Arizona republican., 1903-05-31
TEMPE ULTIMATUM
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 invitation extended. however. to those or opposing views, but it was just as well. for those holding opposing views lad little desire to talk.
 Dwight B. Heard took the floor for a very short talk. during which he ex- plained something of the origin of the plan or petition. whichever it may be called. He said that for long time those holding views similar to his owr had felt that some definite plan of ac- ton should be submitted to the secre- tary or the interior showing their side or the controversy. as they felt that that official had received but partial information, and from preiudiced sources. and that it had not been made clear to. that official how many water users were in sympathy with their feel lhSs Tn the matter. He had therefore secured from Thomas Armstrong Jr. plan he had formulated and had plac- eu IL before the Tempe canal stock holders, whereupon Judge Wells had been summoned in consultation and the present and above printed docu- iieht was the result of that collabora- ton. He believed it to be a clear. strong and binding form of contract. lie said he knew the secretary of the interior had given his approval to what he termed the "Maxwell" plan. put that he believed that if a clear. strong showing were made before that ofhcial his ideas relative to the storage project might yet be changed. He re- pudiated the term "lzickers'' that had Dr mn fnI
 and insisted that he was as anxious for reservoir as anybody.
 II. C. Yaeger moved to adjourn and the motion was lost. whereupon the chairman announced that the Tempe canal people knew exactly where they were at and why they were there and the meeting was now open for those wlo thought differently and wanted to talk
 There was silence for some minutes so impressive one could have heard il mile, after which A B. Tomlinsor arose and suggested that as there were a number of North Siders present some of them might desire to say something There was a call for Mir. Maxwell. He was slow to respond and when he did get up he spoke for only a minute, but he made the
 SPEECH OF THE DAY. MT. Maxwell said in substance that he believed the time lad passed when il was a profitable use of time for him tC address a meeting of the stockholders of the Tempe canal. As he had been called upon. however. he would brief, give his opinion of the document that had been read to the meeting. He said that if the startling discovery were
 to be made, that the moon was a mon strOus sphere filled with an everlasting supply of water and the Tempe land owners should petition the government | for the building of pipe line from .h, moon to the head of the Tempe canal the enterprise would be as good a one from a purely legal standpoint and as ! likely to be successful, as the plan pro- 1 posed in the petition adopted by the Tempe canal stockholders but a few | moments before. He said they were pc | titioning the secretary of the inter iol
 to do something which it was under the | law an impossibility for him to do ana | that was all there was to it.
 ] There was one other speaker more Ol ! less known 10 fame. IL was J. P. Ivy ! a North Slider and one who does no ! agree with anybody except here anC | there in spots. He secured the floor tC | say that he believed the Hansbrough- | Newlands law was one of the fines | pieces of legislation that was ever en
 acted and he hoped to see the day wher | it would be carried out. He was hearti ! ly in accord with the preamble of tn l Tempe plan, but when it got down tt ! firstly, secondly, etc. he had to take an
 mother trail and travel alone. He dIC not believe the secretary or any of lii
 agents had authority under the law t'
 do anything but make surveys and fil
 reports, except that the secretary migh i decide on a reservoir site and build ; | dam, though the water users could ge
 the water only by filing on it at tn land office and paying for it direct t the government, which he insists mus deal with the individual.
 MT. Ivy had overlooked the point tha
 under the Hansbrough- Newlands lav
 the secretary of the interior is not re quired to deal with individuals or fo that matter with states, but he has tn privilege of dealing anywhere in tn whole arid west, and Arizona is onl.
 small part of it. He would not b entirely out of business if Arizona Wer 1 Ceded back to Mexico, though no doub
 his business would be greatly simpli
 fled.