The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-04
DROPS HIS DIVORCE BILL
WITHDRAWN BY ITS AUTHOR ON
ACCOUNT OF THE STRONG
FIGHT AGAINST 1T
EDITOR KEEPS HIS PLUM
Heads of Educational institutions
Pleased With Appropriations
Increase the Age of
Legal Newspapers.

BISMARCK, March ESPECIAL. THE
withdrawal of the divorce bill by Rep
resentative Leech, of. Cass county. means
probably that there will be no attempt
to shorten the term of residence requir-
ed to obtain a divorce and certainIv no
effort in this line viii be successful at
this session, as the time is now too short
to pass any new bill of the kind in the
face OF the strong opposition that de-
velOpS to any attempt to tinker with the
divorce laws Those who made the fight
two years ago for the repeal of the three
months residence clause may rest salts
fed that there will be no letting down of
| the bars to Divorces in the coming two
years. 1t is claimed that few persons
have suffered financially through the re-
peal of the law except lawyers who made
specially of the divorce business and a
few organized divorce bureaus through
the state, and that in the cities. where
divorces were wont TO congregate in for
mer times, there has been an improve
ment in the moral conditions The only
change that has been made in the di
vorce laws at this session is removing
insanity as a cause for absolute divorce
Two years ago law was passed adding
insanity to the list of causes. 1t is said
the bill was passed TO apply to certain
cases then pending or about to be
brought. In the two years since the law
taken of it, and experience has proven
that much injustice was wrought through
this provision of the law 1t has ac-
cordingly been repealed at this session.
Efforts to knock out the official estray
paper have proved a failure a this as at
previous sessions. The laws of the state
provide that the governor shall designate
some paper in the state which shall be
the official estray paper. in which no
tees OF estray stock shall be published
The paper receives a compensation of s.
from each county in the state At present
Editor futile, of the Mandan Pioneer.
is the holder of this plum, and a bill in
the house TO repeal the~law- creating the
paper as the official fstray paper has
just been postponed Indefinitely.
States attorneys have been having
some experience with the bill introduced
to give them control Of prosecutions. and
TO shut out Bosard & Bosard and other
private attorneys of the Anti-Liuuor
league. AS at first introduced the bill
gave states attorneys the sole control
Of prosecutions. When 1t came I'D in the
senate for passage 1t was amended to
make the attorney general of the state
equal in authority with the states at
torneys- IN bringing prosecutions in coun-
ties The states attorneys especially in
terested in the bill claim this amend
ment gives the attorney general more
power than he had before and as the
present attorney general has given out
that the liquor law must be enforced
those states attorneys, who want to
control matters in their own counties. do
not want the attorney general clothed
with so much authority Consequently
they viii seek TO amend the bill in the
house and get it back to its original
shape.