The record-union., 1899-02-10

law of 1897; it had only tended to in
crease immortality. He believed in any
thing that would prevent divorce, but
not in anything that would prevent
marriage.
Valentine said he, like Dibble, had
been present at the thirty-second ses-
sion, when the present law was. enacted.
He believed then it was a good law,
and his experience went to prove that
it had worked well. Our divorce laws
were all wrong, anyway, and when we
got a good law we should not tamper
with it. We were too prone to amend
Or repeal laws which were really good
ones. There is no feeling of stability.
The people never know what the laws
are going to be for more than two
years ahead.
Lardner said that good many hard
things had been said of South Carolina,
but he was proud to say that that State
had no divorce laws at all, and divorce
on any ground was illegal.
F'eliz believed O'Brien's bill was
good, only it should go farther and re-
peal the one-year law altogether. The
law as it stands does not promote
morality.
Cosper said the lawyers present would
bear him out in saying that in four out
of every five divorce cases the arrange
ment for a subsequent marriage by
one or both parties were made before
the divorce was applied for. The law
of 1897 was a move in the right direc-
tion. 1t was we'll to encourage mar
riage but it was not we'll to encourage
divorce in order to encourage marriage.
If there was no hope of immediate mar
riage after divorce, many rash plans
and hopes would die out
White supported Dibble's motion to
postpone indefinitely. The cause of
divorce he said, was the ease with
which divorce and subsequent marriage
could be effected.
O'Brien defended his bill but in vain,
as Dibbles motion carried, and the
measure will be lost in the files.
Among the bills read a second time
We're the following, which now go to
the third reading file:
A. B. 1876, Meade-To regulate the
granting of telephone and telegraph,
street railroad and electric light, heat
and power, and other franchises, by
municipal authorities of incorporated
cities, cities and counties, and towns,
within the State of California, and re-
pesling certain conflicting Acts.
A. B. 660 Substitute for A. B. 23O.-.
To amend the Civil Code, and repeating
Section 64S of the Civil Code, relating
to mutual building and loan associa-
tions and other similar corporations.
A. B. 45S, Brown TO amend the
Penal Code by adding a new section
thereto, relating to the detention of
books and other property belonging to
any public or incorporated library,
reading room, museum or other edu-
cational institution
A. B. 60, COsper-To amend an Act
regulating the sale of the lands un-
covered by the recession or drainage of
the water of inland lakes and unsegre-
gated swamp and overflowed lands, and
validating sales and surveys heretofore
made.
A B. 257, Raub-To add new sec
ton to the Political Code, relating to
the payment of invalid assessments in
reclamation districts. and the crediting
of the amount paid Ito the tract of land
upon which the same was assessed),
upon subsequent assessments.
A. B. 147, Marvin-To amend the Po-
litical Code, relative to the Harbor
Master of the port of Eureka, and rela-
tive to the salaries of the members of
the Board of Harbor Commissioners.
A. B. 159, Arnerich-Making an ap-
preparation to pay the claim of the
State Soard Of Horticulture for moneys