Speaker. in the short time I shall ask the attention of the House I do not propose to discuss the details of the pending bill. which were so ably set forth yesterday by the chairman of the committee and also so fully presented in the very elaborate report from the tommaittee. I propose rather to discuss the general phases of bankruptcy legislation and the general reasons for it. The Constitution gives no more explicit power than that which it confers upon Congress to pass uniform naturalization laws and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy. This power is stated so explicitly that its exercise is almost enjoined upon us as a duty. It is united with the great right of fixing the citizenship of this Republic. and it seems to me that it is to be regarded not merely as giving us the power to pass such a law. but as almost ordering us to pass it.
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