Mr. Sherman to Mr. Storer.
Washington, September 18, 1897.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 24, of the 4th instant, in regard to the application of Elea Luboschey for a passport.
The records of the Department show that Elea Luboschey received from it a passport, dated January 6, 1894, and numbered 6410, on proof of his own naturalization before the superior court of Illinois at Chicago on November 14, 1893. It not infrequently happens that the son of a naturalized citizen of the United States secures naturalization in his [Page 28] own right because of the difficulty of proving his father’s naturalization. I inclose a copy of the application of Mr. Luboschey on which the Department issued him a passport, in order that you may examine carefully the applicant before your legation. If his identity with the person who received the passport from the Department is satisfactory to you, a new passport may be issued to him if he be found entitled to it in other respects.
With reference to the stamped signature on his old passport, I have to inform you that on all passports issued by Mr. Gresham the signature was stamped. This was also the case with passports issued during the terms of Secretaries Seward, Evarts, Blaine, Foster, and Olney, and is the custom at the present time. On passports issued by Secretaries Fish and Bayard the signature was in writing.
Respectfully, yours,