{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3560", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "i\\ni?\u00c2\u00b0-\\niP-Ki\\nTi,\\n^0\\n^-^t^\\nV\\nv^-^^", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ",-i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^0^\\nv^ V.\\n,-J^ V\\nV\\no\\nS o .1\\nv^;\\nO,,- .0 ..5 J\\n5 S\\n0*\\nS^ ^v-\\n^w:-\\nV c^^\\n,0\\nC\\nV\\nf^\\nv7;^-.%\\n-7^^\\nC\\n4q..\\n.0-\\n-J.^\\n,-J\\n^oV\\nA\\n:5 V\\ni\\nV\\n4*\\n(S H\\n.0\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y\\n^-^o\\n1^\\n-^n c,\\n^^^9^\\nV\\n^0* \u00c2\u00b04;%\\nt", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "S Vx\\nr\\nPOST-OFFICE APPEOPEIATION BILL.\\nSPEECH:\\nOF\\nWm. MARCUS A. SMITH,\\nOF ARIZONA,\\nIN THE\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\nWednesday, MAr.cn 16, 1898.\\nW^SHINGrXON\\n1898.\\nS .V- .S", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "x^\\nftll\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Sqs-\\n6860;\\n^-70/", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. MA EC US A, SMITH.\\nThe House being in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and\\nhaving under consideration the bill (H. R. 9008) making appropriations for\\nthe service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30,\\nISOO\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nMr. SMITH of Arizona said:\\nMr. Chairman: As general debate on this bill has taken th\u00c2\u00a9\\nnsnal wide range, and thus given opportunity to many elociuent\\ngentlemen to paint in living colors the unfortunate condition sur-\\nrounding the people of Cuba, I deem it not inopportune to call the\\nattention of this House and the country to the cruel and inhuman\\ntreatment which the Territories of the United States are receiving\\nat the hands of the General Government. At the outset permit\\nme to assert that there is no community or people on the face of\\nthe earth who feel a deeper sympathy with the suffering people of\\nCuba or greater indignation at the brutality of Spain than the\\nunrepresented citizens of our Western Territories. A fellow-\\nfeeling makes us wondrous kind.\\nHaving felt the hand of oppression, we keenly feel the necessity\\nof freedom. Having suffered from injustice, we actually hate it\\nwherever we chance to see it. On account of what we have in\\nour own persons felt, I do not hesitate to declare that the sincerest\\nlovers of liberty, the most impersonal patriots on our soil to-day,\\nare the people of Arizona. They are no strangers to republican\\nform of government, yet one might conclude they were if their\\nhistory were written only in the proceedings of Congress and its\\ncommittees.\\nDescendants of Revolutionary heroes are there. Veterans of the\\ntriumphant army of the North in the late great v/ar and their\\n3337 3", "height": "3362", "width": "2113", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "children are tliere. Those who followed with courage the con-\\nquered banner till all save life and honor were lost are there. Of\\nthese and such as these is the matchless citizenship of Arizona\\ncomposed, and far across the rolling plains and steepled cities\\nand lofty mountain tops they stretch a congratulatory hand to\\neveryone here who has had the humanity, courage, and patriot-\\nism to express a sentiment in favor of the freedom of Cuba peace-\\nfully if possible, biit at the cannon s mouth if necessary.\\nBut, Mr. Chairman, we have not listened with patience to your\\nproposal to annex Hawaii, with its mongrel citizenship and sugar-\\ntrust domination, while Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma,\\nwith more than half a million of American freeborn, yet en-\\nslaved, citizens are taxed without representation, denied even the\\nright of local self-government, and, above all, denied their consti-\\ntutional right to statehood. Against this we have iH otested, and\\nstill protest. Unavailing this protest will continue to be until\\nother and juster men shall take your places here and fill other\\nhigher places now held by the enemies of our cause.\\nTwice have I passed a bill admitting Arizona to statehood\\nthrough this House when the Democrats had control. My prede-\\ncessor, with all the industry of his nature, aided by every inge-\\nnuity his mind or imagination could summon, barely got a state-\\nhood bill out of committee in a Republican House, and never got\\nand never could get even a hope of its consideration in the House.\\nHe did as well and as much as any man could have done with\\nBuch a House. He did as well as I have been enabled to do with\\nthe present House, or as any man could do with it. The truth is\\nthat the goldbug Republican party is opposed to the admission of\\nany other Western State, and as long as it reigns Arizona will be\\nleft as it is, no matter who shall be sent here as Delegate. You\\nknow this as well as I do.\\nThe Committee on Territories by a strict party vote early in\\nthe present session denied us statehood. Every Democrat pres-\\nent voted for statehood. Every Republican present voted against\\nstatehood.\\nWhen there was no longer a chance for victory on this line I\\nbegan to press my bill for home rule in Arizona, and it met ex-\\nactly the same fate. That was simply a bill to grant to Arizona\\n3357", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "the poor right to elect certain officers named therein by vote of\\nthe people instead of having strangers, carpetbaggers, and in-\\ncompetents thrust on us by any President of the United States or\\nany of his advisers.\\nNo point was ever made against this bill in committee or else-\\nwhere that entitles itself to decent consideration. No objection\\nwas ever urged higher than the miserable idea of giving office to\\nsome political striker or ward heeler. I do not mean here to char-\\nacterize our present officers in Arizona as such heelers, but the\\nprinciple is the same, and one thing is certain, the one holding\\nnow the highest office, that of governor, used every argument and\\nexhausted his energy in trying to defeat the home-rule bill in\\nfavor of the passage of which every single county in Arizona is\\nalmost unanimous.