Arizona citizen., 1874-06-06

The Senate also confirmed McKean as chief justice of Utah.
 The Senate military committee has amended McCormick's bill providing for the sale of such portions of Yuma, Whip pie and Date Creek military reserves Tn Arizona as may not be needed by the army. The amendment bill authorizes the sale of portion of Yuma reservation only.
 At the annual meeting of the stockhold- CTS of the California and Texas railway construction company there was not a quorum present and the meeting adjourn ed until to-day, when detailed statement of the company's financial position and prospects will be presented.
 WASHINGTON, May 3.-In Senate to-day Foreman called up the bill to establish the Terl itory of PembiDa and provide tenn porary government therefor. Sargent moved an amendment providing that the right to vote or hold office in the Territo- ries should not be restricted on account of race, color or sex. He said he believed that the amendment was not only JuSt1- fled but was required by the organic law of the United States. Numerous petitions
 had been presented to Congress for this right to females, and the only notice talk en of them was to report adversely. In the other House the Republican party was to a certain extent pledged to extend sui frage to women Tn the Territories. To con- fer upon women the right of suffrage would be to open wide avenues for them and tend to the advancement of society. Give the women opportunity through the ballot-bOx and they will break up neia- riOuS practices now existing and purify society. The spirit of the Constitution should be carried out and women allowed to vote. Stewart favored the amendment; Morton favored the amendment as em- bodying the fundamental principle of the government, that all men, meaning man. kind, are created equal. He held that wo- men had the same right to suffrage under this government that man had and that to give her the right of suffrage would be to elevate the election franchise in the country. Flannlgan announced hlmSel1 as a new convert to wOmen'S suffrage by the glorious efforts of the woman's crusade against intemperance; Merrlman did not believe that the right of suffrage tended to elevate women or that any considerable number wanted it, nor did he endorse the revolutionary construction put upon the Declaration of Independence by Morton. Stewart said that in ten years rom now there would not be man in the Senate opposed to wOman'S suffrage, whereupOn Merriman and COnkling asked stewart why he did not propose to have it tried in the District of Columbia. Carpenter favor ed the amendment and wOman'S suffrage everywhere. Ferry of Michigan favored the amendment-the amendment was finally rejected, l9 to P, as follows:
 Yeas-Anthony, Chandler, Carpenter, ConOver, Ferry, Flanngan, Gilbert, Har- vey, Mitchler, Morton, Patterson, Pratt, Sargent, Sprague, stewart, Tipton, West, Washburne and WindOm.
 Nays-Allison, Bayard, Foreman, Bout we'll, Buckingham, COngling, Clayton, Cooper, Davis, Edmonds, Frelinghuyson, Hagar, Hamilton, Hitchcock, Jones, Kel- ly, McCreery, Merriman, Merrill, Nor wood, Ramsey, Samson, Salisbury, Scott, Sherman, Wadleigh and Wright
 WAsINGToN, June 4.-Senator Hagar gave notice to-day that he will move amendment to rivers and harbOr appro- priation bill, so as to provide for an ap- propriation of $S0,000 to be expended in turning San Diego rIver. HOughtOn intro duced bill to same effect in House.
 PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-Col. Thos. A. Scott was yesterday unanimously elected President of the Pennsylvania railroad company, vice Thomson, deceased.