{"1": {"fulltext": "55", "height": "4883", "width": "3011", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "xy", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "SPEECHES\\nOF\\nHON. MARCUS A. SMITH,\\nOF ARIZONA,\\nDELIVERED IN\\nTHE HOUSE OF REPEESENTATIYES,\\nAprU 7tli, 1898, and June 15th, 1898.\\nTHE REORGAKIZATIOX OF THE ARMY AND\\nOUR REIiATIOIs^S WITH SPAHST,\\nAND\\nTHE HAWAIIA:N^ QUESTIO^Sr.\\nWe had better admit our territories and encourngc their develapmcnt before\\nwe begin doubtful deals in islandic real estate.\\nTo refuse self-government in this country is a political crime.\\nAVASHIlSrO XON.\\n1 8 ij 8", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "co^\\n68603", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Reorgrauizatiou of the Reg:ular Army.\\nSPEECH\\nHON MARCUS A. SMITH,\\nOF ARIZONA,\\nIn the House of EEPRESENTAii^rES,\\nThursday, April 7, 1898,\\nOn the bill (H. R. 9353) for the better organization of the lino of the Army of\\nthe United States.\\nMr. SMITH of Arizona said:\\nMr. Speaker: This bill for the reorganization of the Army does\\nnot meet my entii-e approbation. It is called a Regular Army\\nbill, when in fact it is a Volunteer Army at last. Why not make\\nit a Volunteer Army bill and let the recruits under officers of\\ntheir own selection go forthwith their pride of locality to fight, if\\nneed be, the battles of our country? Under this bill few, if any,\\nbrave, ambitious men will enlist. Their identity and that of their\\ncompany will be lost. Without pride in the name of their State\\ntheir locality their neighbors, who, shoulder to shoulder with\\nthem in deeds of daring, shall carry to honor their country s ban-\\nner I say without these incentives the recruits under this bill,\\ninstead of being the best, will, I fear, prove the worst soldiers we\\ncould possibly enlist. Yet I refuse to oppose my committee on\\nthis only difference between it and me. And I am all the more\\nwilling to surrender my judgment because if things go on as\\nthey have been going, we will bear a disgraceful peace and possi-\\nbly apologize to Spain for sending the Maine to the peaceful har-\\nbor of Cuba. This bill naturally brings us to a consideration of\\nthe necessity that prompts it, and in dealing with that question I\\nask the indulgence for a few moments of this House of Represent-\\natives.\\nMr. Speaker, American honor has been sacrificed on the altar of\\nMammon. In the interest of stock gamblers masquerading as", "height": "4529", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "business men we have for more than a year suffered every out-\\nrage that insolence could suggest at the hands of Spain, and still\\nwe find this Administration has been advocating peace and beg-\\nging for time in which to force the patriots in Cuba to make terms\\nwith their brutal oppressors. Our inaction under all conditions\\nfacing us has been simply disgraceful to us as a nation; but let us\\nhope we have saved the business interests of the country. It\\neeems that this sam.e business interest knows much more about\\nthe course the Executive is to pursue than His Excellency has seen\\nfit to disclose to either House of Congress. The President has not\\ntaken Congress into his confidence in the great question which so\\nvitally concerns the dignity and honor of the United States.\\nHe asked Congress for \u00c2\u00a750,000,000, and we gave it without a dis-\\nBenting vote in either House. What did we do it for?\\nWas it to scare Spain or was it to fight Spain? We gave him\\nour confidence and he sends us a message so utterly useless, so\\nwanting in information, so void of suggestion that a deep sense\\nof disappointment swept over every Jrue loyal American heart\\nin this Hall. And what are we now to expect? Will we need\\nthis Army for which this bill provides? Will we need the Navy\\nwe are purchasing when the President, by general well-accredited\\nrumor, is to-day writing another peace message and begging the\\nrepresentatives of the people for more and more tim,e in which, I\\npresume, he and Spain can force the Cuban patriots to terms satiS\\nfactory to Spain and the business interests of the New York\\nand London stock exchanges.\\nPersonally I have long admired the President of the United\\nStates. I had hoped much for the Americanism of his Adminis-\\ntration. I desired to see it stand in our relations with Spain and\\nCuba in striking contrast with that which disgraced us under\\nCleveland. But our hopes have been cruelly disappointed. There\\nhas not been two days within the last thirty when any member of\\nCongress or any citizen of this Republic could guess what attitude\\nthe President would assume on the next two days. The stock\\nexchange would show peace when we here were expecting war.