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for citizenship that year: Superior Court Judge John H. McCunn, and Supreme Court Justice George G. Barnard. Both were creatures of Tweed. The proceedings were handled in wholesale fashion. Discussing the frauds of that year, John I. Daven­port, United States Commissioner and Chief Super­visor of Elections for the Southern District of New York, has written this graphic account

"Let us examine the manner in which these two magistrates made American citizens, and see what propriety and dignity of conduct they brought to the work.

"A member of the New York Bar has testified, that being somewhat desirous of witnessing the plan pursued by aliens in procuring naturalization, he visited a room in the basement of the City Hall belonging to the suite assigned the sheriff of the county; that he there saw about four squads, of four men each, engaged in clerical work, the several squads being under the charge of one of their num­ber, who acted as a foreman. Each foreman, hav­ing before him a list of names and addresses, would keep the other three members of his squad employed in filling up blank applications for naturalization, in the names of persons whom he would call off to them from his list. As rapidly as a clerk would fill up an application he would sign the name of the applicant, and for a witness would sign the name of

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