Will you be kind enough to answer the following questions in an
early issue of your Magazine, and greatly oblige.

1. Is a Japanese born in this country a citizen?

2. When may a United States Senator have two votes upon one
question?

A SUBSCRIBER.

BURLINGTON, IA., May 4th, 1897.


DEAR FRIEND:

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.