\\nPeace was the proper guess, and no wonder, when we consider\\nthe surroundings of the Chief Executive of the nation. Look at\\nhis Cabinet, oh, my countrymen, and weep! How he ever got\\n346]", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "them, the Lord only knows. That they are all gentlemen. 1 have\\nno earthly doubt. Theyare too gentle. That is the trouble. They\\nno doubt represent the business interests, and that ought to\\nsatisfy us. Most Presidents have selected statesmen for their\\nCabinet. One President discovered statesmen for his, but it has\\nbeen left to the present Executive to invent them.\\nNow, let us review in the light or darkness of what I have said\\nour relations with Spain. Let us see whether the $50^000,000 was\\na necessary investment and whether the present bill is needed. It\\ndepends on the question whether or not these United States are\\nbeyond insult as a nation. Sirs, I confess a deep sympathy with\\nthe struggling patriots of Cuba. No man can indulge this senti-\\nment with more sincerity than one coming from a Territory kept\\nout of the Union by the same conservative policy of delay which\\nhas starved Cuba almost into subjection; kept out by the busi-\\nness interest which holds the Republican party in the hollow of\\nits hand; prevented by this very Congress from exercising the\\nright to elect their own officers; held under the hard hand of car-\\npetbag rule and treated, so far as liberty is concerned, as cruelly\\nas Spain has treated the Cubans. I say, seeing these things and\\nliving under these conditions, I confess to a deep sympathy with\\nthe unhappy island at the door of our Gulf.\\nBut as much as these sentiments oppress my heart, I feel a\\ndeeper sympathy with our Kepublic, administered as it now is,\\nfor shame is mingled with it, and I cry with the Roman states-\\nman, How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience? If\\nthe business interest does not otherwise dictate to its servants,\\nit seems that war is imminent if not inevitable.\\nWhen Weyler s brutal order was issued, it was our time to act\\nwithout delay. When our commerce with Cuba long ago was\\nalmost utterly ruined, it was our time to act with American\\nenergy and force. When in February, 1897, as told by Richard\\nHarding Davis in the New York Journal, young ladies were\\nstripped and searched on board an American vessel by Spanish\\nsoldiers or policemen, after two similar outrages on shore, it was\\nevery American s time to act.\\nWhen the property of American citizens was destroyed by Spain\\nand citizens of the United States imprisoned in her dungeons.", "height": "4529", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nvrithont trial and withont apology and without compensation for\\ntbe outrage, it was the time for the President to speak the United\\nStates language to Spain in the cannon s breath, if need be. All\\nthese insults were received with disgraceful equanimity and these\\nepochs for action allowed to pass. A criminal conservatism, en-\\nforced, I believe, with the other common people of this country,\\nby bondholders and stock gamblers, has cost us our national\\nhonor and poor Cuba 300,000 souls.\\nA halting and uncertain Executive policy, backed by the wis-\\ndom of the Cabinet I have described, urged delay in recognition\\nof Cuban belligerency, prevented; by the aid of the Speaker of\\nthis House, the declaration of Cuban independence, and exercised a\\ndiplomacy so weak or cowardly that our dead of the Maine, from\\ntheir wandering graves, can admonish us though their voices are\\nstill.\\nWhile the business interests on the Stock Exchange are being\\nprotected, 10,000 helpless babes have been tugging at empty though\\nwilling breasts until death has come^ welcome visitant to relieve\\nthe victims of the greater woe of hunger. Such is the harvest you\\nreapers have gathered. Such will ever be the result when business\\nprudence in great emergencies is allowed to usurp the place where\\naction and courage should rule.\\nOur proud battle ship, riding in fancied security the waters of\\na peaceful harbor, is blown to atoms by Spanish treachery, our\\npoor sailor boys sent to an ignominious death, and the question\\ninvolved in this awful crime against us all is subrogated to the\\nbusiness interests of the country, and the President coolly in-\\nforms Congress of the murder and quits at that without one single\\nrecommendation, and in all the later correspondence with Spain\\nwhich has not been withheld from us she not even expresses a\\nregret or confesses a sympathy over these dead heroes.