Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-04
What Mark Smith Has
 Done In Congress

colt to issue bonds for water works. etc. Passed bill permitting all towns in Arizona of 1000 population to ex- ceed the Harrison act on indebtedness for fire and health purposes and intro
 duced many other bills of local i'm
 portance as the records vii show.
 He addressed the house on the fol
 lowing questions:
 Admission of Arizona. the capitol building, the eigh.nour law (Vol. 31, 1 55 Con. 2nd Session, page 49S4;) ter ritorial. courts. war revenue bill, Ha-
 waiian annexation, army reorganiza- | tion. etc, etc. In addition 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 rent for such privileges. He defeated the laRd court commission
 bill, which would have confirmed ev- cry title of Mexican land grants in
 Arizona. He got an appropriation for investigation Reavis land grant fraud through which it was defeated. He
 got the first appropriation for spe- cific expenditure on any irrigation sur vey of the Gila river at the Buttes
 above Florence and subsequently got
 additional money for further examina- | tion ct San Carlos for the same pur- pose. He got an appropriation of S10,-
 0oO to bSjld the levee at Yuma to pro tect the town from floods and forced the same on the rivers and harbors | h xut nf hn
 mittee 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 s25,- coo was paid the claimants, and Mir. Smith returned in this and divers oth-
 CT cases the checks which his grare
 ful 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.
 e forced the A. T. & s. F. to pay | s175 per mile taxes. which sum about secures tc Arizona counties and to the .errftory the sum of over $S5,090 an | nuaily. The board of supervisors 1 wired and wrote him tha. they would be satisfied with s125 and better with s150 per mae. He refused and forced the S175 per mile taxes to be paid be- fore he would consent to eorsani- | sation scheme which that road then had before congress.
 But it was left to the last congress
 to impose the most difficult of all la | bors upon Mir Smith. President
 Roosevelt issued his famous joint statehood manifesto to congress and backed up by a strong majority of republicans in both houses, the bill | for the union of Arizona and New
 Mexico was introduced and battle
 royal was then and there inaugurated. It was in this great contest that Mark Smith distinguished himself. It was here that he demonstrated his title 1, to be AriZona's champion. It was in I this contest that Mark Smith showed his marvellous ability as leader and orator. Fitted against Mir. Smith was ! the aggressive President Roosevelt with his marvellous power of patro- mage, Speaker Cannon with the slave \ drivers whip swinging over the re- publican members of both houses of congress. With Beveridge. Nelson, | Aldridge and all the great republi- can leaders in the senate on the fir
 ling line battling with all the power and force of their great party and
 the President of the United States be- hind them, while Arizona alone in
 its mighty power of right, with her I never f4ltering, never failing dele gate standing amid hostile and mad dening congress, battling for his peo- pie and his country stood Marcus A. Smith, the man that never went down
 in defeat, either in or out of congress.
 and the end came with a solid dem ocratic vote in both houses and the question submitted to her people to l! determine for themselves whether
 they wanted to unite with New Meyi-
 co or not. At times the danger line
 in this great battle was nearly cross
 led, but Mark Smith. true to his con stituents, true to himself and the his tory of Arizona, succeeded at last in
 bringing order out of chaos. and to-
 day the people of this territory owe
 1t to Mark Smith that the people are
 free from the New Mexico yoke. Gen
 tlemen. voters of Arizona, you owe it
 to yourselves and your children to
 cast your votes for a man that has saved you from this ruinous union.
 vote for the man that never betrayed
 a trust nor deserted a friend. Such a
 man is Mark Smith, Arizona's peer less delegate in congress.
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