Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-06

ert land entries: reported bill grant ing chief justice of territorial courts to appoint commissioners to take proofs in lands cases, thus preventing long journeys to land offices; reported bill for the relief of settlers on un- surveyed lands; passed bill for the admission of Arizona as a state; ad- dressed the house, as shown by the congressional index on the following subjects:
 The Agriculture Bill: Admission of Arizona; Arizona Claims; Arizona Funding Act; Arizona Legislature; Arizona Surveyor Generals Office; Army Appropriation Bill; Coconino County Bonds: Coconino County Building; Indian Appropriation Bill; Cases; Silver Bullion Coinage; Admis- sion of New Mexico: Proof in Land Cases; Silver Bullion Coinage; Admis- sion of Utah, and other incidental subjects.
 Fifty-fifth Congress.
 (Reed Speaker.)
 Established capitol at Phoenix; in troduced bill to admit Arizona; passed bill permitting Tucson to issue bonds for certain Improvements; passed right of way bill for the Grand Canyon railroad; aided in for mer congress in passing Indian Depre- dations Claims Bill and offered and pressed amendment in this congress so as to include Apache Geronimo depredations. The report written by him on the amendment of the Indian Depreciation claims consisted of over 150 pages and is a full expose of the whole question of the Indians rela- tion to the government-the govern ment responsibility as shown by the treaties, customs, laws and decisions of the supreme court Passed bill permitting Prescott to issue bonds for water works, etc. Passed bill permitting all towns in Arizona of 1000 population to exceed the liar rison act on indebtedness for fire and health purposes and introduced many other bills of local importance as the record will show.
 He addressed the house on the fol lowing questions:
 Admission of Arizona; the Capitol Building: the Eight Hour Law CVol. 31. 55 Con. 2nd cession, page 49S4): Territorial Courts; War Rev enue Bill; Hawaiian Annexation; Ar my Reorganization, etc, etc, In addl- ton to these things he time after time, defeated the bill to legaliZe the Pima county railroad bonds, which subsequently, passed the house and senate. He defeated time after time the bill to force people grazing the public lands to pay a rent for such privileges. He defeated the land court commission bill, which would have confirmed every title of Mexican Land Grants in Arizona. He got an appropriation for investigating Reavis Land Grand fraud through which it was defeated. He got the first ap- propriation for a specific expenditure on any irrigation scheme, to-wit: s15,- 900 for preliminary survey of the Gila river at the Buttes above Florence and subsequently got additional money for further examination at San Carlos for the same purpose. He got an ap- propriation of s10,000 to build the levee at Yuma to protect the town from floods and forced the same on the River and Harbor Bill when every member, of the committee opposed it on the floor of the house.
 He obtained large sums for various persons who were injured by Indian depredations; in one case alone sAo,VUO was pdlC tHe ClalmantS, ana Mir. Smith returned in this and d. vers other eases the checks which his grateful constituents had sent him.
 He has passed numbers of pension claims for old soldiers who will not forget his good work in every case submitted to him
 He forced the A. T. & S. F. to pay s175 mile taxes. which sum about f0 All, SI territory the sum of over $S5,000 an- nually. The board of supervisors wired and wrote him that they would be- satisfied with s125 and better with s150 per mile. He refused and forced the s175 per mile taxes to be paid be- fore he would consent to a reorganiza- ton scheme which that road then had before congress.