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Show DIVORCE LAW TO BE AMENDED Nevada Assembly Strikes a Blow at Evil ; Hard Fight Ex-. peeted in Senate. CARSON CITV, Nov., Feb. 7. After several hours' struggle the divorce la.w amendment requiring twelve months' residence In the sta.tc, instead of six, passed the assembly by a vote of 30 to 22. It goes next to tho senate, where another an-other hard fight Is expected. The Barnes amendment adopted today Is to go into effect January 1. 1014. Pro-divorce advocates first attempted to have action on the. amendment postponed post-poned Indefinitely. They became .o insistent in-sistent with their demands that finally they were laughed down. Then a compromise com-promise wns attempted, an effort being made to amend the Barnes measure so that It would not go Into effect until December De-cember 31. 101 4, thus giving the pro-divorce pro-divorce advocates nn extra year of business. busi-ness. This occasioned the longest struggle strug-gle and the amendment to the Barnes measure was Anally defeated. Tho . roll call on tho Barnes amendment was then called and, It carried. Over 300 men and women working for the passage of tho measure came to the capital from other parts of the state in a special train this morning. While the assembly Is Democratic, tho measure adopted by It carries our in detail de-tail the recommendations of Governor Tasker I. Oddle. a Republican. |