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GROUND FOR DIVORCE.

SEX EQUALITY.

In the House of Commons on June 8th, the Matrimonial Causes Bill, which was present- ed by Major Entwistle was considered on report. The bill provides that a wife shall be able to institute proceedings for divorce on the ground that her husband has been guilty of adultery alone, instead of having to prove desertion or cruelty in addition,

CUSTODY OF CHILDREN.

Major Barnott moved the insertion of the following new clause;

Upon any position the Court shall not either before making its final decres or in or after the final decree deprive the bus band of the custody or control of the

of

act of adultery or of a

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Major Entwistle accepted the amend ment on the understanding that he would hubsequently move words to provide that nothing in the clause should affect or take away any right of a wife existing immediate ly before the passing of the Act..

The amendment was agreed to, as was the amendment proposed by Major Entwistle

Mr. D. Herbert moved that it should be a discretionary defence to any petition that the wife had at any time since the marri- age been guilty of adultery whether such adultory bean condoned or not, and

where such discretionary defence had been established the Court might refuse the relief applied for.

The amendment was negatived by voica to 47.

This concluded the report stage, and on the mution for the third reading,

dissolution of the ground of a single act of | morals of the believed that mariage

it was to the main in the custody of the father. It was well known

chac after a certain age boys were much better looked after in the custokly of the father than in that of the mother,

Mr. Blandell, seconded.

artificial

marriage

had was not to ru

Mr. Blundell moved the rejection, describ- children the marriage (if any) merely bring the tava a most-deleterious effect on the bill as bad and immoral," and of a single

likely to

In the Roman foss the Court shall be of Catholic Church they thus for other reasons the lasinud was a binding institution, and the fit or proper person to retain such vows remained the same no matter what is not a fit or custody or control.

submitted that where there was he might be the laws of the country. This bill nry instance of conjugal infidelity salitney

was an attempt to force an

equali perhaps following a glass of wine too much where no equality existed in Nature, and power of Parliament could not do that. at dinner-if the husband was to be deprived Sir E. Hume-Wil of the custody of his children as a uniter of said

that the

objection in opposing the bill, course, in addition to losing the society of moving the inequalities of the sexes but to the his wife, too

too serious a a penalty would be in way in which it was done. He

the ficted. But rest of the children to m

thought from that, in some caseN

right way would have been to have made it as hard for the husband to divorce his wife as it now was for wife to divorce her husband. He would have added to that which the husband had to prose, instead of taking away from that which the wife had to prove. He would do · 80 because he could not help deploring what he thought was one of the saddest things of our age, namely, the tendency of young nec people to rush into the divorce court," and anything which mule it easier, or which wife to rush into the divorce court was in held out temptations to either husinnd gr his estimate a deplorable thing. The ma- ment the bill wax passed thuro would be divorce cases. They were taking any a enormous increase in the number of

safeguards every day. If the bill, which would shut off the light of publicity rin divorce cases, was jussed, one of the few remaining safeguards which kept people out of the divorce court as present would be removed.

Major Entwistle declined to as the proposed clause, the said was thorough

which ly unnecessary because the Court had at solute

discretion in to the custody of

Tegurd the children. The clause would destroy the absolute discretion of the Court.

Dr. Chapple, who opposed the clause, said it would have the effect of wrecking the bill. Not one woman ir a hundred would tako divorce proceedings if she knew that it that action were successfat she would lose Her children

come

Mr. D. Herbert urged that the time had when there should be the trifling limit of the discretion of the Court pro-

by the

the amendent. At present the party was deprived of the custody of the children, and it wave of the Custly for that them at school. What he desired was that party to an order even to visit children should not be deprived of the -ul- vantage of having ather because that father had been guilty of a slip under circumstances which cried out for forgive

The clause dil not give the custody. of children to the father it his conduct had shown him gen

generally to be an immoral person. Sir F. Banbury asked if there was a single alember of the House who, was to Miy that because in

of adultery, H circumstances a man had ecmanitted an act he was not fit to have charge of his children. It might be that the single act was committed after a man had dined unwisely and taken more than was good for him. This question must be discussed frankly, not from the sentimental, but from the practical point view.

Aa Hon.

Mr. J. Jones and that in the East-end of London women were compelled to have with men because they were tou poor to get a

roree

Sir Hume-Williams: They can take advantage of the Poor Persons Act.

