The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-10
will not have adjourned before the re-
suit Will be seem
Should Guard Homes.

will not have adjourned before the re-
suit will be seen.
should Guard Homes.
Rabbi Calisch said that nothing is
more sacred to the Commonwealth than
the sanctity and purity of the home.
This bill would allow the perpetrator
of evil to benefit by the wrong he mas
done. 1t seemed to him great dan-
ger and q menace. Abuses might creep
in. Suspicion attaches to IT, and the
Legislature should beware of it.
The frs. families OF Virginia" he
said IT believe not only stand for the
first here, but for the first in chastity,
purity and honor in the whole Arneri-
can nation, and 1 want them to remain
So" Rocounting the biblical sto:y OF
David and Uriah, he said The assembly
should not listen to him who wants to
put the Legislature as the Uriah In tho
forefront of tho battle, so as to bring
The Commonwealth to pollution and To
death.
Eugene C. Massle made a legal arsu-
mont. He said that divorces have In
creased threefold in recent years. Thla
bill. he said. would destroy existing
reasons which might lead to reconcllia-
ton.
Legislature Should Specify.
r. B. Davis, OF Petersburg, was UNI
willing to give the guilty party any
remedy at ali unless The injured party
shall ask for decree. Courts ne SAID
are but individuals, and the Legislature
should specify the causes Tor divorces.
IT has always been held IN Vlrslhia
that "may" means ''must' IN suc1l
cases. He said that If man cannot
control his passions he ought not 10
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/ 1T to help him to dc so.
That the proposed law does not
change the method Of procedure was
tho argument OF Hamilton WILCOX, OF
Petersburg. 1t is an acknowledged
| practice, he said. to grant decree 1or
absolute divorce to the injured party
as a matter of right when separa-
| ton and hopelessness OF reconciliation
was proved, and such would apply no"
to the guilty party. He said TINS Wa
/ the first time he had ever heard %
lawyers coming to the Virginia Legls-
lature asking for O. law in aid or tAe
guilty party,
Mr.. Lees speech closed the debate
He is, as is wcll known one Of the
foremost criminal lawyers in the state
He is an expert In tho art Of public
speaking, and brilliant indeed Is nc
! who can get an advantage OF him II
debate, He was accorded the closest
attention.
F. Cuts Out tributes.
He had, he said, expected to be met
| by argument instead of the abuse and
i vituperaton which this bill had draw,
i from unmerited and ill-considered OPP
position, lie was not here, ne said
to pay pretty tributes to Virginia nor
to Virginia womcn-thc women need
ed no tribute.
| Unless he could prove, he SAID. that
the proposed bill was in keeping VIII,
the usual custom in Virginia no Woulo
Withdraw II, lie expected 10 aoufess
the committee as a lawyer, aHu Wou'o
not speak to the galleries.
lie called attention to the 1act ina
courts may now inhiblt remarrlase y.
the case of adultery. but this Is 4el'
10 tho court The history OF inc Worie
he SAID, has proven that the most uan
serous entity In society IS pelsu'
bound, Vet unbound. The bars are W.. :
ne eontended, being thrown down, amu
the olll creates no new GROUND 10Y W. W.
Vofee. II relates purely to cases Wii !, ),
the homes for which the ministers ''s.u :
pieaded had already been broken -
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