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from that section protesting that that
jointure was an outrage. He said that
the uniting of the peoples of Arizona and
New Mexico would be like the meeting of
waters in a river, channel. Fer, a time
there would be failure to mingle, but in a
short time the two parts could not be distn-
gushed, the volume would be a harmonious
whole. and the people would be grateful
for the action of Congress
The most interesting speech of the day
Tor personal reasons was that of Mark
Smith, delegate from Arizona, whose efforts
in behalf of statehood for his people have
made him national figure. He said he
did not regret the fact that but ten minutes
We're allotted to him, because of the farcical
exhibition that was being made to the coun-
try in the consideration Of this bill
Continuing, Mr.. Smith said, peaknp
with much emotion:
The President of the United States, without
giving any reasons whatever therefor his
mere lpS" dIXit says that there has been too
much time lost and that these two Territories
may be put together. and that it ought to be
dOne-no reason whatever. and on this floor
ard in committee, with all the ingenuity of
the able drbatcrs which they have brought
to the front. there has not been one single
man who has given n reason why IL should
b. done, and whatever reason they have has
not been disclosed for shame of bringing it
10 the light. Al the time of the erection of
Arizona into n Territory it was the specific
promtS" Of the Congress of the United States
that these people should remain there until
they applied for and were admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original
stat =, and in that particular a difference
was made between Arizona and any other
state Ia the Union. except the State OF Wash
iugton.
We went into that Territory under that
promise; into that dcsolatc waste the Ameri-
can pioneer went The Apache, the all
pnrvadng sCourgc of that country. the enemy
of all Americans. the Ishmaelite of the world
was there. He had complete sway and domi-
ration A few white men first settled in
Tucson, aud from then on the pioneers of
Arizona In that desolate waste established
their homes under pains borne with greater
tortitude. under dangers faced with less
llcktriug than was ever done by any band of
patriots that ever walked forth in this world
from the dawn of time lAprlausel And
.hcr" they beran the development OF these
nGGN' ACcnt Resources which you are now
attempting to stop. which this bill will handi-
cap for fifty years.
A gentleman spoke of Senators from other
States. ask him what would he the con-
diion of the Republican party to-day IL IL
was rot for the sage brush" Senators of
which he spoke with such contempt The
sage brush Senators have saved your party
time ard again. and yet you are deturbed
with fear that Arizona. with a single Demo-
cratic representative on this floor, might
send n Democratic Senator. IL the great
Republican party afraid to trust the people
of the United States? What are they afraid
of? Is it want of patriotism? The first
blood shed on the battlefield OF Cuba, from
which the present President of the United
States gainel much OF his prestige. was by
Bucky ONcil. Would to God he was here
to-day to add his protest against the action
of his then Colonel. Would he were here to
beg that that same Colonel whom he followed
to his bloody death would just for one minute
pass this bitter cup from the lips of his people
lApplausel.
Mr. Towne Dem, n, " made his first
speech in that ca pacity. He ca me into the
House from Minnesota in the Eirt rtyfo,,r,b
Congress as a Republican, left that party and
served in the Senate as Il Democrat FROM
December 8, 1900, to January 2s, 1851, as the