its scope and authority are discussed in this volume, p. 180 et seq.
[81] See H. R. 9949, introduced by Mr. Johnson of Washington, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session.
[82] United States vs. Gerstein.
[83] Art. I, sec. 8, par. 4.
[84] See Report of the President’s Commission on Naturalization, 1905, Fifty-first Congress, First Session, House Document 46.
[85] The words “approximately” and “entitled” are appropriate here, because by no means all of the judges empowered to naturalize exercise the function, and the list is constantly changing by reason of death, retirement, readjustment of work in large courts, etc.
[86] See United States vs. Hill, 120 U. S., 169; Hill vs. United States, 40 Fed., 441; United States vs. McMillan, 165 U. S., 504; in re Halladjian, 174 Fed., 834.
[87] The text here quoted is from the law as it now stands; it differs very slightly in verbiage, but not in meaning, from the law as it read when quoted in the New York Immigration Commission’s report.
[88] Report of the Commissioner for fiscal year ending June 30, 1916.
[89] Report of the Commissioner for fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, p. 33.