Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-18
IRRIGATION,
 B. A. FOWLER AND HON. M. 4. SMITH.

B. A. FOWLER AND
 HON. M. 4. SMITH.
 Readers of the Review will remem- Der that during the late visit of our Republican friend B. A. Fowler there was much said about irrigation. The speaker waxed eloquent as he pictur- ed the water gushing forth from the mountain sides (to be put here by Fowler) and the desert blooming as the rose. Up in Prescott the other night the Hon. NJ A. Smith took Oc- ccasion to submit few brief and pertinent remarks anent the question of irrigation and said in part:
 The first appropriation ever made for water that 1 know of was made by me. I put it on an Indian appro- priation bill as an amendment was making these speeches ten or fif- teen years agO-ten years, anyway before my friend ever saw an irriga- ton ditch, and further than that when the House and Senate selected a com mittee to get together to see if we could not formulate bill. was se- lected one of the members. After thirty days and nights of work. we brought forth the bill which passed both houses without amendment. And if the gentleman had disposed of six millions. which I will show you the fallacy of in a minute, I shoud have partial credit for being one of a few to bring into the treasury of the United States some twenty-five mil lion dollars. Now, we could not have brought six million dollars. nor six dollars, to Arizona It is the easiest thing in the world when you have bad case to crash like thunder. They may say what they want but must make no assault on my personal character.
 "It is a misfortune that this thing ever shoGld have been brought into politics or mentioned. Congress tried hard to keep it out of politics. We put 1t where poodle could not touch it. And let me say here, before I for get it, that long before S1 was ap- propriated I was told by the chief of the hydrographic department that T the bill was passed. Arizona would be one of the largest benefciaries in it This money is put in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior for distribu- ton. 1t is 10 be paid out or appropriate cd only on report, regardless of local ity. the only thing guiding the distzi button being that the money is 70 be distributed where the least money will do the greatest good. These places should be selected without the interference or outside influence oi anybody. went to the Secretary oi the Inter.or myself on the passage o the bnl and said there is a large find accumulated, and am very fear ful that this great place might b' neglected. and the Secreatry said tna not one dollar of that money would D' changed from the lines of this repor if every man in Congress o- Senat' asked it. No matter il the peopi' themselves protest, it, is he, and no them. who is making lthe distribution wbaa would he think if he heard thes' peofie say this? It is disgrace to tn Secretary of the In,e-'or. He di' if beoause the report issued passed il Arizona; only two orEs-s l'asSe1 Il America. It will rome again Wheth an dead or Fowler :s alive. C. vio versa It Is being cemcas'rased ifa the irieaton funds aresbssn;s distri6u' es uifh the object of securing tn greatest good to the sraaoeSt nErioe of people in this countrz. May 'h day be long from here wher ~r an twenty men should ha+s influence t take s1 from the treaury The! make fruitful promises of Eo'ng t give you something more. ard 'hs