The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-17
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
Chief Justice Noah Davis Throws
Light on IL Very Dark
Subject,
And Suggests Simple and Effective
Remedy for the Greatest Social
Evil Of the Age
The Abuses TO Which Our Present State
Laws are Subject-The Nine
tenth Century Club.


NEW YORK, April lG.--Mr. Courtlandt
Palmer's parlorS We're crowded last even
ing by members of the Nineteenth Cen
fury Club and its guests assembled to lis
ten to an address by Chief Justice NOAH
Davis upon the subject of "Narriage anc
Divorce Judge Davis said thattwoult
be better If there was no possibility 0.
divorce, rather than the present loose syS'
tenn. After abiding to the ease with
which the marriage tie could be legally
severed, he continued; "But If this cal
be done by willing parties what can not be
done by fraudulent ones? The frauds ar'
mostly perpetrated on wives. The law
of procedure in action for divorce ought
to be changed; first, SO that no judgment
could be entered until it appeared clearly
that the suit had been actually pending
at least six months after service OF III,
process. This not only prevents fraud
but gives the parties breathing spell
for possible reconciliation, and toprcycnI
immediate remarrage. Second, in al
cases the defendant should have the
right to insist that the alleged paramom
be brought in and made a party to tht
action, so that an unjust accusation could
be met and contuted by both OF the ac'
cuscd, who are interested in maintaining
innocence Third, and above all, mas.
much as society is deeply inter >lcd in all
such actions, the State should be made
party 50 that it may be able
TO PREVENT THE WRONGS
inflicted on the public and upon innocent
persons, and no judgment should be al
lowed until it appears that some lawful
representative has been served with "a
process and had an opportunity to appear
and resist the divorce. The greatest evil
in this country grows out Of the different
laws Of the several States. Let me illus.
tTate;
"a man is married in New York, where
| he has resided for years, aud has family
and i, the owner OF real and other estate.
| He desires a divorce, and goes to Indiana,
where that thing is cheap aud easy. Upon
Co'nP'!'n VIZ Nv ,
no aC'u'' no''-' W -, ".,' az -
"IItet Va 49, "''' ,,it ,,I.
brings him other children lie again a.
| qures new estates, but, firing of his Sec
| ond wife, he deserts her and goes 10 Cali
| fornia, where, in a brief space, b. j
| again divorced and marricS again, start
ms NJ ~ -. ,.-''r. b..
aiiH PEI soli''i ,'J -,
iO NJ 49, 49,, r.
~ W" IN '',lii ifn, ,lrt,
'i',I. -',a9 -, e. f,,rfa NH.
co.,, bdr ,roa anI tori,iI, Gi, r,'orrTi,,,
| AGAIN during her life tina He then sIirs
into Connecticut, takes = residence and
aconiros raoI nronart, ,bcrr and
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VIZ an
from MS OaiIorHIa oohuH. he returns
Alher, taxes soIhe ne" aHhIIy, CROSSES
the New Jersey Lane ana III an hour -
PACK IN Ne" lorK enjoying 80 much OF
MS estate as the courts nave not au-
judged 10 MS hrst WE, ana gives new
childreh 10 the "orIG' AT !chgIh Ms
master taxes hlin' ne uioH ihIc>'d't'
NOW What Is lhe legal status ana coH"l-
ton oil the various clIllehS ne mas gwen
to our common country Inc hr't
wlte's children are legitimate ana he!rS 10
his estate, the Indiana vines chhafeh are
Legitimate there and in Ne" YORK, t!Iit
marriage having taken place a1tcr the iiF't
wife had obtained her divorce, but ne
| gitimate in Indiana ana elsewhere, WINE