Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-20
MARK SMITHS OFFICIAL RECORD
AS AR|zONES ABLE DELEGATE
He Has Always Been Equal to Every Emergency in Look
ing to the Welfare and Protecting the Interests of
Arizona in the National Law Making Body
INTRODUCED FIRST BILL TO DEVELOP
THE WATER RESOURCES OF ARIZONA
In FfSecond Congress Secured the Passage of Arizona
Funding Act Decreasing interest on Debt Nearly
0ne-HaF

Introduced again bill for admission
of Arizona Republican congress re
fused to give report. Maize speech be
| fore committee for over an hour and
/ spoke in the house OF the injustice
j done Arizona.
Introduced bills ana worked hard
! for their passage: To increase nay OF
jurors and witnesses n our rsderai
courts; to develop our WAGER iesourc-
ESQ to legalize the general laws OF
Arizona; Tor an additional Judge Of
| the supreme court; various bills for
| che relief OF private persons, such as
claims and pensions, many Of which
were passed. Reported from COM
\ mittee bill to forfeit certain Mexican
land grants; a bill for the irrigation
| of desert lands, etc; $780, = bill to
settle private land claims; bin
l granting right of way ror water ditca
at Yuma, and various oths.' bills,
many of which were favo-ably report
ed. He addressed Tue mousse in THIS
congress on the following subject
Alien Land Law; Alien Owners;
Arizona; ARIZONA Funding Act
| (passed) The Surveyor General Oh
fce"; "On the DEATH o. lanes v.
Beck, (Sen. Ky.); indian Crimes;
Irrigation Survey: ''Maricopa Cou.,
ty r. r. Bonds" Oklahoma" "i.s-
dian Appropriation Bilf'; Indian
Scouts; THE Land Courts, Public
Land Surveys
Fifty-second Congress.
Reported from committee and pass
ed Arizona Funding Act decreasing
interest on debt nearly one-half; :e-
ported from committee and passed
through the house the famous sIc-
Garaham claim, who had oeen robbed
from bis estate by the New ldria MIu-
ing company in which d. o. Mills was
large owner. This is one Of the most
famous cases In all The history of con
gress. Reported from committee and
passed bill ratifying the Worlds Fair
act of the territorial legislature; re-
ported from committee md passed bill
for admission of Arizona as a state.
Introduced many other bills. Relief
of settlers on unsurVeyed land, re-
moyal Of PaPagoes on She ella 20 The
reservation near Tucson; bill for the
irrigation of arid lands; for develop
ment of mineral lands on San Carlos
reservation; passed bill for right of
way for Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
railway; passed bill for relief OF set
tiers who had paid money by mistake
to Fred W. Smith while receiver ar
Tucson land office and who defauitec
in large sum; passed bills for relief
of Mrs. Van Vliet near Wilcox and
one for relief of Henry A. Reed at
Nogales; addressed the house on the
following matters: Arizona Funding
Act"; ARIZONA Exhibit at Worlds
Fair; Army Appropriation Bill;
Court of Private Land Claims; DE
ficiency Appropriation Bill"; Indian
Depredations Claims; Indian Edu-
cation; McGaraham's claim
"Postoffice Appropriation BIZ: Pub
lie Land Surveys; Relief of Henry
A. Reed; River and Harbor BIZ:
''Rules of the House; Free Coinage
of Silver; "Sundry Civil Bill"; Tim
yer Culture Laws; Timber Agents
and Indian Reservations"
he wrote and made the following
favorable reports from committees:
The Funding Act; A. & T. Land Grant
Enquiry on law on which taxes were
not paid, etc.); Report on Public Land
Laws; Settlers on Unsurveyed Lands;
Report on Tucson Land District, (theI
Fred Smith case); Admission Of Ari-
IONA, etc.
Fifty-third Congress,
Passed bill for the relief os certain
counties for debts incurred in Indian
trials; passed bill granting lands TO
Buena Vista cemetery; passed bin
empowering Coeonino county to issue
bonds for public building; passed bill
extending time for proving up on des-
ert land entries; reported bill grant
ing chief justice of territorial courts
to appoint commissioners to take
proofs in land cases, thus preventing
long journeys to land offices; reported
bill for the relief or settlers on I'M
surveyed lands; passed bill for the
admission of Arizona as a state; ad-
dressed the house, as shown by the
congressional index on the following
subjects:
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;
Cases; Silver Bullion Coinage; Admis-
sion of New Mexico; PROOF IN Land
Cases; Silver Bullion Coinage; Admis-
sion of Utah, and other incidental
subjects.
Fifty-Fifth Congress.
(Reed Speaker.)
Established capitol at Phoenix; in
troduced 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 for
mer congress in passing Indian Depre-
daff1-c 1Iafrne hill and ofFarad and
pressed amendment in this congress
so as to include Apache Geronimo
depredations- The report written by
him on the amendment of the Indian
Depreciation claims consisted OF over
$50 pages and Is full expose Of the