The border vidette., 1904-11-05
MARK a. SMITH
What lie Has Done in Coneress For
 Arizona


 other Mexican Land Grant claimants l to secure title to such grants Tine i Reavis Grant covered the VI hole Salt River Valley. The bill to esta bIish the commission was brought into the House by unanimous report in its flaw or. Saith took the floor, and in the first speech he made in Congress had Arizona stricken from the bill He afterwards obtained through the Attorney General a report to ! Congress asking an appropriation of money to investigate tns Reavis title He secured the appropriation through which experts were sent to Spain and l Mexico, and their relort and testi- mony defeated the Reavis Grant and sent Reavis to the penitentiary.
 He fixed tn. Capitol of Arizona at Phoenix by Act or Congress. and passed an Act validating the bonds, on the sale of which the morey was raised to build the capitol
 He passed the Act in Congress whereby Phoenix was enabled to pro vide water and se ersae for city and health purposes.
 He passed the Funding Act where by Maricopa and other counties could 1 bond their debts at lower rates of in- terest and get on a cash basis
 He passed the Right of way Bill for [ the North and South Railroad from Ash Fork to Phoenix.
 He passed Bill after over 90 per cent of the taxpayers of Maricopa had voted i'll favor of it, permittin g the county to bond itself in aid of the construction of railroad in the coun- ty. MT Smith was never in favor of the Bill, but passed it when all the taxpayers, by vote, requested it's pas sage. President Harrison vetoed the i bill
 All the foregoing was done for Maricopa County. and there IS not one county in the Territory for which he has not obtained valuable reEedial legislation.
 He introduced one of the first Bills providing for irrigation of the public arid lands. and made on the floor oi the House speech on the Bill which attracted wide attention, as it gave a history of irrigation from earliest times, and displayed the benefits N hich would accrue from the adoption of 6 national system of irrigation in the United States.
 He ubtaine.i from the treasury tht first money ever applied to a specific investi gation of the question of irriga ti' n which money was expended on tho Gila River, and data obtained thereby was used in every debate in Congrrs: until the final passage of the present Bill.
 He was one of the Joint Committet of the two Houses and an activ, working member-which drafted anC passed through both Houses the pres ent irrigation law, through whici twenty-five million dollars have been added to the recIam tion fund. NJ man has b-en mor. active than MT Smith in efforts to secure the passag' of the present law
 Among many others he passed tn following Bills:
 R.Aucing the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation and thu. secured title to mines and homes oi the people then living in the town O NcMill-n in Graham County.
 \ Bill giving Arizona an additiona Justice of the Supreme Court in Ari- zona
 Reported favorably a Bill forfeitin: the Algodoines Land Grant below Yuma and obtained evidence or which that grant Was finally declares void.
 He passed the bill permitting stock men to return their stray cattle frou Mexico without paying duty on same
 He secured to settlers on Fort Low ell Reservation title to their homes
 He passed the hIl requiring tn ; Government to try reservation In,