OCR Text |
Show The Bankruptcy Bill. New Yovk Times. The work of impressing the merits of the Torrey bankruptcy bill upon the new congress con-gress as already hegau. and the prospect of success at the present session is regarded by-Its by-Its friends as promising. The general sys tciu of the. bill nnqneatlonably gains strength with discussion, and it is now-accepted now-accepted by a greater nuuiher and variety of representative comuercial bodies, than have indorsed an) previous bill. Indeed, there is practically no orginied opposition to it. and what little disposition there was at one time toward partisan prejudice has vanished vanis-hed uuder the Candid and intelligent advoe. acy of the measure. The unfavorable feeling feel-ing in the South uo longer exisls, as is indicated in-dicated Icy t ne fact that .Indue George W. Stone, for many years chief Justice of tho Alabaua Supreme court, came to Washiii". ton expressly to urge the same. Judge Stone in a recent interview declared his opinion that the Torrey hill was the best plain of bankruptcy legislation yet proposed would he especially advantageous to the growing o,.,,.sts ,,f the South. |