Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-27

WASHlNGlON,J June Zo.-N Den or last Thursday Mark Smith stung Speaker Cannon into taking the floor in his own defense, he accomplished something that no Representative has ever been able to do.
 Mark Smith is not a Representa- tive; he is a voteless delegate, ad' mitted to the floor in handicuffs. If Arizona ever becomes state in his life time, he will be a Senator. At present he couples the most insig nificant place allotted to anybody in the two branches of Congress- For a delegate to make himself heard, to achieve a high and respected position among his more fortunate colleagues is well nigh impossible.
 Mark Smith, however. has accom-. plished it by sheer force of character and ability, and if his territory ever becomes a state she win enter the na tional councils with one Senator the position of whom is already made al the capitol, and her voice will out weigh that of some eastern states New York, for instance.
 When Cannon took the floor he was wild with rage, and his face was red to the top of his bald head. He had intended to fay Smith, but as he be gan speaking he got cooler, and reali -zed the fatal mistake he would make in doing so, and his speech tapered of into a simple defense of himlS if
 Smith had got under his skin'' as no previous critic had ever done. The savage personal attack of Shackleford had moved him not in the least. John Sharp Williams criticisms had an. nOyed him, but had not provoked him into taking the floor. The reason for Smiths success was the extraordinary artistic nature of the trimming which the delegate gave. It is in this line of attack that Smith eXcelS, and there is no one in Congress who can match him in it.
 Whereas Shackleford and Williams had attacked the speaker directly, MT. Smith never mentioned him. He did not allude to the House machine, to MT. Cannon, nor to any one else Reading through his speech no one uniformed about the progress of the statehood bill would see anything in it more than a vague criticism of per sons unknown. Yet the whole thing was a whitening denunciation of the N
 This is the sentence that lashed the speaker to ungOVernable fury and made him leave the chair:
 There is a law in Arizona that ii one legislator trades with another on legislation before that body ne .s guilty of a high misdemeanor, and Ii the governor shall attempt in that benighted land to influence legislation Inv icnc of hn irp Of veto, he goes to the penitentiary under the laws of the land"
 That was all. Not a reference tC Cannon in it. apparently so. and ht had not alluded to Cannon fin the pre- ceding part Of his speech. It was all strictly parliamentary. Yet not one of his hearers had the slightest doubt about the point. which was, that if Cannon had done in Arizona what he had done in Washington he would have gone to the peniteDtiary.
 This ability of Smiths at artistic faying has been demonstrated often enough, and was demonstrated once before at this session, when the state hood bill was jammed through the House. Tawney, of Minnesota. had been one of the leading insurgents;
  and asured the friends of Arizona of his undying friendship. The speaker applied the party lash to him, and Tawney was forced into camp. But it was not enough for the remorseless speaker that Tawney should vote in opposition to his friends; he must speak against them, too. So Tawney had to get up and deliver the best apology he could for his course, and in doing so he again repeated his pro- testatiOns of friendship for Arizona.
 Then Mark Smith obtained the floor He walked down the aisle until he could look directly in the face of the conscience-stricken Tawney, and said in a voice shaking with emotion:
 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother?' And Joab took Amasa- by the beard with the right hand to kill him.