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Show Ik: jODDIE DEFENDS THE ;; I DIM1M f. Declares Nevada Has- Per-I Per-I formed' a Signal Duly in ; ; -Behalf of Happiness. ' ' t ' K - ' W 'v , . Law will -be changed , ij Norn's of Montana-Presides al j & First Session of "Con'fer-! "Con'fer-! f ence of Governors, w: . I'j RICHMOND, Vu.;: Dec, ii. t.'ovemor j Taster L. Oddie of Nevada, in a dis- . cusslou over uniform xlivorcc laws at 'llio covnruors' contVreueo today, eon-1 eon-1 teuded that Nevada in a ureal majority ' i of instances had performed a tdRiial a "duty in bcbnlf of hiiiinin happiness -stud Sp pubHc morals by making divorce easily o obUi'.icd. Ho insisted . that divorces ; granted by the NunJi: courts'- formed i y out a n cprliriblo part of the divorces ' granted by the country as a whole.- An i oyenvlicIjiihi portion of the Nevada divorce volony at ttciio, ho said, came ( i from about four or-livij Atlantic coast statc'i, "the divorce laws of which arc of considerable antiquity and Jcorre- bpondiuK .harshness. ' . "I do not contend, ' said the Nevada, executive, 'that divorces should be t jrriintil tor light' causes: 'but I d0 con- tend l hat na between the two extremes of la:; divorces and ultra restrictions preventing diverce, the probability is i uv favor of the lax divorce system re-sidling re-sidling in a better state s of social ; morals than thb otucr.'J'' , i Defends State Lav. Goveruor Uddio declared,, in defend , in-r Nevada ?s divorce law, that it wna, 1. olimiuatiu the six months' rcsideuce clau&e. almost ideutical with the roconi. . ' h mcmlatiuu for a uniform law made by S the .-mcricsu Har association, and $ iiiaiiilained that slates that have held Nevada up to ridiuulc because of. hor iff divorce laws had in the' state laws i of marked unfairness, uot respecting ( . the cjvjl rights of v.omcu. CoutiuuiiiL', Governor Oddic dcclnred 5 that Xe.'idu docs not want the di-j- ort'c 011611103". ''Tho results of the recent election,'' Jip said. 'in the state 1 '. indicate? with bine ' positivenoss ' that i ho comiup legislature will amend the 'h resident section olj the '.-ftg 'too that a bona tide residence of atJcast ono ) ear, i"te:id of six mouths, will be re-r re-r tiircd in all caso? where tho cause of - act toil arose outiide the state: and I i -.hall o recommend in my mcefago to the, legislature. There u no demaud , 1 or dociro to modify or change thn I .'round lor divorce and in this eouncc-i eouncc-i tioh 1 wish to make my point clear 1 that Nevada has no apologies to make i in auv other state for its 'divorce f law? in respect to the. grounds for di-J di-J orco."'' ' -t ) Governor liawley flf - Idaho -also' j spoke on the same subject, j Norris Presides. .. J ; Governor Norm, of Moataua pre-i pre-i tided over the first session today. A diseussiou ou a state iucotuc tax in whii-h Governor MVGovcrn of WTiseou-n'u. WTiseou-n'u. former Gmeruur Will-on of Kcu ' ueiry, read papers, took- place also, 5- Governor Willfou criticised the pro-j" pro-j" posed income lax amendment to the A I'ODstitution 03 au encroachment upon .. tatCHJ richt.s aud liositivc impairment f of tho i itaijtv of the scvcrnl slates. ! " At, the same timo Mr. Willson had : nothing but eommcndatiou to speak for ; the staiv income- tax, w;hich he dc-. u dared "ia the best, fairest and oldest . , of all taxes, if collected for home use . in tho locality where other contributors c. live aud know something of each other's !iremllslnmeK.,, t Cow K. McGovcrn of Wisconsin ;'said the Wisconsin iucomo tax had , succeeded ah strikingly as the old per-Y per-Y iouul property tax failed- in compelling . persons of means to pav their just share j .to' the Mippbrt of thn state fco'vcrumenl. The Wisconsin law, according to Governor Gov-ernor McGoveru, ia so-drawn as to pre.-veut pre.-veut all efforts at evasions either by corporations or individuals. lTo said a well known Wiscousiu lawyer spent two months in an attempt to iind some loophole loop-hole in the statute that would permit of evasion aud then admitted that the law was "air tight." |
