The bill under consideration provides that the exemption allowed to bankrupts in any State shall be that allowed under the law of the particular State. So that this bill. if it should become a law. might compel a debtor in Pennsylvania to give up all his property except possibly his household property and some necessary articles for himself and family. while debtors in other States would be left with quite a larger exemption. In a country like ours. where there are fortyfour or more States making laws all different. and where the laws of our Western States are so framed in the matter of exemptions as to encourage immigration from the Eastern States. I do not see how it is possible to adapt a bankrupt law to the varying conditions of the country. Another objection.
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