Arizona republican., 1899-02-26
That the Time Nov for Voting
 Residence.
BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE
Delivery of inc Goods in a Trade for Which Payment is Now 10 Be riade by Defeat of Woman Suf- frage, Freight Rafe, Passenger BilIS-How if Was Done.

Council bill passed the house yes terday, and will go to the governor for signature tomorrow. In the passage of this bill a valuable consignment of goods was delivered according to con- tract. and payment in kind will be an- ticipated and demanded before the close of the session. The passage of the bill is the prologue to a four-act drama.
 Council bill makes six months res idence long enough to give the right to vote in Arizona. The bill is meri- tollous. and the general effect of such a law would be beneficial to the terri tory. The intelligent settler from the east, who is invited to come, can vote as intelligently after three months residence here as he can in a year, for there are no complex or unusual prob lens of local government to be solved. On the ether hand, the shortness of the time makes possible the ccloniza- tion of voters, and .suolh colonization makes possible, among other acts, the removal of county seats. Some such political or selfish motive prompted the introduction Of council bill 6. The same motive created the existing law, which became law over Governor Mur- phys veto, and which raised the time of residence from six months to a year. Judging from this, Governor Murphy will sign the bill passed yesterday.
 The bill was introduced early in the session, as it's number indicates, and reached the house February 6, where it was hung Ip for trading purposes. Its consideration in the council was the occasion of much merriment on the part of the members, the rnajorny Of the gentlemen speaking On l-5 merits. MT. Carpenter led in the opposition to it. for the reason that short residence for citizenship was undesirable in Yuma, it being on the border. Curi- ously enough, his colleague in the house. MT. Doan, voted for the bill yes terday. The bill passed the honse by a vote of If ayes to nays, MT. Pusch being absent and Messrs. Bartleson, Gray and Sanders being excused. Those voting aye were: Adams, Brown, Doan, Etz, Evans, Gonzales, Hale. linus, Moore, Pace, Parr. Stevens, Will Hams and Ashurst. Those voting nay were: Arthur, Benhanl, Donau, Peter son, SCctt and Woods.
 The passage of the bill is of interest, because, by the terms of the rumored contract, the death of four other i'm portant measures is new assared-two in the house and two in the council The four measures are now in the council, being council bill II, fixing maximum freight rates; council bill 27, establishing Scent passenger fare; house bill 54, giving extraordi- nary powers to boards of supervisors, for the primary purpose of driving the sheep men off the face of the earth, and house bill 35-woman's rights. The consideration awarded all of these bills has evidenced juggling. The passage i'll the house of house bill 54, which gives county boards of super visors pclwers not ptcssessed by any legislature in the land, cannot be re- garded as anything but club. With such law in force, the czar would trade jobs with an Arizona board of supervisors.
 The railroad interests are not liable tc permit the passage of the freight and passenger rates bills. and their consideration in the council has q peculiar odor of insincerity. The freight bill, as amended and Gecom.- r1ende1 if,1 mass includes in the fresh fruit schedule pumpkins and dried prunes, these amendments being of- fered by NJ. Finley and MT Wright. and accepted without protest by Nr. Goldberg, the author of the bill.
 The last time the passenger rate bill made its appearance it was amended, on moticn of Mir. Goldberg, to read cents per mile, and MT. Murphy. tho author of the bill, made no protest The juggling with wCman's rights in the senate has been apparent. It comes up again next Tuesday, for the third time since it reached the final pass age point, but there is no more reason why it should pass than has existed.
 If the goods are delivered according to the contract now existing the super visors' bill and woman's rights will die ill the council and the two railroad bills in the house, even of they get so far on their journey.
 Speaker AshuTst is either losing his kearing or assuming extraordinary powers in engineering the house. MT. Donau moved yesterday morning that