Show UNIFORM MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE lAWS ARE UP IN SENA IE Senator Smith Fathers Bills Bis a at Request of Body Working in All Al States n By fly request of or the tho committee on uniformity uni- uni of ot laws Jaws which soaks to have hav uniform divorce laws Jaws In all nJ tha tho tho states state s sand and territories of ot tho the union Senator Conner Denner X X Smith In the yesterday yester day Introduced a n measure regulating annulment t of or and divorce and repealing tho ho present state laws on thoLo subjects on Ou Als at t the z of or tho committee uniformity of or laws of ot which ho J 1 H 11 Letcher of ot Salt Lake and L. L L I. I L. L L Baiter ho no of are aro members for Utah Introduced a n ill declaring null anc anch and 01 h voId here r In ln thIs state stae marriages prohibited In here which mn may have o hn been performed u other otner states or countries to which the parties went v with lh the Intent o or of avol avoiding Ing the tho laws of or this state f Tho rJ ho uniform divorce law proposed by Mr air Smith gives gl es tho the following as ns causes cause tar Or tug the annulment of ot marl rages th tIme tho causes having ln to exist at the time o ot of marriage incurable impotency With wit wih respect to tho marital relations possession pos pos- session session by either cither party part of or an affinity when either party has hn husband or wife living when hen b fraud by force or COercion COer- COer ciO clon cion at th the tho stilt Bult of ot th the injured party when has not been confirmed by his or her hec acts Insanity of ot either part party at af tho ho suit of o tho the 1 when married before she sho 16 W vies S 16 unless sh she sho confirms the tho marriage after attaining that ago ro at the suit Hult of or the husband when married before he was IS 18 unless subsequently confirmed after ater arriving at that a age e. e Divorce I- I r o of ot two kinds from Crom tho bonds bond 01 JL UI matrimony or merely morely from bed and board are nrc set forth In tho the bill bl Causes Cause for tor divorce from tho bonds of or matrimony matri- matri mony are listed as follows Adultery bigamy conviction fo for tor crime by competent court and tho the In ing ng of ot two sorIn sor years years' Imprisonment or longer longcr extreme extremo cruel cruelty willful wilful desor desor- I tio lon tion for tor two years habitual drunkenness drunken drunken- ness for two years tars Causes for divorce e from bed and board are the tho same with tho addition of ot this Hopeless Insanity of the additon hus bus bant band Tho bill hl provides that no decree o or of divorce shall be bo granted If It It appears to the tho no satisfaction of ot tho the court that that there ha hus been collusion of ot tho the parties o ot of the tho action of or actions partes for annulments und divorces Is placed In the thA district courts of ot the tho state No 0 action acton for divorce for tor any causes s other othor than adultery and bigamy caus shall be bl brought unless one ono of ot tho parties has lias been a bona bona tide fido resident partes of or the state for two years cars prior to the tho beginning begin begin- ning of or tho time action acton When adultery or bigamy aro tho the causes for divorce acton ac- ac ton lon Ion ma may be started when the tho plaintiff IB is a n bona fide tide resident of ot tho state at the time action acton is begun besun Final decrees decree ma may be granted a a year car after tho di divorce di- di vorce Is In entered Tho other bill bl Introduced by Senator Smith no not only makes null nun and vol void oid the nan nan-la go In another r of ot persons persona prohibited from wedo wedding here but pro pro- vides ids that tho tImo officer issuing marriage licenses shall Inquire whether Issuing the partes par- par tics tes are arc not prohibited from marrying In n their own Jurisdiction an and It If If haming havIn ham nav- In ing ng knowledge that tho they are arc so He ho Issues tho license he Is guilty I guIty J of a misdemeanor Both bills bis ero referred to time tho com com- on omm judiciary |