Arizona republican., 1900-12-28
A DISCOVERED PULL
By Which Arizona May Effect
 a Landing
Mr. B. A. Fowler Unearths Relatives and Old Friends in the House An Instance Showing the Need of a Still Greater Pull.

| Washington, Dec. 2I.-lSpeclal:J The energy displayed here in the interest of | the valley by MT. B. A. Fowler ought ! to be aD2reciat-5 l.. all who desire to see Phoenix bec'-ho N great city. He accomplished more in two or three days than some men could in an entire ses-
 sion. As I have often pointed out to
 readers of the Republican, this is a place where a 'pull'' exerts a wonder | ful influence MT. Fowler had not been l here many hours before he discovered | that he had a cousin in the lower house 1 in the person of MT. Boutell of Illinois | an influential member. Mir. Boutell
 was enlisted in the cause of Arizona in short order. For 20 years MT. Fowler
 was neighbor to Representative Me ] Call of Massachusetts who is member of the committee on ways 1 and means Mir Mccall was glad | to see him and promised to do all that l he could to secure the passage of the proposed bill to enable Maricopa county to bond itself for $2,000,000 for water 1 storage purposes. Mir. Knox of Mas sachusetts, chairman of the house committee on territories. another friend l expressed his willingness to work for | the bill and also to advance the state | hood movement. In Senator Lodge of l Massachusetts MT. Fowler encountered | another friend of long standing who l will put his shoulder to the wheel. ] With all these active workers on his | side it will be seen that MT. Fowler en- 1 joys a great advantage. He will return | to Arizona with the consciousness of | having put in some strong licks for his 1 adopted home. He said to me today that he believed there would be no | difficulty in securing the passage of the l enabling act during the short session. | It is. of course desirable that congress ] shall take action on this matter before | the adjournment of the Arizona legis- ] lature. which will be asked to pass a l similar bill Delegate Wilson has aided | Mir Fowler in every way possible and l will keep close watch of the enabling bill as soon as it is introduced. With
 the passage of this bill and proper ac- ton by the legislature, the people of | the valley will be in a position to do something good for themselves. The geological survey is very much inter- ested in the question of the borings for ! bedrock that are being made on the | sites of the proposed reservoirs and will
 prosecute the work. Altogether the
 outlook for water storage for the val l ley is very bright-from the Washing | ton view point at leasr
 ARIZONA'S HANDICAP.
 The disadvantage under which Ari- zona labors in being a territory rather than a state was freshly illustrated to- | day in a conversation l had with Rep | resentative Shafroth of Colorado re- garding the irrigation of the arid west.
 Mir Shafroth at the opening of this l session introduced a bill which directs | the Geological Survey to make accura te l surveys of at least four practical reser- voir sites and of the ditches leading to | the reservoirs and to the public lands | to be irrigated therefTOm in each of the arid states of the United States, and | to estimate the cost of the construction | of the same as well as the quantity of
 water which can be stored in each. l The director of the survey is to report ! to the secretary of the interior regard l ing the cost of construction of each | reservoir the quantity of the land capable of being reclaimed under each
 reservoir. and other necessary facts relative to the practicability of the en- 1 terprise.
 | Now comes the bitter pill which Al l zona must swallow. Section , of tne bill says: The following states shall be considered as arid-land states within the meaning of this act, to-wit: California Oregon, Washington, Idaho, | Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, | Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South l Dakota and North Dakota.
 l Not a word about Arizona, which has ,.i T west, Arizona, unfortunately, is sim ply a territory. The sum of $13,G0O,O0O ] is appropriated under this bill for car | rying its provisions into effect, a mill lion each for the states mentioned. Arizona hasn't vote in the congress and will not be considered in connec- l tion with this measure. There is not
 much chance for the bill in this session but the proposition will be pushed in the next congress and Shafroth be- lieves that it will succeed. A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE. There is very little interest exhibfted here in the possible action of Great Britain in connection with the Ameri- canized Hay-Pauncefote treaty. The opinion is general that the sunate took the proper course. The amendments make it impossible for foreign nations to have anything to say regarding the construction or management of the Nicaragua canal, a very excellent con dition of affairs when the provisions of the Monroe doctrine, and with it in force as originally drawn we would have found our troubles with nations like Germany, which long have cast
 covetous eyes upon South and Central American lands, just beginning. The Clayton Bulwer treaty has been re- peatedly ignored by Great Britain. | and now We have served notice that
 it must no longer be considered as in effect.
 There is a shadow of doubt con- corning the passage of the canal bill. Of course there are votes enough in
 lyihe senate to pass it, but the question | of senatorial courtesy" which stood in the way of many measures may | rear itself again in connection with