Arizona republican., 1899-06-07
GRO WNED WITH SUCCESS
Governor Murphy EIafed Over inc
 Rk suit Achieved at Wichita.

Governor Murphy, who returned on Monday night from the trans-Missis- cippi congress at Wichita, was at his desk early yesterday morning busy with the mass of correspondence which had accumulated in the week Of ais absence. In the middle of the af- 5ernoon, accompanied by Messrs. Henry A.. Fry. Charles E. Co,lCney, E. J. Houston and Ernest L. Tustin, g party of Philadelphia capitalists who lad arrived the night before, he drove put to the Agua Fria. The party viii return today and the governor will leave tonight for Prescott. where he will address the graduating class Of he high school tomorrow night.
 The governor was eiated at his suc- cess in having secured the adoption oy the Mississippi congress of resolution recommending the cessiun # the arid lands, of which he was the earliest and most ardent advocate. It was done" said he, after lard fight which, however, was not at tended or followed by ill feeling In he end the resolutions were so nearly unanimous they will eventually procure the cession Of the arid lands, accompanied, pos sibly by federal aid for the building 1f reservoirs. There was very little difference of opinion in tie congress tegarding the needs of the wesG, hough there were differences as to the means of attaining the things we leed."
 The chief opposition to the arid lands resolution came from represent n i1.y4;o gress, who favored a resolution rec DmmeEding a federal appropriation for the building of reservoirs. The | views Of the irrigaucnists were incOr- | oorated in the resolution, but were | given secondary place..
 The resolutions adopted first en- | lOrsed those of the last meeting Of i he national irrigation congress. The i 'lause relating t. the cession Of the | 4rid lands is as follows:
 We favor the ceSSiOn of the public | andS of the nation to the respective ;tates and territories only upon condi- ions so strict that they will insure he settlement of such lands by actual ;ettlers in small tracts and absolutely prevent their monopoly in large bod es under private ownership.
 We urge upon the American people
  ;ial, political and phiianthrOpic fea-
 Tes of the. great irrigation move nent, it's ultimate aim being that we nay become a nation of great cities.
 We favCT the leasing of the public grazing lands at a nominal rental m lmlteG areas to settlers farming ad- | acent lands, the revenues from rent Us to go to the states and territories E or irrigation development Leases 0 be subject to right of reclamation y irrigation and Of settlement on ands actually cultivated title of graz ng land to remain in federal govern nent until actual settlement, the leaS- ng of said lands to be under the con- rel of the states and territories where and the revenues arising herefrom to bd expended by said tates or territories, counties in which aid lands are located to have a just proportion of the revenues"
 Another clause is as follows: The value of the irrigated farm and he security Of the homes thereby ere ted are alike dependent upon sufi- tent public control of the water sup ly and the prevention Cf water be- :. omicg speculative commodity We .elieVe that the water of all streams hOuld forever remain public property nd that the right to it's use should nhere, net in the individual or the itch, but in the land reclaimed" The resolution also reaffirms the i'm and necessity of forest pres rvati6n. ! Governor Murphy advertised the roducts of the Salt River valley by