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.

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,

                                   JohnH.
    Salem, OREG., April 10th, 1897.

DEAR JOHN: 

The Cretan matter seems nearer solution now, and it is to be hoped that all the trouble may result in better conditions for the people of the island.

I certainly do hope the Cubans will gain their freedom, for I think their cause is a just one.

Editor.

Dear editor: 

Mrs. B——­ takes your paper and she reads it to me every time it comes.  I hope you will have more about Cuba this week coming than you did last week.  I hope that Spain won’t get her $40,000,000.  I also hope that next time when the Greeks retreat from some place they will do it better than at Larissa.  I wish that there were some more about the big Python.  It is nice that Mr. Havemeyer has got a Little Venice on Long Island.  At the Tennessee Centennial it must be fine fun to go up in those cars!  I hope that Mr. Mayer will get out of Germany before he will go into the army.  Do you think that America can get him out?  I hope so.  I wish that your paper would come two or three times a week instead of only once.  I hope to get one or two subscribers next winter, for I am going to school, and I will ask the boys there.  Please put this letter in your newspaper.  I hope Mr. McKinley will send some American men to Cuba, and I do hope that Spain will have lots of Carlist troubles and South Africans too.  I hope that you will get lots of subscribers.

Wishing you very good luck to your paper, I am ever