The oasis., 1900-11-03
Whole No. 3S9-

mdini aiming university with an agricultural college course could have an annu4i appropriation Of many thousand dollars Yet Smith had then been in congress two or three terms and had not yet found out that. the university was entitled to that appropriation, and had been for years. Carey sh we i me tn, la1 and told me
 how to get the money. Louis Wolfey was governor of Arizona and was then in Washington. I pnsted him, he | made the necessary affidavit, and from that time to this the university of Arizona has received from the treas- ury of the United States an annual appropriation of forty thousand dole lars, which Mark Smith did not knew anything about, but which he ought. to have learned were he of any use in
 the position he so poorly filled.
 ''DJ you remember the Camon grant? Do you remember thy cold Deaths hand it lald upon N,gales? Up at Calabasas there was another grant Every inch of that valuable ar 2 was siezed with vio ent aud vicious hand. No one could hupe for title. Every dollar spent on improvements might be lost, aud people were thought foolish who took up land and improved it. Upon auother grant in this vicinity mOnu- 1 ments were moved every day. When. ever the owner went over the sur rounding country and saw parti- cularlv ti1e OUdy of ldnd not covered
 Uy tue grant, Une muuuments were luUved Ju take 1t in. Had that kind uf wurk gUne on five years that one man would nave included within the limits of his grant all the UDited oLdLes and a part of New Jersey. Laughterl It was desirable to have Luc titles LU thesc ciaIulS SetCled. The supreme court Uf the Ucited States hdu hcid that the courts had nO juris- uicLlun. Eminent lawyers drafted 8 bill creating q laud court to try these grant titles, and the bill was intrO- uuced intO congress. What did Mark | smith do aOuuJ the bill? Barnes and others telegraphed him to support the bIll. He asked tu have Arizona eiimin- aLed fiUm the bill, aud by courtesy the tllmlnaliOn Was granted, and the act becdne law WlthUut lncludi0g Arizunalu it's beneflcent provisions. hat was the first act Mark Smith ac- cunpll>hed in his long aud unevent- fui career ln congress. In the next dtinucratic convention he was taken tU task for what lie had done, and to secure d fenOmluaLiun he promised to have ArlZona put back into the land court bl. But after he was reelected he violated his pledge, and other con gfes>men were induced to introduce an amendment, he was turned down and your ldud grants were settl d.
 At the time of the admission of
 U ta we had a committee at Wash iugton working tU secure statehood
 for Arizona. constitutional con- vention had been held here and con- sLitution adopted. l had opposed adoption of the constitution because the instrument contained many giar- ms defects. Mark smith had a bill before cnngre>S admittibg Ari- zona under that constitution.
 The senate committee on territr- ries told our committee working for statehood to get Mark to agree to an enaOlng act and new cousJitu- ional convention and they would ad- init A rizona along with Utah. Mark
 would not consent. He said Arizona must come in under the constitution adopted or not at all That is what our statehood committee reported when it retu ned from Washington So Utah was admitted and Arizona was not. SmitE had the greatly de- sired issue in his hands and could have at that time made ArIzona a state, and set her forward ten years in her caraor Inf ad yunoanppf a nd trocparitv