| Show llll U1US Of IIIMIO 1 statute t book of our northerr n bo > r pcwms to be In a ery mucl mlxd up condition few month no Ih supreme court ot the tat rndcred a decision Inxalldatlng one o the act I passed at the lot < uslon o tho legislature on the cround that th I mannr In which It wan l > acved did no conrorm to the requirements of th tat constitution Thla deelaior nocenrlly npiiled to all other aeta 01 the statute t book that wee not properly U ly paased and at once an Inqulr arose as to > > whlrh nets nuplv > oed to bIn b-In force w n > alld and which wer notOf Of course luch i a utatu vu n rruh pportunlty for lawyers not only tn Isplay their ertiditlon but to plan for the accompUshmnt of Irhd onclo audable or CthcrtUsi 80 trlous wai the condition created by the Plata su reme court decision referred to that aerllon ore mode to tio effect hat ulttmci of the district courts that had been held weto invalid and that their proceedings cre ultra Ires It was cMli questioned whether there cilslid a Mill < l law I under which a eRlsInture could concnc nnd extricate extri-cate the itnto from this extraordinary nod deplorable condition In I reipeit to Ito Iaoe The News understands hat the arlou8 grave nuestlona and 1 complication connected with the sit atlon art still pending a final solution of them hot having been reached On the top of all thl cornea the an puncimcnt that many dUorces that iac been granted In Idaho are in alld Thla assertion is I based on a decisIon rendered by Judge Stewart at Jolse yesterday In the div occecol In which Mrs Flora A Strode aues her unband John Strode n wealthy stockman stock-man for a decree land alimony Mr trode wan a dl > orccd woman before ohe married the man from whom she ow seeks a separation Judge Stewart olds that tho dlorcc was Invalid and thai 110 < was Incapable of contracting a lawful marriage with Strode The 00 non why Sirs Sirpdee dl orce from hcr first husband tool not volit < nre unld to apply to many other parallons of husband and wife by uppoacdly legal procedure and it follow fol-low that subsequent marriages con beached Iy the parties nre unlawful and the Issue of them Illegitimate How nany families may be disrupted or rondod dlsruptable by this decision nu on Imow hen complication of tho character lere described result from careless ess or Ignorance on the I art of law inkers or Judgea It la I time the people bestirred thcumlves t secure better end abler men to mnk and admlnlot tho laws I lie Impression Is I going abroad that the tropIC i of Idaho are ulTerlng tl0 consequences of putting ccktcsa nnd nconipetent men In iosl blot of power I and responsibility nnd her patrIotic tltIn of whom she hes many hould exrt thnclve to roe rcct RO grae on evil |
