The border vidette., 1908-10-03

shortened the time of legal procedure
 He introduced and passed bill to forfeit the Algondis land grant in Yuma. had the grant declared fraudu- lent and the land opened up to public settlement.
 He passed a measure permitting estry cattle to be returned from Mex ico to the United States without pay men of duty, thus saving the cattle men in the territory hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 He secured by act of Congress title to the lands occupied by the set tiers iu the Fort Lowe reservation near Tucson
 He introduced bill No. 7O79 and obtained relief for the settlers on for feited land grants who had paid, double the minimum price for the land
 He passed provision requiring the government to repay to the various counties of Arizona all moneys paid out in Indian cases and induced the government to assume and pay all costs to the territory and counties for the maintenance of Indian prisoners, thus saving large su,ns to the taxpay- CTS.
 He passed a bill permitting the counties of Arizona to fund their in debtedness and get on a cash basis.
 He has introduced bill after bill for the granting of single statehood in Arizona, which have only been beaten through Republican opposition to single statehood-an opposition now withdrawn according to the pledges of the Republican national platform of this year.
 He caused to be passed the Arizona Founding Act decreasing interest on debts nearly one half.
 He secured the removal of the Pa pagoes on the Gila to the reservation near Tucson.
 He passed bill extending time for proving up on desert land entries.
 He passed bill permitting Tucson to issue bonds for improvements.
 He passed bill permitting all towns Tn Arizona of 1000 population to ex- ceed the Harrison act on inde btedness for fire and health purposes.
 He time after time defeated the bill to legalize the Pima county railroad bonds, which subsequently,, while Republican Delegate represented Ari- zona in Congress. was passed and ia now stInging our taxpayers. Had Mir. Smith represented Arizona in Con- gress at t!:e time this bill was passed it would never have been passed, and Pima, and Santa Cruz counties would have been saved thousands. It Is just such things as this which make the in- experienced and untride Delegate an element on which our taxpayers cannot place reliance: If Pima county hopes in the near future to cast from it's shoulders this weight of debt, incurred by the election of an untried man it must re elect Mark Smith to Congress.
 Mark Smith got the first sppropria- tion for a spacific expenditure on any irrigation scheme. to wit $l5 GOO for a preliminary survey of the Gila river at Buttes, above Florence, and sub sequently got additional money for further examinations at San Carlos for the same purpose.
 He got an appropriation of SlO. 900 to build a levee at Yuma to protecu the town from floods.
 He forced the A. I. & s. F. to pay Si75 a mile taxes which secures to Arizona counties and to the territory $S5, 900 annually. The board of su- pervisors wrote him that 1t would be satisfied with S125 and better Si5O per mile He refused and forced the S175 per mile taxes to be paid before he would consent to reorganization scheme which the railroad then had before Congress.
 He introduced and passed the Tue son water bonds bill, and this work was done so promptly chat already our water Improvements are completed.
 What Mark Smith has done for