Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-23

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 plause. ''The reprint I am about
 to read is from stenograpaic report
 of February 18th, 1906. of an inter
 view with Robert Morrison"
 He then proceeded to read a glow
 ing tribute to Arizona's delegate by
 Morrison, in which he said that had it not been for the gallant fight of
 Smith, Arizona would nave been link
 ed with New Mexico, and her individ-
 uality as a state or territory wiped of the map. T can get half a dozen
 good Democrats to swear to the ac-
 curacy of this" proceeded the speak
 CT. T can get 100 Republicans to swear. to it.
 After the prolonged appause which
 followed this remark had subsided. he
 caused it to break out anew when he
 added: If 1t becomes necessary
 can force Morrison himself to make
 affidavit to the facts of this statement
 have read you"
 Mir. Cox then read a letter from
 Rev. Harvey Shields, formerly minis
 ter for the Episcopal church of this city, who was in Washington as the representative of the Bisbee Chamber
 of Commerce at the time the joint statehood bill was up for discussion, in wnich the minister praised Mark
 Smith for the good work he had done in leading the attack on the measure, and in which he spoke of the popular ity and wide acquaintance of the Ari- zona statesman. He also read long extracts from the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun, both Republi- can papers, in which they paid un- stinted tribute to Mark Smith for his fight on joint statehood. Among ether things, these papers told how a man to gain, recognition among the galaxy of brains at the national capi- tai must possess character and ability far above the ordinary, and how much more true this was in the case of representative of territory.
 These papers told aow Mark Smith was the only one Of the territorial rep resentatives who had arisen above this handicap, and had been the only of congress who had ever forced Speaker Canonn to take the floor in his own defense. He quoted a Republican senator who had said that not in fifteen years had such speech as Mark Smith had delivered at the time of the joint statehood bill, been made in the halls of congress. One of the papers mentioned, the New York Times, stated that when Arizona should have been admitted to the union, s1e would be represented in by a senator, Mark Smith, who was the superior of either of the N~ fn none in that body.
 In rapid succession the speaker named a number of bils introduced and passed by Mark Smith whose ben eft to the people of Arizona only the coming years can tell. He spoke of the bill to develop the water resourc- ss of the territory introduced many years ago by Smith, and finally pass ed. Of his successful effort to re move the tax on cattle crossing the line: of his success in having Indian trials in the United States courts, thus saving the territory thousands ot dollars eaca year; of the fact that Arizona's delegate to congress had in tnoduced more bills in an effort to ben eft his constituents than any repre- sentative of any state in the west. As a matter of fact" concluded the speaker, the people of: Arizona do not know how well they have been He then added many other things which Mark Smith had until even. the friends of the statesman were surprised at the record. and delighted to learn that they had been served even better than they knew. Ashurst. who followed, also added many other details of Smiths records, referring to the vol ume and page of the records in which they were to be found. -saH
 In concluding, Cox stated that while ne was friend and admirer of Ralph Cameron, he knew that he was