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I had moved in the Senate, in 1882, a bill favored by the
merchants and manufacturers of Massachusetts, which was largely
the work of Judge John Lowell, of the United States Circuit
Court, one of the most accomplished lawyers of his day, as
an amendment to a bill which Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Davis and Mr.
Ingalls had reported as a Subcommittee to the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and which had been reported from that Committee
to the Senate.
The Lowell Bill was on my motion substituted for the report
of the Judiciary Committee, by a majority of three. This
bill was extensively discussed in June and December. But
I was unable to secure its passage. It passed the Senate,
but it did not get through the House.
I have had the Parliamentary charge of all Bankruptcy measures
in the Senate from that time. After the failure of the Lowell
Bill, the Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, and other
like associations throughout the country, took up the matter
very zealously by employing an able lawyer, the Hon. Jay
L. Torrey of Missouri, to present the matter in the two Houses
of Congress.
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