\\nNobody opposed it except some meritless beneficiary of the pres-\\nent outrageous system. The people of Arizona wanted to elect\\ntheir own officers. The Republican committee of this House\\nwanted to retain Republican incumbents. The Republican in-\\nciambents wanted to stay in. They feared the people, and well\\nthey might and well they may when they or any of them come\\nbegging suffrage who have against their record this selfish fight\\non the just powers of the people.\\nI have just come from the Committee on Territories, where I\\nhave been pleading for the simple right to elect by vote of the\\npeople the men who administer our Territorial affairs. These men\\nhave no Federal functions; they have nothing to do with the ad-\\nministration of Federal questions. The function of these offices\\nare purely Territorial, and the Federal Government has no right\\nand no business to appoint or interfere in any way with them.\\nMr. Chairman, we have begged, we have importuned, we have\\npetitioned for this poor boon, but we have been put off unanswered,\\nour importunities have been unheeded, and we, as our fathers of\\nold with their petitions, have been spurned with contempt from\\nthe foot of this throne.\\nTalk about independence! Is there any free country on earth\\nwhere this would be tolerated, or any freeman on earth who\\nwould justify it? Any high-bred freeman who could look with-\\nout complaint on such injustice as this would kick himself in\\n3357", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nevery waking hour and deserves the nightmare in every hour of\\nsleep.\\nPrate here on other questions ahout patriotism, justice, and\\nhumanity if you -will, but how can you justify this thing? No\\nplace this side of Hussia, no man worthy to be a citizen of any\\ncountry freer than Russia, can or will even attempt to justify a\\nvote against home rule for Arizona.\\nNothing but politics, mean, contemptible politics, has beaten\\nthe home-rule bill for Arizona, and politics of no better type has\\nkept us out of the Union. The country has divided on a great\\nfinancial question, and because we would not bow down at the\\nfoot of Baal s idols we were told to stay out of the Union. [Ap-\\nplause.] Well, we will stay out vmtil that question is settled, and\\nsettled right. I know and you know that you will not admit a\\nState that you can not control in favor of the single gold standard.\\nOur people are for free silver.\\nThey are right. They can not be cajoled, boiight, or bulldozed\\ninto change of principle. They are not of the knee- bending habit,\\nthat fawning may bring thrift. We know you will not let us have\\ntwo silver votes in the Senate as long as j^ou Republicans are in\\npower, but can you not, just out of the abundance of your sweet\\nmercy, let us have a little taste of that autonomy you are talk-\\ning of giving to Cuba? [Laughter.] Justice as well as charity\\nshould begin at home. Let it not for a minute be inferred that\\nour people are against Cuba.\\nThey glory in the valor of the insurgents and long to see freedom\\nand victory at once perch upon the banner their valor has carried\\nthrough famine, fire, and battle charge.\\nThe heroic fortitude exhibited chains our admiration, and the\\ninsurgents course would be fully justified if Spain had treated her\\na whit less ungratefully or with a whit more of wrong than the\\nFederal Government persists in visiting on its Territories.\\nMr. KING. The gentleman forgets that a good many home\\npatriots need office in the Territories.\\nMr. SMITH of Arizona. That is the whole trouble, as the gen-\\ntleman from Utah well knows, having seen it at work in his own\\nState before its admission.\\n3357", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Mr, Chairman, I know full well the struggle parties make for\\npolitical supremacy. I appreciate a political party s unwilling-\\nness, even by just and ijroper measures, to advance the prospects\\nof their political adversaries. The country has divided SG[uarely\\non the money question. The East mistrusts the West. Under no\\npromise, even if it should ho made, would the Western silver Ter-\\nritories be admitted as States while this (luestiou remains unset-\\ntled and the Republicans hold this House.\\nBut these considerations do not enter into the home-rule ques-\\ntion. You could give us this without hurting your gold scheme\\nor affecting the result of any Congressional or Presidential elec-\\ntion. You could let us pay and distribute our own taxes through\\nengines of our own creation without injury to your party any-\\nwhere on earth. You can not refuse us this natural right with-\\nout forgetting every sense of human liberty, every idea of legal\\njustice, every aspiration of a free soul, and descend to grovel in\\nunjust espionage and pay a miserable Caesar s tribute to your\\nspies out of the hard-earned money of a people who deserve your\\ndecent consideration and despise your despotism as a just man\\nhates wrong.\\no357", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "H119 7ii 549", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "r\\nA^\\nV-^.\\nJ~\\nA^^\\n.c,\\n.0\\n-^^0^\\n.^o^.\\nA\\nN^^ f^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2/^s\\nv-^.\\n.0\\nC3\\no\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r:^^:....\\nAC\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I o.\\n.0\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0v^O\\noK\\n0* !4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i O^. c.\\nf\\n^q.\\n1. .So--\\n.-C\\nf^ ,G^\\n^U\\nW:\\nf\\njr\\nIf? v^\\nrr^.\\n^0 ^^b\\nH o^\\n0-\\nV\\n^^/v,; .c;^ /fS^\\\\\\n^^S\\n.v^.\\n/^Vt /^W", "height": "3357", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "postofficeapprop00smit_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "V\\nV^ O.\\nV^.\\ny v\\n,0 c o\\nV\\n.^3\\n,0^\\n.^9^\\no V\\nrt o Vv L -CV _ r\\\\ o c _\\n^oV\\nr!ft-V .o^ V-^\\n^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2v.\\nU r^ i-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0V\\nN. 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