Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-10-12

tainty at that time that the president
of the council, Mr.. Ives, had received
from Mark Smith the ''confdential"
wire so often referred to. On March
I'd, at page 352 of the Journal of the
Twenty-Second Legislative Assem-
bly,, the house transacted the follow
ing important business:
Under suspension of the rules, Mr.. Rowe
presented the following resolution:
Whereas @. Q. R. No. Ii, which passed
the council February 9th, Iecites that Ari-
IONA under certain conditions would be will
ing to enter statehood jointly with New
Mexico, therefore be it resolved
'1st. That this house repudiates the SEN
timent embraced in said resolution and it
resents the action of whoever was response
BILE for the telegram to our delegate which
conveyed the impression that said resolution
was the joint action of both houses.
sd. In behalf of the band of pioneers
who have wrung from the savage this fair
land of Arizona, in behalf of the citizens of
Arizona, who have fought its battles and de-
veloped those conditions under which we
now happily exist, this house resents the
imputation that our members or the people
of this territory will ever submit to the
proposition that Arizona will consent to any
scheme by which it will lose its identity and
name and its grand history that has been
marked by the expenditure of blood, treas
ure and privation.
Therefore, this house repudiates so far
as it concerns itself any use of the name of
this house in the telegram which gave pub
licity to the idea that the sentiment en-
braced in said resolution was the joint ac-
ton of the Twenty-Second Legislative As
sembly.
sgd. Therefore, this house instructs chief
clerk to transmit to Hon. Marcus A. Smith
by telegram the sense of this resolution
which is that Arizona will always fight
against any policy even by implication
through which she may lose her name, iden-
tity and history.
-'On motion, resolution presented by Mr..
Rowe was adopted by the unanimous vote of
the house.
On motion, the house refused to concur
in Council Concurrent Resolution No. 13 by
the following vote: Ayes, "a; Nays, o."
What is this we read? "This house
repudiates the sentiment embraced in
said resolution and it resents the &C
ton Of whoever was responsible for
the telegram to our delegate which
conveyed the impression that said
resolution was the joint action of
both houses" And so there was
democratic misrepresentation, as to
the resolution having passed both
houses OF the Legislature, when Mark
was advised by wire that the demo
Gratis were willing to take joint state
hood.
And again therefore the house re-
pudiates, etc." and continuing, the
house directed that a telegram be
sent to Delegate Smith telling him
that" Arizona will always fight against
any policy even by implication
through which she may lose her
name, identity and history"
Remember please that all the
above is democratic action, and sure
ly democrats can not repudiate it,
can not deny it. There is no am
biguity about the language of the
house. 1t disavowed even the senti-
ment expressed in the council resolu-
ton. Smith has never denied that
he sent the telegram to Ives, but ne
heard a loud protest from the house
that the council resolution was a
fraud.
It is not the intention of republi-
cans to assert that Smith favors joint
statehood as regular diet, but when
the howl goes forth in the campaign
that he is the only Simon pure sepa-
rate statehood man, it is well to quote !
the above legislative action. 1t /
shows that at one time when Smith /
was being pushed, he got slightly /
''locoed," as our Spanish friends !
would say, and he did ask for demo /
cratic legislative endorsement in ia
vor of joint statehood by congress
sional action. If sent back to con-
gress, is it not within the range of |
possibilities that he might again get |
LIGHT headed and fnrsa ka Sanara To |