\\nAcross that center aisle in many a breast beats a heart in sym-\\npathy with mine. But what can you do? You meet and rebel at\\nnight, but come in next day and vote against a resolution declar-\\ning the independence of Cuba. You meet and rebel again, but\\nyou come in and hang your hats and backbones on the same peg,\\nand come with all the force of a jelly-fish under the eye of your\\ngreat leader and let the patriots starve while you wait the pleas-\\n3463", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ure of the Chair. This may be good politics, but it is not pure\\nimtriotism or decent humanity.\\nMy countrymen, what a beautiful spectacle has been made of\\nus on the field of diplomac} The President, we have been in-\\nformed, has brought the insurgents of Cuba and Spain nearly\\nclose enough to settle their differences on a money basis. In the\\nmeantime, at the expense of millions of dollars, we have been\\npolicing our coast to prevent any aid reaching the pati-iots. Thus\\nwe have been the ally of Spain, and are still such in trying to\\nbring these warring people together and lay the heavy hand of\\ntaxation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not voluntary on those who have risked all and lost\\nnearly all in their glorious battle in the holy cause of liberty.\\nWhile these diplomatic negotiations were going on and we wero\\npreparing for war on the ground of humanity, Spain makes her\\nSpanish promise to retract Weyler s bloody order, to feed the re-\\nconcentrados, to return them to their wonted avocations, and\\ndeliver every charity which our pity or generosity might forward.\\nShe has thus met the gravest charge the President seems to have\\nhad against her, for the murder of the Maine is left for future\\nnegotiation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 diplomatic, I presume.\\nMy God! are we to arbitrate a question of blood out of regard\\nfor dollars? Are we to receive an Iscariot piece of silver for the\\nbetrayal of our country s honor? I speak in no party sense. I\\nspeak as an American urging as best I can the exercise of the true\\nunpolitical American spirit which I feel animates your breasts.\\nThese delays have starved Cuba and disgraced us. Your senile\\ndiplomacy has met the fate of fools. Even Spain has overmatched\\nus. I commend the courage of this Congress to our sailors and\\nsoldiers as an example to shun, or to our disgrace will be added\\nthe humiliation of defeat.\\nI am here reminded of a bit of history touching our relations\\nwith Spain which I can not recite without a deep feeling of\\nshame. Do you remember that the Virginius in 1873 was escorted\\nout of the harbor of Aspinwall by two American men-of-war, thus\\nacknowledging that the ship was an American ship? She was, when\\non the high seas, sailing under the American flag, carrying an Amer-\\nican charter, seized by a Spanish man-of-war and taken as a prize\\ninto Santiago de Cuba, and when she arrived, without any trial,\\n3i63", "height": "4529", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "8\\nbut on the order of the commanding colonel of the Spanish troops,\\nfifty-odd sailors were taken off board, landed on the shore, stood\\nnp against a brick wall, and cruelly shot to death.\\nThe United States demanded and received the ship, and she was\\nsunk off Cape Hatteras in a storm, as reported; but it is believed\\nshe was scuttled, as her very structure was evidence of her Ameri-\\ncan build and prima facie American ownership. This high-handed\\nact was done by Spain in pursuance of her pronunciamento that\\nany ship caught aiding the Cuban insurgents should be treated as\\npirates. Spain never denied the American ownership, but de-\\nclared her a piratical craft and murdered the men on board.\\nTwo years afterwards, by the same diplomacy we are now prac-\\nticing, we accepted $80,000 as full indemnity.\\nNo wonder that the caricaturists of Spain represented America\\nas a hog with a large dollar mark on the rear. They have the\\nright to still so represent an Administration who will longer par-\\nley with the questions at difference between us. The dollar mark\\nis on this Administration. I do^not mean to intimate any per-\\nsonal dishonor, but the groveling worship of the circulating\\nbusiness dollar, the fear of interfering with business interests,\\nso paralyzes the arm of an Administration which owes its exist-\\nence to it that virile, game, American patriotism has no chance\\nfor action, certainly no chance in this body as now constituted\\nand governed.