The border vidette., 1908-10-10


 Grant Enquiry on law on which taxes were not paid. etc ); Report on Public Land Laws; Settlers on Unsurveyed Lands; Report on Tucson Land Dis trict (ehe Fred Smith case0 Admission of Arizona, etc.
 Fifty-thlrd Congress.
 Passed bill for the relief of certain counties for debts incurred in Indian trIals; passed bill granting lands to Buena Vista cemetery; passed bill em- towering Ooconino county to issue bonds for public building; passed bill extending time for proving up on des- ert land entries; reported bill granting chief justice of territorial courts to ap- point commissioners to take proofs in land cases. thus preventing long jour- neys to land offices; reported bill for the relief of settlers on unsurveyed lands, passed bill for the admission of Arizona as a state; addressed the house shown by the congressional In- dex, on the following subj .ots:
 The Agricultural Bill; Admission of Arizona; Arizona Claims; Arizona Funding Act; Arizona Legislature; Arizona Surveyor Generals Office; Army Appropriation Bill; Coconino County Bonds; Coconino County Building; Indian Appropriation Bill; Admission of New Mexico; Proof in Land Gases; Silver Bullion Coinage; Admission of Utah, and other in cidental subjects.
 Fmty-fitth Congress.
 Esta blished capital at Phoenix; in uroduced bill to admit Arizona; passed bill permitting Tucson to issue bonds for certain improvements; passed right of way bill for the Grand Canyon railroad; aided in former congress in passing Indian Expectations Claims bill and offered and pressed amend ment in this congress so as to include Apache Geronimo depredations. The report written by him on the amend ment of the Indian Depredatlons Claims consisted of over 15O pages and is full rxpose of the whole question of the Indians relation to the gov ernment-the government responsibil- ity as shown by tine treatIes, customs laws and decisions of the supreme court. Passed bill permitting Prescott to issue bonds for water works, etc. Passed bill permitting all towns in Arizona of 1.OOO population to exceed the Harrison act on indebtedness for fire and health purposes and introduc- ed many other bills of local import ance, as the record will show.
 He addressed the house on the fol- lowing question::
 Admission of Arizona; the Capitol Building; the Eight-hour Law (Vol. 31. 55 Con. Pad Session, page 49S4;) Territorial Courts; War Revenue Bill; Hawaiin Annexation; Army Reorgan- ization, etc, etc. In addition to these things he time after time defeated the bill to legalize the Pima county rail- road bonds, which subsequently, passed the house and senate. He defeated time after time the bill to force people grazing the public lands to pay a rent for such privileges He defeated the land court commi sion bull, which would have confirmed every title of Mexican land grants in Arizona. He got an appr opriation for Investigating Reavis land grant fraud through which it was defeated. He got the first appropriation for & specific ex- penditure on any irrigation scheme, to wit. Sl5, 900 for preliminary survey of the Gila river at the Buttes above Florence and subsequently, got ad- ditional money for further examination at San Carlos for the same purpose. He got an appropriation of $lO,O00 to build the levee at Yuma to protect the town from floods and forced the same on the River and Harbor bill when every member of the committee 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 $25, ,0OO was paid the climants and MT. Smith