Anlage IX.

Aus amerikanischen Kongrefspapieren.

1. Die Statistik des Mr. Squiers über die Wirksamkeit der deutschen Bancroftverträge.

Inclosure in No. 3291. M. Squiers to Mr. Uhl.

Embassy of the United States,

Berlin, April 17, 1897.

Sir: In accordance with your verbal instructions, I beg to hand you a report on the working of the treaty of February 22, 1868, between the United States and the North German Confederation. Naturalization treaties were made with other German States at about the same time. All cases coming under any of the various treaties are included.

For your convenience I have drawn the report in a tabulated form showing: (1) Name; (2) age at emigration; (3) date of emigration; (4) date of naturalization; (5) date of return to Germany; (6) date of intervention; (7) ground for intervention; (8) result of intervention.

In further tables I have consolidated the data collected under each of the above heads.

You will find a total of 447 cases presented between the 23d of April, 1868, and the 7th of April, 1897, a period of nearly twenty-nine years. Of these, 48 were AlsaceLorraine and 88 Schleswig-Holstein cases. (Inclosures Nos. 1 and 2.)

The age at emigration is significant. Under the German law the names of all those who have passed their seventeenth year are placed on the military list, where they remain until the twenty-eighth year is passed. Of the 447 cases, 316 emigrated between the ages of 16 and 22. (Inclosure 3.)

1 Foreign Relations 1897 p. 210.

The length of residence in the United States before naturalization, and in many cases the almost immediate return thereafter to Germany, is also very significant. Two hundred and five cases out of 375 whose records are known were naturalized within six years after emigration, while 212 out of 381 returned to their native country within two years after naturalization. (Inclosure 4.)

Of the 447 cases presented, 325 were decided favourably. Many expulsion cases were decided unfavourably, and especially those expelled from Schleswig-Holstein. În cases 5, 6, 7, 15, and 319 I have been unable to find any reply to note of intervention. (Inclosures 5 and 6).

Many of the dates are missing. In cases of arrest or of compulsory service the certificate of naturalization was generally taken up by the authorities and, when the case was finally decided, returned direct. For this reason the details were not recorded.

I have, etc.

H. S. Squiers, Second Secretary 1.

1 In der folgenden Liste heifst es unter No. 22 in der Rubrik: ,,Date of naturalization" merkwürdigerweise June 31, obgleich es einen solchen Tag im Kalender nicht gibt.

1866

22 Kielgast, T.

23 Pieper, F.

16 Aug. 14, 1864 June 31, 1871 July 15, 1871 Oct. 23, 1871|

Fine.

Succesful.

24 Kuhn, E.

17

1852

May 27, 1872

1

May 13, 1872 Aug. 9, 1872

25 Friedmann, L.

17

1865

Sept. 1871 Dez. 1871 Aug. 22, 1872 Comp.service.

do.

26 Ludwig, O J. C.

20

1854

1860

1871

Sept. 9, 1872

Fine.

do.

27 Trautner, C.

18

1856 Sept. 1868

1872

do. Comp.service.

do.

Aug. 5, 1865 Aug., 1870 Nov.

1872 Nov. 29, 1872

Fine.

do.

29 Klein, B.

17

Mar. 12, 1868 Mar. 15, 1873

April 30, 1873

do.

do.

30 Holhausen

1

1854 Through his

1858

May 2, 1873 Comp.service.

do.

father

1 Had not returned to Germany up to date of intervention.

Jan.,
Mar.,

Jan. 2, 1874 Comp.service.
April 9, 1874
do.
April 27, 1868 Sept. 5, 1873 Oct., 1873 April 25, 1874 Fine.
July 1864 Sept. 19, 1870 Jan. 1872 April 28, 1874 Comp.service.
Mar. 27, 1871 1873
May 15, 1874
1863 Mar. -,
1868 April 29, 1874 June 2, 1874
1868 Nov. 6, 1873 Jan. 1874 June 8, 1874

do.

1874

the German army

navy.

Refused. A deserter from

Succesful.

or

do.

do.

do.

Arrest.

do.

Fine.

do.

49 Grossart, F. W.

gration emigration

zation

to Germany intervention

for
intervention

of
intervention

Aug. 1873 Aug., 1874 Sept. 30, 1874
1874 Dec. 25, 1874 Jan. 6, 1875
1869 Oct. 8, 1874

Successful.