\\nI do not hesitate to assert my firm conviction that the real busi-\\nness of this country as represented in productive industries had\\nrather, from a business standpoint, see actual war than to live\\nunder its constant threat.\\nThe real business men love this country and will make any sac-\\nrifice for its honor. Their interest is enveloped in its ascendency.\\nIts prosperity means their prosperity. But there is another busi-\\nness in this country that fattens on a fluctuating market. The\\ngame wins or loses in proportion to the doubt of war.\\nThree hundred millions, it is alleged, changed hands between\\nthe bulls and the bears in the last war excitement on Wall street,\\nyet that great amount means not one dollar of wealth produced;\\nbut it is the great business interest which must be protected\\n31C3", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "and which, wittingly or unwittingly, is being protected by tlio\\npresent policy of this Administration.\\nIn conclusion, Mr. SiDeaker, it becomes i^ertinent to ask Avliat\\ncourse under all the circumstances should be pursued by us. The\\nexplosion of the Maine would have justified and would still jus-\\ntify our temporary possession of the Island of Cuba and Spain s\\npermanent expulsion.\\nThat has been allowed to pass. I hate hypocrisy, I loathe\\nshams, I abominate pretenses. Let us be honest with ourselves\\nand with the world. The simple truth is Spain is not a pleasant\\nneighbor. She is too close to us; she can not control Cuba; she\\nhas no natural right to try. For twenty years and more her ef-\\nforts in that direction have injured our commerce and hurt our\\ntrade with friendly neighbors. We have stood it long enough;\\nwe should endure it no longer.\\nWe wage no war of conquest. We do not want Cuba so much\\nas we want peace in Cuba and friendly business relations with all\\nher people. Spain stands in the way of this, and she must be re-\\nmoved. Waiving all questions now of sympathy with those pa-\\ntriots on the island; waiving for this argument all question of\\nthe Maine, I put my opposition to Spanish control of Cuba on her\\nconstant interference with our relations with a close and friendly\\nneighbor. This is enough for me to feel that Cuba shall be free.\\nIf this brings war, let it come, and then the shame w^e have thus\\nfar borne and the humiliation we have suffered will be forgotten\\nin the glory of our victories, and we can then feel that some atone-\\nment has been made by Spain for the insolence of her behavior\\nand the murder of our men,\\n3-163", "height": "4475", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Proposed Auuexation of Hawaii.\\nSPEECH\\nOF\\nHON, MAECUS A. SMITH,\\nof arizona,\\nIn the House op Eepkesentatives,\\nMonday, June 13, 1898.\\nThe House having under consideration the joint resolution (H. Res. 359) to\\nprovide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States-\\nMr. SMITH of Arizona said:\\nMr. Speaker: As a citizen of one of our Western Territories I\\nprotest against this unnecessary haste in annexing the Islands of\\nHawaii to our possessions, and especially do I protest when I be-\\nlieve the real owners of those islands are opposed to annexation.\\nAmid war s excitements and alarm we are apt to be swept from\\nour feet and thrown into paths and policies dangerous to the future\\ngovernment of our country. When the war shall have ended and\\nthe smoke of battle cleared from our vision, when we shall have\\nregained the thoughtful and reflective nature of peace, we shall\\nhave time enough to pass on these questions thoughtfully, philo-\\nsophically, and, I trust, wisely.\\nWe had better admit to the Union our Territories before we be-\\ngin this doubtful deal in islandic real estate.\\nArizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma are in every particular\\nfully qualiiied for the duties and responsibilities of Statehood. I\\nhave so often described the resources of Arizona in committee and\\non this floor that I will not now detain the House with its repeti-\\ntion. If you willfully refuse to justly or properly govern your\\npresent territory, what can we expect for Hawaii and what can\\nshe hope for herself when the hand of your avarice and greed is\\nat her throat?\\nArizona, the fairest subdivision of North America, with bound-\\nless resources, with a iK)pulation second in energy, enterprise, and\\neducation to no Congressional district represented on this floor,\\nhas been forced for thirty-five years to pay tribute to the States,\\n10 3ica", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "11\\nand in all that weary time has received not one cent from the Fed-\\neral Treasury that was not due as a moral and legal obligation;\\nand while the liand of taxation has been busy V7ith her property,\\nthe hand of despotism has kept silent her voice.