The border vidette., 1914-09-05
AN OPEN LETTER.
Some ot the Many Things Mark Smith
 Has Done in the Senate.


 After little over two years
 of service in the Senate. it is
 but fitting that 1 should render
 to the people of Arizona some account of the things have ac- complished, and the principles
 which actuated me in the per formance of the manifold and important duties that pertain to the office of United States Senator.
 By reason of my former service in the House of Representatives, have been appointed to high places on Committees, that carry the prosperity of the Western States in their hands. am now Chairman of the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Land, from which I reported and had pass ed the act extending the time of payment under Irrigation Pro- jects from ten to twenty years. As the second man on the Com mittee on Public Land, I have been consulted in the prepara- tion of all the conservation measures now pending before the Senate. I am the only Senator of whom I have know ledge, who was placed on what is deemed the most important Committee in the Senate during his first year Senate, to-wit, the Committee of foreign affairs, which is composed of men of long service and great ex- perience in public affairs.
 When Woodrow Wilson be- came president of the United States it was agreed that certain great reforms should be under taken by the Sixty third Con gross. l have assisted the Ad- miniStration in enacting into law a downward revision of the tariff, and in the establishment of a new financial system which deprives Wall Street of the cou- trol of the money market and provides currency sufficiently elastic to meet the requirements of trade and commerce at all seasons.
 My vote have been in favor of the antitrust bills advocated by the president, and they will be in force before this session of Con- gress adjourns. These are prin- cipal achievements of the present Congress and this Ad- ministration, and furnish a record of accomplishment un- in legislatives annuals.
 While I did not agree with the President that the Panama Act violated our treaty with Great Britain, yet, I gladly voted for the bill repeating the tolls eX when it was amended so as to save every American right of ownership, sovereignty and control over the canal. 1 fully concurred in the finding by the president that free tolls to ships owned by citizens of the United States was a mistaken policy" in that the ex- was but another name for a subsidy to the shipping trust which controls our coast | wise commerce. For this | reason my vote was cast in i favor of the repeal.
 On numerous occasions l have l been called upon to vote on | measures in behalf of American | labor. An examination of the | record will show that no vote of | mine has jeopardized the best | interest of the workingmen of | my State, but that on all oc- casions I have been in sym | pathy with their just demands. |
 Neither you nor I have time to go over my record in full. | As matter of proof of vigil | ance, I know that iE the 62nd | Congress, after April 2nd, the date I took office, the whole | number of bills and resolutions | in the Senate was 1 2476. Of these bills, POP be- came laws, or only 1 in every 1 12. I introduced 21 bills aud 2 Of these I had 1 to pass the Senate, one in every l 1. and 1 out of every : introduced ] by me became laws at that 1 session.
 In the 63rd Congress, now still in session, l have introduc- ed II Bills and have passed 15 of | this number through the Senate.
 l have written reports on many bills from Committees on 1 which I serve, and am Chairman ] of several ub-COmmitteeS through which Committee work l