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Show BUSINESS MEN OPPOSE REFORM Barnes .Divorce Bill Comes Up in Nevada Scnnic Monday; View oJ! Cardinal Gibbons. UMNO, Nov., Fob. 8. Thc Barnes divorce di-vorce bill Avill be presented to the senate sen-ate Monday and in all probability referred re-ferred to the committee on judiciary, consisting of three Democrats and two Republican.. The majority of the committee com-mittee are reported as (avoring the measure Many members of the house and senate were in Reno today during the adjournment, and considerable pressure pres-sure was brought to boar on senators by the local business men in opposition to the reform. A petition from the business busi-ness men to the assembly was blocked Friday and an effort, will be made to present it for the consideration of t.ho Bcnate. Advocates of the reform believe be-lieve the senate will favor it, but thc members refrain from committing themselves. them-selves. The same popular campaign of letter writing and telegrams is planned by the reform element as was adopted for the assembly. BALTIMORE, Feb, S. Cardinal Gib-bons Gib-bons expressed today gratification over the passage of an amendment to the Nevada Ne-vada divorce law. "The legislation which affects Reno is a step in the right direction, but only a slop,'' the cardinal said. "1 am a heliovor in a law making the obtaining of a divorce impossible. A ll hough it is better to havo certain limiting statutes in the various states than none at all, thc Christian people of the nation should not be satisfied to allow matters to rest where they arc now." |