Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-10-31
WHERE WAS OUR MARCUS.

WHERE was OUR MARCUS.
 Mark Smith is the democratic candi-
 date for reelection as delegate to con
 gross from this territory. While his
 party papers have pointed with pride"
 time and time again to his record in
 congress, and his valuable services to thIs territory, they have been able to specify
 but one single act that he has done cf any particular importance and even on that there IS division of opinion. Init
 was h,s opposition to the land courts in Arizona Mr. Smith was first reported as doing his level best to secure the provisions of that act for this territory
 when indignation meetings were held in places afected by it, and he took the other tack. The appropriations passed by the congress just adjourned has been published, from which It will be seen that delegates from other territories have succeeded in getting needed appro- priaiion for public buildings and other enterprises. while Arizona's delegate was of fishing. Below will be found some of the appropriations made for the great west, and We would like to in- quire where Marcus Aurelius Smith was while the western congressmen and territorial delegates were getting their work in. Here are few items:
 Completion and extention of the Den Yer court house and postoffice, in excess of the limit of cost as originally fixed being deficient appropriation, $6o.- ooO completion, in excess of the limit. of the cont house and postofice at Car son City, $36.ooo
 ITO aid the Industrial Christian ! Home, of Utah, $4o,ooo.
 "Construotion of bridge across the
 Wind river, on the Wind River Indian reservation. in Wyoming, $Io.ooo.
 Support of Indian school at Albu- querque, N. M, $3s,ooo; support of h. dian school at Grand Junction. $Io. 900; and Indian pupils other than children of Ute Indians may be allowed in said school, in the discretion of the secretary of the interior support of St. IgnatIus Mission school buildings for an Indian industrial school. to be located in Ormsby county. Nevada, $25,ooo. "To enable the ,ecretary of war: to con- struct wagon road from the boundary of Pike's Peak military reservation to the signal station on Plke's Peak, $Io,o 900. Improvement and enlargement of the penitentiary at Boise City Idaho. $25,ooo; construction of additional wing to the Utah penitentiary, etc.. $55,ooo; completion and repairs of Wyoming peniten,iary, $Io,ooo.
 "Continuation of Denver conrt house and postoffice building, $I4o. 900; the approaches 10 Santa Fe court house, $I2, 1000.
 Survey of confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, $3o.ooo.
 "For the purpose of inve siigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by ilri- gation, and the selection of sites for reservoirs and other necessary hydraulic works, $Ioo,ooo.
 Continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings at the Denver militia ry post, $so.ooo buildings for the caval. 1 " and artillery school at Fort Riley, $I5o ,ooo; completing the buildings at the Fort Robinson military post, $3o,- 900 completing the buildings at Fort Niobrara, $3o.ooo; protection and im- provement of the Yellowstone National park, $25.
 From the above h will be seen that Idaho, Utah and Wyoming ge, nearly $Ioo.o GOO for their penitentiaries while | Arizona does not get dollar for any thing. This territory has built her own penitentiary has built her normal school and an insane asylum and has made an for university, which IS now being built, and yet we do not get | one dollar from the national government for any public improvement. If our delegate could stand idly by and see the above appropriations made without raising his voice on behalf of the terri tory he represents, we fail to see where his brilliant record comes in It is true that MT. Smith has been prompt in an swering correspondence of citizens of this territory, that he has in number of instances secured few petty person al claims for individuals but if he has accom- plished anything of general importance % the territory or people generally, we nave failed to learn of i'. or the above the one of $Ioo, 900, for he purpose of investigating the possi- bilities of retaining arid lands by irri- ,ation was secured through the influence ,f Professor Powell, and he will oba- ply expend $5,o 900 or $Io,ooo of it in his territory, so that even the paltry um which Arizona gets indirectly is lue to the efforts of another than our delegate. |
 The claim repeatedly made that the democrats have majority in Yavapai ounty does not seem to be supported by