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On the same side as my colleague . Siipplementing what my colleague has said. the 15.600 cubic feet now being taken are being taken legally. because they are being taken by authority of a statute of the State of New York. and under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. where Congress has the powerassuming that it has the power in this caseand does not exercise it. any State can exercise the same power until it is superseded by congressional action. That was held in the matter of naturalization. as to which Congress had the power t6 pass a unif6rm naturalization law. but refrained from exercising it until 1906. In the meantime-