Mr. HENDRICKS. I believe the question is upon the amendment proposed by the ComJudiciary to section 14, on page 17. I desired very much to take the view of that amendment exPressed by the Senfrom Wisconsin; but I was not and am not able now to do so. I think the view taken by the Senfrom Illinois is the one which we are compelled to take, that to make the law uniform the amount of property which shall be left to the discharged i.rfiust be the same in all the States. If we should allow him to retain $1,000 in one State and $5,000 in another certainly that would not be a uniform system. And if we adopt as part of this act the laws of the various States it will be making the system as diverse as the laws of the States themselves. But I wish to suggest to the Senfrom Wisconsin that I think the evils which he apprehends do not arise. The object of this bill is to discharge a man altogether from his indebtedness that he may start out in life afresh. When he gets that discharge from all obligations under this bill he goes out of court with the property which this bill allows him to retain. object and effect of the State laws exempting property from final process are not the same. A State law exempting property from execution is not a discharge from the indebtedness; it simply provides that when an execution may be issue ainst a H. the officer in the execution of that writ shall leave to the party a specified amount of property. It is not an insolvent's discharge; it is the property which he holds, notwithstanding, his to execution. The property which he holds under this bill he i.as a discharged debtor from his debts entirely. The laws of the States will remain, notwithstanding the passage of this bill, to have precisely the same effect that they do now. Until a man is discharged the laws of the State will protect him in the property exempted under them; but when he comes to be discharged the amount that he shall hold mtist be the same in all the States. The passage of this bill, in my view of the subject, will not impair the efficiency of the State laws exempting property from execution; and I do not anticipate the evils which the Senfrom Wisconsin fears.