The border vidette., 1908-10-10
MARK SMITHS RECORD.
lie Has Always Been Equal to Every
 EmerGeucy.

| passed by Mark Saith for the benefit of Arizona and Arizona people dur ing the fifty ninth and sixtieth con- gresses is not now at hand, but they will be given before the end of the campaign, wherein republican papers and orators are trying to belittle the mplishments of the democratic candidate. says the Globe Silver Belt
 But it was not only in the present and recent congresses that Mark Smith rendered good service to the people of Arizona and made for him self an honorable record; he has always been equal to every emergency in looking to the welfare and protection of the interests of Arizona and Ari- zonans in the national law making body.
 MT. Smith was first elected to the fi:tieth congress, 1887 1888, and the January following his election Mark Smith introduced house bill 6166 to deve'op the water resources of Ari- zopa and to provide for the reclama- tion of the desert land within our borders. Our delegate>worked hard to | secure the passage of the measure. but it being one of the very first irri- gation bills, public sentiment was | against him, yet he is credited with making one of the best and most for Iorh ho thot
 was heard that session. In the same month he introduced and passed bill reducing the White Mountain Apache reservation and secured title for the settlers in the town of McOlelland, thus saving many early settlers their | homes. During the same session of congress he introduced and passed 1 bill giving Arizona an addition al just | ice of the supreme court, which all | attorneys will testify was very much | needed in the administration of just | ice in this territory. Later he intro duced bill to forfeit the Algondis | land grant in Yuma and upon the showing made by Mark Smith of this gigantic swindle this grant was declar. ed fraudulent and was opened up to public settlement. He passed meas, ure permitting estray cattle to be re- turned from Mexico to the United States without payment of duty-this bill Sc we'd hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cattlemen of Arizona. He secured by act of congress a title to the lands occupied by the settlers on the Fort Lowell reservation near Tucson.
 He introduced bill No. 7O79 and subs quently obtained relief for the settlers on forfeited land grants, who had paid double the minimum price for the land, thus saving large sums of money for the settlers. He intro duced bill for and finally had provision passed, compelling the gov ernment to try in it's own courts all Indians accused of crime, thus making | a great saving to the taxpayers of Arizona. He also passed a 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 In- dian prisoners; thus another large saving was made to the taxpayers. | He passed a bill for the relief of John
 Marion of Prescott, who by drought had defaulted 0 large sum of money on wild hay contract with the gov ernment He passed bill giving the
 right of way for the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railway across the
 Apache reservation vetoed by Presi-
 dent Cleveland on the ground that
 the bill did not provide for getting the
 consent of the Indians. MT. Smith
 prepared and introduced a new bill
 meeting this objection and passed the
 same within two weeks. He passed a
 bill giving Flagstaff the right to bond the city for water works and sewage
 purposes; passed bill permitting Ma
 ricopa county to issue bonds for the
 Phoenix, Prescott & Santa Fe rail- road to aid in constructing the road.