Mr. Jones said he was a Catholic, but he wanted to face the facts. It would be far better to allow people to break the "bonds

which Loand them to unworthy partners than to compel them to pretend that they. were living in matrimony.

A BACKED CONTRACT"

infidesband,

Sir F. Banbury said he held very strongly that marriage was a sacred coutnice, not to be entered upon lightly, a contract for good or fur evil, for the remainder of the lives of the people concenied. In the case of a woman not wishing to have relations with h

the latter might yield and commit an with another wotnad, which might lead to a demand for usoney from wife what had happened. The husband would either have to pay the money for all in the circumstances, a moral commit, or be taken into the

the coufessionale careful, this is not t

Sir F. Banbury continued that in view of

of

the fact that the country was in a period of husband as the pries of not telling the

transition it was most important that they should see to the upbringing of the children, and more particularly of tus boys.

"A CURSE TO THE TATM."

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Act

Mr. Rawlinson said that the bill would be part

of

used for the purpose of collusive divorcos. It would be easy under the provisions the hill for a man to supply his wife with suflicient evidence to enable her to divorce him. Where the husband and wife arranged these collusive divorces the custody of the children was often a barrier. This clause would largely rentove that difficulty, and he was, therefore, opposed to it. Easy divorce was, a curse to the State und "a curse to society, and

would, therefore, resist a and he proposal which would make this type of divorce easier.

On a division the proposed new clause was negatived by 172 votes to 25.

Mr.D. Herbert then proposed another now clause which provided that the Court

Mr. Duanico opposed the bill. In so far as it ought to lay down any standard of morality for both sexes he was absolutely in agreement with it." Adultery was adel tery, whether committed by the man or the woman, and deserved to be deprecated and severely censured. But the bill did not simply lay down a common standard 62 morality. His objection was that it took away that differentiation of treatment which every judicial law ought to allow, He did not think any lion. tnember would dare to get up and contend that the act of adultery, on the part of a man was, generally speaking, as grave in its conse quences a nct of adultery са the part of a woman. The woman or the mother occupied a place in the home which the father did not occupy. In

де

shall have the like powers of making sincrces or orders for alimony to be paid by wife to or for the benent of a the case of the women such an act must husband as it has hitherto had of makalect the home to a far greater extent than ing decrees or orders for alimony to be in the case of a gun. The married woman paid by a husband to or for the benelit could, undetected, bring into the home the of a wife.

fruits of her sin, and the husband

He said that the only object he had in th

to bring Section, 45 of the Act

view

WILS

of

modern

mann

In consequence, cherish and throughout life the child of another 1857 up to date and in accordance with He believed that the bill was the first step

ideas of the freedom and independ-in a

powerful

campaign to make the dis ence of women and the right of women solution of the marringe more easy, and whatever did that was a fatal blow at the ointed very

foundation of our national greatness

to hold their own property.

Captain Thorpe, in seconding,

out that, if clause were accepted the and at the fabric of our bomes. Court would have an opportunity of mak- The House divided on the motion that ing some provision for the children of the the bill be read a third time, when there marriage.

voted: Major Entwistle suggested that the For clause was outside the scope of the bill, which was limited to divorce, petitions ins tituted by the wife. In any case, however, ba suggested tank it was unnecessary, inasmuch under Section 45 of the principal Act, if

a wife had property of her own, there was

Against

... 257 23

Majority for ...

231:

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The clause was rejected by 148 to 05.

Mr. D. Herbert moved an amendment to prevent an act of adultery committed be

the passing of the Act being admitted

ford

as a cause for divorce. If the amendment

were not accepted, directly the bill became

Law

the wife who had evidence that her

husband had committed an ብሮ። of adultery twenty ago could get a divorce,

years. Afr. Thornton seconded

tie

Mr. Rawlinson asked the House to think twice before rejecting the amendment. When the bill was in Committee he had no Idea that it was to be retrospective. Tako

case of married couple who

separated for reasons of incompatibility of years ago temper. In view of the fact that they were living apart, the husband, if he committed adultery, would not commit a marital offence at all. This bill came along and al- tered the whole position, and the wife could begin proceedings for divorce.

Mr.

Hemmerde said, that reference had been made to the type

of man who calculated his rights a husband and com

totery, and it had been pointed

mitted

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