We have power to regulate commerce with foreign fiations. among the States. and the Indian tribes. but every statute that has attempted to exercise this power has been stricken from the statute books unless it was kept within the constitutional limitations. I appeal to every lawyer who has read Gibbon vs. Ogden (9 Wheaton) to Wilson vs. McNamee (102 U. S. Reports). nearly one hundred years construction of the Constitution. and over 140 decisions of the United States Supreme Court. We can establish uniform rules of bankruptcy and naturalization. yet from the early reports of Wheaton to the later reports of Howard. covering more than half a century. our laws have failed when the court found Congress doing things beyond constitutional limitations. No. sir. I say. not only to the distinguished junior Senator from Indiana.
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