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Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS I'aeJlie Const Bills. HV-hiimlun, 6. Re pre? entativy Payo today introduced a hill appropriating ap-propriating lllt),U00 for the erection of a new postullice Duilding tit Sacra-men Sacra-men lo. Pacheco's bill for the sale of timber lands exempts Irom its operations all lands containing minerals and all isettlers' improvements. It also reserves re-serves all b.ma Ji-le rights already attached under the United States laws and in regard to lauds berealter surveyed sur-veyed gives Ihe actual occupants prior opportunities for purchase before I'fl'.riug thu lai.ds tor public sale. Each applicaut purchasing any quarter, section already surveyed is required to make oath of his bonajidc intention to appropriate (or hia own use aud nut for sale, and that ho has. made no other application appli-cation and has nut agreed in any way to transfer the title. Pa-checo Pa-checo eays he is not committed to every detail of the bill, and .will auk its very careful consideration at Lhe hands of the public lands committee, of which he is a member. Luttrell's bill for the introduction of fresh water on the desert west of Fort Yuma is the Wozancroft measure meas-ure of last session, with two modifications. modifica-tions. The first provides that the secretary of the interior shall appoint ap-point three competent persons to appraise ap-praise the present value of land, and that Wozencrult and hia associates shall pay for them at such appraised valuations before acquiring titles. The second amendment provides that the latter rates be fixed by army engineers en-gineers detailed by the secretary of war for examination of the work as to its progress. It Btill requires work lo be commenced within two years and completed iu ten. |