\\nI recall an incident in Boston Harbor that made history, yet\\ntaxation without representation is as wrong- now as it was then,\\nand those of you who impose this on us are degenerate sons of\\nsires who, rather than submit to such exaction, freely pledged\\ntheir lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. I could stand\\nyour treatment of us with more equanimity if we were more de-\\nserving of it. But we do not deserve it at all.\\nMr. Speaker, it has been said that Arizona is indeed a land of\\nsunshine and silver; a land where every farmer makes his own\\nrain, v/here the rewards of industry are as unerring as the de-\\ncrees of God; a land where wonder treads on beauty s heels and\\nriches rush to meet the earnest seeker; a land whose resources are\\nas varied as the prismatic lights and splendors which bathe her\\nsunsets in resplendent glory. And we cast all these away from\\nour consideration and with avaricious eyes gaze across 2,100 miles\\nof ocean s dreary waste and covet an island filled with a sugar\\ntrust, Chinese, Japanese, lepers, hula-hula dancers, and other vol-\\ncanoes. [Laughter.]\\nIf you prefer this company to our society as a State, we can\\nstand it; but we would like your society better if you were more\\nselect, sirs. The greed of empire has led, and will lead, to the\\ndesti uction of every nation that the world has marshaled on the\\nfields of time.\\nWe are doing pretty well as compared vnth the nations of the\\nearth. Whatever the proper position is to take with, regard to\\nHawaii hereafter, there is danger in action now. We should not\\nbe misled to hasty action by those visiting statesmen who spent\\nnearly eight days in Hawaii and return to us as the representatives\\nof the Hawaiian Republic in urging its admission to the Union.\\n[Laughter.]\\nI do not like the looks of these Trojan horses Timeo Danaos et\\ndona ferentes. No, sirs; I prefer, in the progress of a nation s\\nprosperity, one wheat field in a former desert waving in full fruit-\\nage at the touch of gentle breezes far above the elegance and grace\\na463", "height": "4475", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12\\nof any hnla-hnla dance in the most refined society of any island\\nin all the seas.\\nIn a new nation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and we are j et new and young it is far bet-\\nter to see one happy home reared by honest Anglo-Saxon hands\\non the plains of the West than to have added to our body politic\\nany number of Chinese or other alien cheap labor, dominated as\\nthey will always be by some enormous combine or trust.\\nOne-tenth of the money you will spend in fortifying Pearl Har-\\nbor and providing otherwise for its defense would easily reclaim\\n5,000,000 acres of desert land in the West, which would easily sup-\\nport a population of English-speaking people of at least 5,000,000\\nsouls. Compare this with what you get in Hawaii and think be-\\nfore you leap. Let not the siren song of some of our singers across\\nthe aisle lull our patriotic vigilance into fateful sleep. We have\\nplenty to do at home. We have more land and more resources in\\nArizona alone, which Congress can easily encourage and perfect,\\nthan the whole Hawaiian Islands contain.\\nLet justice, as well as charity, begin at home. Develop your\\nown Territories before you attempt to acquire other lands. You\\nwill divert by this resolution the attention of States away from\\nour western domain and fasten it on undesirable possessions in\\nthe seas. A desire to steal from the ignorant inhabitants of the\\nislands will lessen the purpose of working to build homes on the\\nplains or dig treasure from our mountains.\\nThe farther you remove our possessions the more credulous we\\nbecome in hearing stories of the wealth which remote countries\\nare handing out to all applicants, and swarms of people rush heed-\\nlessly over the boundless treasures of the Western plains and\\nmountains to follow this elusive will-o -the-wisp across the seas.\\nThere are many objections to the annexation of these islands\\nother than I have already stated.