Mr. JOHNSON. I know it does not. Then it is proposed to leave the compulsory branch of the law in force. What will be the effect of that? Whether a rebel debtor, so to term him, is to be discharged or not is to depend upon a loyal creditor. If a loyal creditor proceeds against him it is not proposed to qualify the discharge which the is to obtain under the compulsory process so as to limit it only to those who may be able to take the oath proposed by the honorable Senfrom massachusetts to be Prescribed. Then the result of this bill is that the debtor's discharge is to depend upon the fact of whether the loyal cred itor applies himself for the benefit of the law. He will have to apply. If he does not apply for the benefit of the law as against his debtor in all human probability he will never get a dollar of his debt. Leave the estate in the hands of the bankrupt debtor and he may dispose of it just as he thinks proper. Whatever i. has left he may live upon until he exhausts every dollar of his property; he may sell it, convert it into money, leave the State and leave the country, and then what is to become of the loyal creditor?. The bill is intended and will operate as much if not more for the loyal creditor than it will for the disloyal debtor. Now, Mr. President, I should just as soon have thought of applying such a provision as this to this billas of proposing an amendment, which at one time I thought perhaps my friendfrom Massachusetts would propose, that the law was to apply to all citizens of the U.S. without distinction of color, [laughter,) so as to revive the question whether there are such distinctions or should be such distinctions. We want a bankrupt law for the benefit of all, not for the benefit of the South, but we want it to operate upon citizens of the South who are debtors, not only for their benefit, but for. the benefit of their creditors who are found in the loyal States, and, among other States, in the State of Michigan. Does the honorable member propose to deny to the creditor who lives in Michigan the right to proceed as against his disloyal debtor in the State of Louisiana? I understand him to say so.