The Arizona sentinel., 1885-04-11

vetoed the woman suffrage bill. | Below is the opinion of the Ari- zona Silver Belt as to the Terri- torial Prison. The "Belt" is pub> lished at Globe, GIla county:
 "The penitentiary never should have been located at Yuma, but because it is there is no reason why We should con- tinue to be bled. It would be money in the pockets of taxpayers if it were aban- doned and our conviCts farmed out.''
 Such is the opinion of the Press of Arizona generally, but we ven- ture the assertion that by the time matters will have become regulated under the management of the present Prison Commis- sioners and the new law, there will be no more cause for com- plaint.
 San Buenaventura, the county seat of Ventura county, has a Society of Natural History. Re gently the following named fossils were presented to the Society by its president: Three specimens of ScutelIa Gibsii, one showing internal structure specimens of large pecten, Area microdonta, Tapes staminea, T, diversa, Pa. chydesma crassatelloides, Dem talium hexaganum, D, indian orum, Olivella bipIicata, Mono- ceros engonatum, Helix (Areonta) Traski, Ayersiana. Also caIcare~ Ous tufa, chert ball from Indian raDcheria, and other specimens.
 We venture the opinion that there is not two members of that society who know anything about the fossils named, nor the dead language in which the jaw-break- ing names are written. That President. we presume, is a splendid fossil specimen of ped antry and egotism, and he should have added himself to the list. Had he called one of his fossils ad museum he would have capped the climax.
 We publish on the first page oi this paper, to-day, the complete text of the amendment to the election laws of Arizona, which disfranchises persons who prac' tice polygamy. It is the hardes blow that Mormonism has evel been struck in this Territory However, we think this law un constitutional and our prediction IS that it will be stricken sooner or later, from the statute books One main reason for thinking s( is, that it inf1icts a punishment upon people who have not beer convicted through a process 0 law, of crime of which they are peremptorily told that, because they believe and practice polyg amy, they shall not have tbt right of. citizenship. The law too, conflicts with Article 13 O the Bill of Rights, where it say that "the civil and political right of no person shall be enlarged O abridged, on account of hIs opin ions or belief concerning matter of religion" No one denies tha Mormonism is religion, there fore, the law referred to is Tn con flict with that provision of tn, Bill of Rights. Section one Q Article XIV of the Constitution . of the United States, reads as fol lows: "All persons born. or nat uralized in the United States ant subject to the jurisdiction thereo are citizens of the United State and of the State wherein they re side" And no power under tn sun can take that right ava, from them. Further, the Consti tuition says: "No State shal make or enforce any law whicl shall abridge the privileges o immunities of citizens of the Uni ted States; nor shall any Stat deprive any person of life, fiber ty, or property without due pro cess of law, nor deny to any per