The evening times., 1899-10-05
KINGS PALACE DEPT STORES,
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! intention of making the State home" must
have existed for years.
/ Fourth. Ii the defendant is personally not-
ned IN ,r out OF the state, publication can be
granted by the court or Judge only altar search
followed up for one year to find the defendants ;
address place of abode.
I Fifth Divorce rot to he granted on ddHlis
! slons in the peadngs in default, and trial
must be had 10y the court in open session,
Sixth. After divorce either party may marry
again. but dv"rce granted publication sony
not to take effect until six months after the
decision.
seventh. The word divorce" as used in the
bill means divorce vincuio" throughout 50
The popular voice" continued Secretary
Mathews in his report, demanded. that
which would be an immense Improvement
on the present state of affairs Whatever
consideration decided the founders OF the
, Republic to leave the subject to the several
States. the altered condition of the coun-
try calls for change in this respect. The
subject is one of national concern, and the
legislation should be exclusively that Of
the National Congress, SO as to secure
common marriage and divorce law for the
whole country. In this way each citizen
could know what was legal or illegal all
the land over. A second result of such
change would be that the legislat on, being
that of Congress. could be watched more
easily, and men in all parts of the coun-
try could unite to obtain by degrees i'm
proyements on any system that might be
adopted The whole moral life of the con-
munity would thus be Placed on firner
, and more honorable basis sei
In the District of Columbia.
Secretary Mathews here presented to the
council in brief form the legislation at
present in force in the different, States,
leaving it, he said, for the churches and
the whole people of the country to deal
with the information submitted in what
ever manner may appear to them best fit
ted to gain the object all desired-a plre
race and q moral people.
Marriage in the District of Columbia,
he said was void when incestuous; with
| out consent of guardians; bigamous; eth
/ er party insane; parties are under legal
age. Divorce here may be obtained on ac-
count Of bigamy. but no restraint on the
party; physical unftness; adultery;
habitual drunkenness for three years;
cruel treatments endangering the life or
health of the party complaining; willful
desertion and abandonment for two years.
If the offence be committed outside of the
District, the plaintiff must have resided
within the State for the two years next
previous to the action.
In Virginia, he reported, marriages are
void and voidable when between a white
and a colored person; incestuous; biga-
nous; either party under the age of con-
sent; lunacy or idiocy; physically unfit.
Divorce may be obtained on account of
adultery; natural or incurable physical I'm
fitness; confinement in penitentiary; con-
viction prior to the marriage of either
party, without the knowledge of the other
of an infamous offence; where either party
has been for two years a fugitive from
Justice; willful desertion or abandonment
for three years: when at the time of the
marriage the wife was pregnant without
her husbands knowledge; when prior to
the marriage and without her husbands
knowledge the wife had been a prostitute.
The jurisdiction is residence for one year
in the State next preceding the commence
ment of the action.
In Maryland divorce may be obtained on
account of physical unfitness at the time
of the marriage; the marriage being legal-..
ly null and void; adultery; abandonment
for three years; when the woman before
marriage had been unchaste without the
knowledge of her husband II the: offence
be committed outside of the State, plaintiff
or defendant must have resided within the
State for two years previous to the action.