Arizona citizen., 1875-04-03

provisions Of advantage to thousands Ol people of Mexican birth. Also the bill
 appropriating Slj00 for the relief of c. A.
 Luke heretofore explained in THE CTrI-
 ZEN, would have passed the Senate had It been reached on the calendar. IL is to be
 borne in mind that not one bill in six in troduced in the late session became a law. By careful attention of Delegate McCOr-
 mick, the usual and necessary appropria- tionS were obtained for public surveys; for the salaries and incidental expenses Of
 the several United States officers in the Territory: for Apaches and other Indians of the Territory for the present and ensu- ing years-but not for the deficiencies for
 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874. All
 the far Western States and Territories are in the same fix in this failure. The apprO-
 priation committee, it seems, did not de-
 ny the justice of the unpaid claims for the
 year named but complained that they
 were not sufficiently explained by the h.
 terior Department, and deliberately de-
 clined to provide means for the payment
 of any, and turned the whole matter over
 to the next Congress-; and this, too, in face
 
 tives of the frontier States and Territories; and also in face of the understanding at the previous session, that all these claims should be provided for at this one. An ur- gent appeal was made to the House dur ing the debate on the deficiency bill. but
 in vain. Even the original advocates Of the peace policy (so-called) seemed quite
 indifferent to meeting the expenditures created by it. Quite d number of Arizona
 people, as well as others all over the west,
 hold just claims unprovided for, and
 many are sorely pressed in consequence. The next Congress should not hesitate to promptly provide for their relief.
 Two bills upon which he expended time and jealous effort failed to pass either
 House, though they had favorable con- sideration by the proper committees;
 but the subject matter was so completely presented that their passage by the next Congress, will probably be easily accom- plished. His bill to appropriate $40,000 for building a penitentiary in Arizona, when introduced, was referred to the ap- prOpriaton committee. After holding it some time, this committee asked that it be referred to the committee on public buildings, on the theory that by law no appropriation for a public building can be made, until the erection of such build gress. The Delegate from Dakota want ed just what Arizona's did, so they to- gether waited on the building committee every week for several weeks, and always found its members decidedly opposed to recommending the erection of any new buildings in the theE condition of the national treasury. After much and per sistent labor, they succeeded in getting a favorable report by the committee, and the only ont made by it. So on February b, our Delegate introduced bill provid- | ing for penitentiary buildings in the two Territories at a cost not exceeding S40, 900 each The chairman of the committee | positively agreed to ask prompt action on the bill, so it might pass and reach the Senate in season to pass that body, but l for some reason he was absent most of | the time until the closing days of the ses- sion when the exciting debates on the southern questions and the appropriation | bills prevented his getting the floor, and so the bil failed but for no lack of atten- tion on the part of Delegate Mccormick.
 His bill to appropriate S50,0O0 to pro- tect the military buildings at Yuma, was reported by the committee on military affairs in the House and placed upon the calendar, but like hun dreds of others was not reached for ac- ton. He then got the committee to | move the bill as an amendment to the 1 military appropriation bill, but tEe mem Der having that bill in charge, insisted that it was to provide for river improve ment and therefore a preliminary survey should be made by the engineer corps. No one else took this view-not even the | members of the committee on commerce. There was a detailed estimate of the cost | by the Quartermaster's department, and the Secretary of War addressed three sepa- rate letters to Congress urging the appro- priatiOn.
 Aside from the vast amount of business looked after by him for very many of the | people Of the Territory before the several | no1 ,;,l-1 -1c