In reply to your inquiries.
1. Article 14 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States says:
"All persons born ... in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside."
2. For the answer to this question we applied to the highest possible authority, namely, to the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. He has very kindly favored us with the appended reply:
Editor.
Speaker's Room, House of Representatives.
Washington, D.C., May 22d, 1897.
Your letter of inquiry has been received. A United States Senator may have one vote only at one time on
any question. On questions like the ratification of a treaty, where two-thirds are required for affirmative action, one vote in the negative counts for as much as two in the affirmative. Very truly,
T.B. Reed.
Dear Editor:
My teacher subscribed for your paper for our school. I like it very much, as we learn a great deal about the world and what is going on in it. I wish the powers would keep their hands off the Cretan trouble, as they have had a time of it under the Turkish rule. I hope the Cubans will gain their freedom, don't you? Your respectful reader,