\\nThe population is objectionable. The last census shows the fol-\\nlowing:\\nNatives 39,504\\nChinese 25,407\\nJapanese 21,616\\nPortuguese 15,291\\nAmerican 3,080\\nGerman 1,4.33\\nEnglish 2,250\\n3463", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "13\\nHow is our action in taking into our body politic the virus here\\nshown to help us or anybody else except the sugar kings of the\\nislands? We have passed laws against Chinese immigration to\\nthis country and have spent vast sums in keeping them out, and\\nyet in this one act you make American citizens, or at least Ameri-\\ncan residents, of 25,000 Chinese, free to leave the cheap wages of\\nHawaii and come freely into our Western States and directly com-\\npete with our educated labor and break down still further the\\npresent small compensation given for a day of toil.\\nNot only this, but the very floodgates of China would be opened\\nupon us through Hawaii. Every applicant for admission would\\nprove by 100 witnesses that he was a resident of Hawaii at the\\ntime of its annexation, and the bars would be let down. There is\\nnot an intelligent body of organized labor in this country that\\ndoes not oppose at this time the resolution now before us. What-\\never may be the proper course to pursue with these islands here-\\nafter, and I am not now indicating what that course should be,\\nthis is of all times the worst to act.\\nThe war which was thrust on us by the brutality of Spain is now\\nin full progress. We are virtually in possession of the Philippine\\nIslands by the unparalleled skill and courage of Dewey and his\\nmen. We are preparing to invade Cuba and Puerto Rico. Peace\\nwill come some day, and in the settlement of its terms the future\\npolicy of this Government toward these islands can be settled all\\nat once, without this Hawaiian precedent as a landmark for our\\nguidance.\\nRather than commit my country now to the imperial policy of\\ncolonial accretion and colonial government, I would turn the\\nmoney necessary to such a course to the development of our in-\\nternal resources, and reap thereby a richer harvest than the wild-\\nest dream will ever see growing on these coveted islands.\\nI live in the West, and I love it and its people. Their hope and\\nmine is to see it grow and flourish, as it will with half the help\\nyour course now offers to the foreign hordes I have just mentioned.\\n1 am driven by these reflections to an advocacy of further inter-\\nnal improvements instead of prex)aring by your present policy to\\nincrease the Army in time of peace, and thus place labor under a\\ntax to drones and nonproducers. 1 would put an equal army at\\n3103", "height": "4475", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14\\nwork to make glad the waste places, an army of industrious work-\\ningmen employed at fair wages, and bringing into fruitage lands\\nnow barren and worthless.\\nI notice with concern and recognize with disgust the fact that\\nthose gentlemen on this floor whose zeal is the most ardent to\\nspend money, incur debts, take risks of foreign complications\\nand domestic discord in aid of a worthless island 2,000 miles and\\nmore from any present American harbor, are the very identical\\ngentlemen who refuse to let one dollar go to the necessary devel-\\nopment of our Territories and even refuse to give us the right to\\nelect our own officers.\\nWhatever through your wisdom or folly you may do with these\\nHawaiian Islands, I pray God you will protect them from the be-\\nnign rule of present Territorial government. Arizona is more en-\\ntitled to home rule than these Japs and Chinese are to annexa-\\ntion. I protest against your preference.\\nMr. Speaker, I will detain the House no longer, except to give\\nnotice, if the opportunity will be permitted me, to move an amend-\\nment, by way of a substitute, which will leave Hawaii in statu\\nquo and give statehood to Arizona. If this be ruled out of order,\\nI shall move to amend by adding at the end of the resolution the\\nbill I introduced, the purpose of which was to permit Arizona to\\nelect her own officers. Against that bill no reasonable objection\\nhas been urged or can be urged. To refuse this is a political\\ncrime. [Applause.]\\n[Note.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Smith subsequently offered to amend the resolu-\\ntion by adding a home rule provision for Arizona, but the Speaker\\nheld the amendment out of order and thus no vote was had on\\nthe amendment.]\\n3463", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4475", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n0 019 944 343 4", "height": "4506", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a055", "height": "4475", "width": "2618", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "019 944 343 4\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "4742", "width": "2869", "jp2-path": "speechesofhonmar00smit_0020.jp2"}}