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BILLS DEA LING WITH INDUSTRY.

The measures of secondary interest include some important Bills, especially those dealing with one branch of industry or another. The unrest in the coal Something like a record has Commission Act and the Coal Jindustry gave rise to the Coal been achieved by this Parliament Mines Act which followed it: in the eight months of its exist-then there was an extension of ence, says the Daily Chronicle the. Wages Regulation Act. 3 Parliamentary correspondent. National Health Insurance Act Such an output of legislation as raising the limit of qualification that of the six and a half months to a £250 wage, a Disabled Men since the Session opened is with-(Facilities for Employment Act, out a precedentin the recollection à Scottish Education Superannua- of Parliamentarians now living,tion Act, and an Irish Labourers and the whole history of Parlia-Act. ment can hardly produce its equal. The output to which establishing agricultural

Agriculture received un Ministers can point as the result fisheries councils; an Act reliev- of the labours of the Session is ing tenants whose holdings are also unique in the quality for put up for sale, and an Act to every Bill has been examined with more care and completeness Act was followed by others for prevent anthrax. The Police than the legislation of any the police of the City and of previous Session.

Ireland. Electoral law received

Act and

Hardly anything has been pass- additions from the Parliamentary ed under closure: the guilotine Elections (Soldiers) Act. and the has never once been used: every Representation of the People Bill at every stage has received (Returning Oncers Expenses) the fullest deliberation, and the Act. Ireland a new Local views of the most tiresome mem-Government Act, a Public Health ber have had full and patient(Medical Treatment of Children) hearing. This record is in itself Act, and a Criminal Injuries Act: a marvel. It is due partly to the Scotland the Intestate Husbands' fact that there has been little obstruction of the kind that Succession and War Charities Estate. Intestate Moveable wasted time in unnecessary ACIS. speeches, and in a large degree to the operation of the new rules of

WAR MEASURES. " procedure, by which so mach Army Annual Act, the Govern- War measures included the Committee work has been taken;

ment War Obligations Act. the

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out of the House of Commons Retired Officers (Civil Employ- and discharged by Standing Comment) Act, and the Matrimonial Causes (Dcasinion Troops) Act. ZEAL IS THE LORDS.

Other Acts related to Joint Stock. There has been a greater zeal, Banks Amalgamation,

the re- also, in the House of Lords in the election of Ministers, Merchant. close examination of Bills Shipping (Wireless). and a pum- emanating from the Commons, ber of departmental and pro- and no measure has been taken fessional and privileged matters. by the Peers as read. An in-i The slender output of the dependent Opposition has been private members included Mr. set up by the Peers, which has Walter Guinness's Animals exerted its energies systematical-(Anaesthetics) Act, the Check- ly in the examination and amend weighing Act of the Labour party, ment of the Commons' Bills-and Col. Yate's Statement of often, it must be said, to their Rates Act-all useful but un- improvement.

exciting measures.

The number of Bills introduced: In addition to these general by private member into the House Acts, 15 Provisional Order Bills of Commons or brought thither have been passed into law, as well from the Lords is remarkably as nine Confirmation Bills of a small. Out of 126 Bills brought like character, under the Private into the Commons only 35 were Legislation Procedure (Scotland) introduced by private members, Act, 1899. and only three of these have been, passed.

As an example of what can be accomplished by la strong Coali- WIDE FIELD OF LEGISLATION. tion House of Commons, the The Government Bills of first- foregoing etatement tells its class importance that have been own story. The time-wasting placed on the. Statute Book (devices. of.

party warfare

seen:

Acquisition of Land.

Air Navigation.

Aliens Restriction.

Anglo-French Treaty.

cover a very wide field, as will be have been reduced to a mini- mum, with the remarkable result that the work of the House of Commons, in particular, has been more thorough than it it has ever been under the distracting in- fluences of party tactics. The saying that "the duty of an Op- position is to oppose" has been proved to be a fallacy; this Ses- sion, so far, has taught that the most worthy role of an Opposition is to make good legislation better.

Finance.

Forestry.

Housing and Town Planning. Housing (Ireland).

Housing (Scotland).

Increase of Rent.

Land Setttlement.

Ministry of Health.

Ministry of Transport.

Navel Military and

Air

Service.

Patents and Designs.

Police..

Profiteering.

Pre-War Practices.

Scottish Board of Health.

Treaty of Peace..

War Loan.

War Pensions.

CHEEFOO BREAKWATER. A Chefoo correspondent of the Ching Critic writes The breakwater will not be finished at the close of the year and there seems little likelihood of its even being finally completed by this time next year. It is said that there have been difficulties in

Welsh Church (Temporalities), procuring necessary building Others are still in process of ex stone, etc. But the whole work amination, such as the Govern is taking far too long. When it: ment of India Bill (before & Joint is finally finished it will be Committee of both Houses), the interesting to see what the total Ministries and Becretaries Bill, cost has been and how it com

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POWER TO REMARRY AFTER SEPARATION: Recent prosecutions courts have drawn attention to the increase of bigamy in this country, and it is suggested that, to counteract the practice, the warriage laws should be strength ened.

Mrs. Seaton-Tiedeman, secret- ary of the Divorce Law Reform Union, discussing the problem with a representative of the Daily Chronicle, remarked that in a large number of cases where bigamous marriages are contract- ed one of the parties is separated.

"It often happens," she said, that after separation a man or a woman wants to marry. The intention is not criminal; the desire is to have a legal union; and you can only meet the diffi culty by altering the existing law of separation.

"We want to break the existing system of permanent separation. with the power to remarry, because we argue that it is this system which is the cause of the increase in bigamous marriages.

"I do not suggest that there are not criminal cases where a man goes about the country marrying women for the sake of what he can get out of them; but undoubtedly the bulk of cases are due to permanent separation.

ANXIOUS TO REMARRY. "During the past three years I have had an enormous number of inquiries from men and women. who are legally separated and are anxious to remarry. They have not heard of their wives or husbands for eight, nine or ten years, and they ask, 'Can I marry, again ?"

The reply is that they can remarry if they are prepared to swear that they have neither seen nor heard, nor had knowledge that their spouse was alive during the last seven years. After that period death may be presumed. and marriage may take place.

If afterwards the legal spouse appears, then the second marriage. is not legal, and any children therefrom are illegitimate. In several instances the legal spouse re-appears after tbe second | marriage. The intention of the second ceremony, however, is not criminal at all; it is merely the result of the existing law."

A REGISTRAR'S REMEDY. A rexistrar personally account- ed for the increase in bigamous marriares by the presence in this country of overseas troops, on whose antecedents it was difficult to keep a check.

"If you deduct these cases," he suggested, it will probably be found that there has been little or no increase. Within the last 18 months these soldiers have been required to produce military records to substantiate. their de- clarations, and this has diminish- ed the evil

"So far as I can see," he added. the only effective method of preventing bigamy is for every individual to have a registration certificate, posted up-to-date by, say, the police of the locality where he or she was born, and for this to be furnished to the clergy or the registrar, when marriage is proposed.

"Inquiries could then be instituted on the basis of the card, and the statements of the contracting parties could be examined. But the system would be complicated, and would require! a wide extension of the present administration."

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