Arizona citizen., 1874-02-07
ARIZONA IN WASHINGTON.
What Delegate Mccormick HI s Done Since the Opening of The Present Congress.

cenOeT l, lOio. DeIoIo Oliio SouAu po introduced, speaker had to be elected and the committees all appointed. It usually requires a week to accomplish these points. On the Sth, Delegate Me Cormick reintroduced his bill to quiet title to lands in Tucson. It will be re- membered that this bill passed the House of the last Congress but like hundreds of others-especially in a short session-was not reached in the Senate, and therefore had to be treated as 8 new bill, and it will be seen that Mccormick made no delay m presenting it SO that it will very likely soon become law. It was at once read twice, referred to the committee on public lands and ordered printed.
 On the 9th, all the Territorial Delegates met in Washington, organized for busi- ne;s and reelected Mccormick chairman thus testitying to his fitness after an ex perience in that capacity during the forty second Congress.
 Immediately after the resembling of Congress after the holidays, he presented to the Post Office department the neces sity for mail from Delano on the South ern Pacific railWa to Mohave in Arizona, and doubtless has ere this introduced a bill in Congress to establish the route.
 January 5, he presented the memorial of the Arizona legislature asking for a donation of land to encourage the sinking of artesian wells, and it was referred to the committee on public lands and order ed to be printed. He writes that con- siderable interest has been excited in Con- gress on the subject of irrigation and artesian wells and that he is hopeful Of securing favorable legislation during the present session.
 January l9, Delegate Mccormick intro duced the following described measures: A bill to restore portion of the military reservation at Fort Yuma, on the Cobra do River, for the benefit of the town of Yuma, which is cut off from the river by the military ferry; also, bill declaring the rights of Mexican citizens under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Cad sen purchase. The object of the bill Is to protect all persons of Mexican birth, who same under the American flag at ,he time of the treaties, in their full rights O. citi zenship; also introduced the mem orial of the Arizona legislature, asking that the school sections of public land in the Ter ritory be sold, and that the interest of the proceeds be applied at once to the support of the schools of the Territory.
 A Washington dispatch Of January 25, says Mccormick, of Arizona, would the nexC day introduce a bill providing that the act prohibiting conferring of brevet rank on officers except during the time of war and in the presence of the enemy, shall not be construed so as to prohibit the conterring of brevets for distinguish ed conduct and gallant and meritorious public service during Indian wars in the presence of hostile Indians.
 These are all valuable and are of general interest, and if their enactment can be procured, Mccormick will succeed.
 After all, but small part of Delegates work is in Congress. The Territories are governed mainly by the Interior and War departments and department of Just | ice. Not day passes but citizens and officers ask him to do business fOr Them in these departments, and situated # they are in different parts of the city, | auuch time is consumed in passing from eope to another and getting an audience with the proper officers. People unac- quainted may think hearing can be had at any and all times, but in this they are much mistaken; yet not a Senator or Representative in Congress can more read | fly succeed than Mccormick. He is well | and favorably known at all. His prompt | attention to business intrusted to him, IS remarkable. Let any one who has had | experience with Senators and Representa- tives and Delegate Mccormick, make comparison in this respect, and we are sure the latter will be pronounced second | to none and far above large majority
 fought to be said here that among all in or about Washington, connected with the management of the Indian troubles in Arizona, none have equaled Mccormick in practicable suggestions, and this fact is freely acknowledged by the leading de- pertinent officers. It is putting the fact mildly to say that not any full member of Congress has accomplished as much for his constituents as Mccormick, nor does any possess larger or more effective in