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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 89, 15 December 1913, Page 8

Mr Andrew Carnegie is the subject of a rather heated controversy at the present time. The famous million-, aire is a voter in Britain and also in thie United States. His name appears upon the register of electors for the "24th ward of the 29th Assembly District of Manhattan, New York," and upon the parish roll of Dornock, Scotland. He admits that he voted for Mr Taft in the Presidential election last year, and that he exercised tin* franchise in the British "general election of 1910. Yet he cannot be i citizen of two countries. A question was put to tlie Home Secretary in the House of Commons recently with a view of discovering if millionaires had any special privileges in tin 1 direction of extended citizenship, and Mr M'Kenna replied that Mr Carnegie was born in Britain, and presumably remained a British subject. New York electoral officers maintain that Mr Carnegie became an American citizen without naturalisation when he accompanied his parents to the United States half a century ago. "lie controversy is still proceeding, and the Scotch-American millionaire remains a voter in two lands.