The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-01

rhe interior and through the re- clamation service. 1 want to say that 1t Is up to you. l want to
 say that, as far as the engineers
 are concerned, we can be ready
 in thirty days; the thing that is
 necessary, the thing that you
 have to do, is to enter into such
 contracts as will be satisfactory
 to the secretary. Will you do it? Applause and cries of "Yes!." "Yes.." from all parts of the
 house.
 In introducing Mr. Fowler
 President Winsor paid a deserv
 ed tribute to both MT. Fowler
 and Judge Kibbey for the aid in furthering the Yuma project.
 Mir. Fowler said in part: If my
 friend, Lippincott, had been a
 little more specific would not
 be so much embarrassed. He said that he hesitated to speak
 after so distinguished a man as
 the chief of the reclamation ser
 vice and to be followed by such
 an eloquent orator as Mir. Smythe, and so of course that relieves
 me very much: 1 am not expect ed to make much of a speech.
 Laughter.) He said he would
 be followed by the eloquent MT. Smythe: can't do much: 1 can only go as far as l can afford to, and that reminds me of a little story of a friend of mine who lost everything he had in the Boston fire some thirty years ago. The necessitated economy thus en- forced gave rise to the expres- sion, "This is as much as we can afford at the present time;;" it was repeated so often that even the youngest of the impoverished household was familiar with the expression and It's meaning. One day little baby came into the family. The little five-yearold daughter, after looking the new arrival over carefully, said to her mother: "It'S awful little, ain't it, mamma? but 1 suppose it's as large as we can afford at the pres ent time" So there won't any of you expect much from me.
 MT. Fowler continued for some minutes in a humorous vein, causing much merrimcnt with a fund of good stories. He told of the determination and patience required to settle these irriga- tion matters and paving the way for actual construction. He then continued:
 As l left the White House last March d member of the commit tee on irrigation said to me: 'I wonder if your people realize what this all means: I wonder if they realize that you are mak ing great history for Arid Amer ica? Mir. Fowler, if you make d success down there it will help 1 the national irrigation act. Now, we have done our work over there, but we must i say that you have & still greater project than we have in all it's Yours is d part of the greatest project in the whole United States. MT. Fowler closed | by counseling justice, patience and charity in the settlement of all questions.
 Mr. Smythe was the next speaker. He said, in part:
 1 am mighty happy tonight; this is one of the happiest times of my life. For a good many years 1 have been looking up sound arguments in favor of na- tional irrigation, and tonight, in this magnificent outpouring of the people of Yuma, l find the strongest argument for the great est constructive movement of modern times. 1 will tell you the secret of this magnificent upon such short notice. A vast corporation Is about to lay its hand on our Colorado river. You who have gathered here tonight are the stockholders n that corporation, and the name Of it is The United States Df America. Mir. Fowler brought