The border vidette., 1911-12-02

of the recital. Possibly some one
 may remember that it was Marl
 Smith who defeated the join 1 statehood bill The most powerful 1 forces of the country were fol joint statehood. Mark Smith
 voicing the will of the people O1 this commonwealth, generated
 the fight against the bill, and be
 cause he was right he won. Mark Smith did that.
 While serving on the Com l mittee of Indian Affairs, he, in
 company with Mr. Stephens of Texas. drew and had pissed through the House the bill for
 the payment of Indian depreda-
 tiOn claims, under which many
 hundreds of thousands of dollars
 has been paid to Western set
 tiers, many of whom reside in
 Arizona, and but for the amend
 ment placed on the House bill in the Senate by Senator EdmondS of Vermont, all the just Apache Indian claims in Arizona would have been allowed.
 He passed the bill through Congress forcing the govern ment to pay the expenses of trial and the cost of Imprisonment of all reServ vation Indians charged with crime in Territory of Ari- zona. Under this bill large sums of money were returned to the different counties in the Terri torry.
 As the population and busi- ness increased in Arizona, he caused new judicial districts to be created by Congress for the purpose of meeting quickly the demands of litigants
 When the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F'e Railroad bought the. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad they claimed exemption from taxes by reason of the terms of the original land grant of the and Pacific road and it refused to pay the taxes for many years and caused the coun- ties much litigation on account of it. When they attempted to get a -chart 1T from Congress the two roads under one system. Mark Smith successfully opposed the grant of such charter until the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa F'e agre- ed to pay, and ever since that time has paid into the treasury of the different counties which it runs the fiat | sum of S173 per mile taxes, and | the road further stipulated that | it would waive any claim of ex emption under the original act | after Arizona became State. l
 For years he has successfully 1 resisted the effort to charge the | of Arizona for the | of grazing the public l lands.
 'When the town of Yuma was by the floods of the | Gila River he procured and ap- ton by means of which | was built the levee that now protects Yuma from that danger, and this he did over the un- animOuS report and the OppOSi- tion of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors.
 He caused the public debt of Arizona to be refunded by Con- gross at a much lower rate of | thus saving the Terri | tory many thousands of dollars | l year.
 He passed the statehood bill | the House of Repre- four separate times, only to have it defeated by the l Senate.
 During the last Congress in | which he served more than four l hundred pensions were granted ] to Arizona claimants.
 He was the first Delegate | who successfully placed in the statehood bill a grant of four sections of land instead of two heretofore granted new States n each township for the support )f public schools, and the same las been retained in the bills for he admission of Arizona and New Mexico every time that either has passed the House.
 "These are just a few of Mark Smiths services for Arizona. I want to tell you that the man who is going to be my associate rom Arizona in the Senate is he nObleSt battery that has ever in the cause of Ari- .Ona Let no Arizona voter for