The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-23
THE BELMONT MARRIAGE.
FURTHER TALK OYER THE ALLEGED
| DECEPTION OF DR. BARROWS.

New Haven Preachers Say That DIR. Bar
rows Was Deceived, but Lawyer Hub
bard, Who First Engaged the Preacher,
Says No-Returned w eddinR Fec was $500
NEW HAVEN. Conn. June 22.-Ministers in
this city who are members Of the General As.
sociation Of Congregational Ministers OF Con
nccticut. the body that yesterday discussed
the .BeInont.Soane marriage. today further
commented on the marriage. The Key DR..
Ray Palmer OF the Yale Corporation. who Is a
member OF the association and who was pres
ent Yesterday at the In setting. said:
The action taken concerning divorce is
really a crystalllzation OF the feelings OF the
Congregational ministers on the matter. We
are ConEregaticnnlists. and no rule or law OF
any Church can compel us to do anything: 80
the resolutions as passed are not compulsory.
/ believe. however. that the clergymen OF the
Church in the State will fall in line on the mat
ter aud act up to the expression OF opinion
made Yesterday"
The Rev. Dr.. Newman Smyth OF Centre
Church. one Of the foremost Congregational
pastors in Connecticut. said:
The action taken by the General Associa-
ton of Congregational Clergymen is simrly a
timely declaration Of the position regarding
divorce which has been generally held by the
Congregational clergy. While 1t was unduubt-
edy occasioned by q recent notorious in stance
Of tho violation Of the moral law of marriage
| in this State. II should not be construed as
| censurs of the clergyman who oniciated in
| that PROCLAMATION OF tho marriage service. as he
| stated that he had been falsely informed as to
| the. facts.
Il do not think that any Congregational
| clergyman in Connecticut would have per-
| formed the service II he had been truly in
| formed as to the facts. l do not know how
ala al a n nprInrm tho
| service in the recent notorious Instance be-
| lore it became necessary to make false rep
! resentation OF the facts In order to md clsr-
gyman to marry them.'
The Rev. DR.. W. ". Leete Of Dwight Place
| Church said:
THE recent Greenwich affair has brought
| the matter up before us. particularly as Mr..
| Barrows sad.that,he had been IMPOSED upon
| by the couple in that affair and explained the
| situation to tho ministers present No ono de-
| sres to make his position moro unpleasant
| than it was
.GnEENw1cH. Conn., June 22.-FTederirk a:
| Hubbard the lawyer through whom Perry
marriage marriage by BY the Rev. DR.. Walter VI Barrows
| pastor OF the Second CONGREGATIONAL Church.
| objects to the impression which is abroad that
he .practiced dece option on his own pastor IN
marriage Ceremony. fis made the following
S'"! fhs report that or Mr. Belmont or Mrs
| Sloane or any one else connected with the ar
Belmont ana Mrs, sloane deceived Or. Bar
| rows is untrue. | called DR.. Earr9ws out
from committee meeting on the THURSDAY r.
would give him $3.50 to perform wedding
ceremony on SATURDAY morning; The only
| to marry them, and told him that knew of
no objections. | also said TO him that the
the n1tDe pa mT and that the only lad thing
conuecte l:with the affair would be the notori-
ETY.. which would extend from Dan to Beer
The next morning went out Of tow, and
| DIR. Barrows called on my wife lie told her
was all news 10 her. and said he had passed
sleepless night thinking over the affair and
| ing the ceremony. That Friday afternoon.
after the divorce had been granted Mr. s4iIi.
yam from De Lance HiroIus 9ire IN n, N NV
time to me and called on Or. Barrows. He
told DIR: Bnrrows tina; he understood ARRANGE
the coupie on saturday morning: Mr.. ,suilI-
van says. and / have no reason to doubt his
| but mad since mad" up his mind not 70 do %
Therefore all arrangement, which had made
WIN it't sullivan saws he asked MI Barrows to
hs;e% d hroI Lin that Eo fec es 81
ten $50 bills. incIosed in an envelope, This. I
TO Mr. Belmont. Mr.. sullivan tells me tina. the
| only objection to perform the ceremony that
was made was the notorletyv connected with it.
This matter has made things very unpleas.
ant for me. Friends from all over the country
vF TR. T. al d why not the
Mr.. Hubbard was recently called upon by
tho Ghurchiepm n.tee e explain his part in IN the
ton on all hands to let the:matter drop. but
the recent action Of tho Congregational minis,
to Mr.. and'Mrs Belmont for alleged deception.
has caused Mr.. Hubbard to make his state
| Well known lawyers in the State are some
| what surprised at the course OF the Congrega-
tiopal ministers in New Haven IN passing Feso
and say that under the laws Of the state DR..
Barrow was entirely justified in n, pert9Irm,
When the he cSnererationai Ghu5fh dominated
history. only Justices OF the Peace were per-
9aItsa to the "efG several rsnta
service. and, IN ,i7o2 the power to a
minister was limited to II the h town he
ii7s3 it was extended through the, county
and in ls47 nuth"rty c WAS given y; to to
marriage. In 1899 the law was hroaiened %
as to permit minister's from other States to
perform marriage IN this state,
Every minister j. forbihden NJ 70 marry without
Clerk in thu town whore the marriage il
to be solsmniZed, and the supreme Court
fcers for this purpose. In the case Of
the Belmont Sloan nupt0s. II there had been
| no other minister in the state. n maudamus
could have been issued. IT is held by some. com
| pelling Dir. Barrows TO perform the marriage
The license issued blythe Town Clcrk is all that
Is necessary for the clergyman to have. the
law presuming that the Town Clerks have
earned before issuing the license whether the
persons applying for 1t had legal right tC
| marry.
| Van Horsen-Rhoades.