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Show BILL INTRODUCED THAT PLEASES CLERGYMEN IT PLACES A RESTRICTION UPON t DIVORCED PERSONS. The Latter May B Fined For Prevailing Prevail-ing Upon Ministers to Marry Them By Misrepresentation. Chicago, March 3. Chicago clergymen clergy-men heartily endorse a bill introduced introduc-ed in the legislature providing for frno or imprisonment for divorced per-Bons, per-Bons, who, by falsehood and misrepresentation, misrepre-sentation, prevail upon mlnlstora to marry them. It is intended to remedy a defect in the state law which provides pro-vides that no divorced porson Bhall re-marry within one year, and in some cases two years after the decree ot divorce. This act provides no means whereby the clerk Issuing the license, or the clergyman performing the ceremony, cer-emony, can ascertain, the facts except by inquiry of the principals to the marriage, and provides no penalty for the making of false answers. "The Catholic church is in favor of the bill." said Chancellor E. M. Dunne. "While the church recognizes no such, thing as divorce, we have canonical impediments which operate to annul a marriage. Misrepresentation Misrepresenta-tion In regard to one of theoe impediments impedi-ments occasionally lnduoes a priest to perform a marriage ceremony that ts afterward found to be without valldt ity." "This bill ought to be enacted into law," said Rev. W. C. DeWitt, of the Western Theological Seminary. "Personally, "Per-sonally, I believe that no clergyman should marry a couple he docs not know. "There are occasions, howevor, when a minister is called upon to marry a couple with, whom he is not acquainted, acquaint-ed, and for whom there is no one to vouch, and this law will not only protect pro-tect the clergy man from imposition, but will be an accommodation to tho couples themselves." |