The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-16
MUCH COMMENT ON THE PAS
SAGE OF DECEASED WIFE'S
SISTER BILL.
ROME IS OPPOSED 70 THE BILL.
But 1t Will Doubtless Become Law.
Grand Reception Accorded the An
cient Artillery Company-Naval
AIaneuvers on a Large Scale.

| I.OdOn, July 1l.-(CpoyrlShted, lS0O, by
the Associated Press "A majority of the
newspapers express themselves as salts
fed with the adoption of the deceased
wife sister bill after forty year of agita-
ton. The important question now is,
will the government give the bill chance
of passing the house of commons as well
as the house of lords? 1t is believed that
at least two-thirds of the members of
| the lower house are in favor of the meas
ure, while outside it can be safely said
that the mass of the people, except Il sec
ton of the church party, is also in favor
of the bill.
Baron Hirschell, formerly lord chancel-
| lor. and IA Liberal, in crisp speech last
evening demolished one of the leading ar
guments put forward by the bishop of
Ely, who appealed to the canonical law
as denouncing the marriage of a man with
his wife's sister.
| Baron Hrschell retorted that canOnical
law forbids the marriage of first cousins,
which the Church of England allows.
| Lord Dunraven made a telling point
| when he produced a whip sent to the
Catholic peers in which Cardinal Vaughan
declared that he had the authority of the
pope to call upon all Catholics to oppose
the bill. This has been seized upon by
the newspapers today as interference with
English politics. and is certain to intensity
the feeling in favor of the measure.
| The Daily News, referring to Cardinal
Vaughan's whip, says: The impudent at
tempt of an Italian priest to interfere in
| the decisions of the British parliament has
no parallel since Plus TX procured the de-
feat of Mr.. Gladstone's Irish university
bill in 1873.
The members of the house of lords who
I voted in favor of the bill last evening in
cluded the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
Connaught, the Duke of York, the Duke
of Fife, Lord Rosebery, Baron Hirschell,
the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Roths-
child, the Marquise of Lansdowne, the
Duke of St. Adams.
Their opponents included two archbish-
ops, nnenteen bishops, the Duke of
Argyle, the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Earl of Cranbrook and the Duke of Rich
mond.
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opposed to the deceased wife's sister bill,
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