Show EXI EXISTING G LAWS LAiS ARE ARoE DEFECTIVE t p Bill to Repeal 1 and Stone Act 4 t AMENDS LIEU LANE LAND SECTION 4 i ot OT 07 NEW Washington Nov No 11 Senator Hans Haa Hansbrough brough introduced a bill in the senate which by implication repeals the tim timber timber ber bet and tone stone act under which land hand landis landI is I now acquired at ap an acre regard regardless less lees of Its Ita real value The measure m a ure is intended le to t cure ure defects in existing laws check speculation in public tim timber timber ber her lands and sad put an end to the frauds which recently have grown Crown into a na Da national scandal it was referred to the committee twe on OD public lands of which the th author is the chairman The Tb secretary or Of 0 the interior is au authorise under the new bill to make examinations and estimates relative to the tM quantity and value of oC the timber Umber and aDd stone OK on the public lands ands and to sell Jell II the right riCht to dispose of the same me in such auda quantities seem advisable to the highest tM bidders This plan is isnow isnow now DOW pursued in tIe the sale of timber on OIl Indian lands Janda in Minnesota ota The title to land remains In m the government and secretary of the interior may fix the limit of time In which the purchaser er of Ute th right shall remove the timber or stone The right to cut the timber and make It a merchantable quantity is I Imade made inalienable Effect of the Bill Bin If Senator Han measure be becomes becomes comes come a law all the timber Umber land on the U e public domain will be withdrawn from entry and the government will enter upon POR the policy of If disposing of its tim timber timber ber her at its market value One provision in the Mil bill prohibits the entry of these the e lands landas under the homestead or old land laws It is II argued by Senator Hane Hans Hansbrough brough that in leaving the fee to the theland theland theland land in the government reforestation will take place and the sale of timber will be a source of large revenue The second section of the bill amends the lieu land hand section so as to provide when a settler whose who e entry falls within a forest forast ore t reserve selects another piece of land Jand to in ij lieu of his original entry it must be more valuable for agricultural purposes es than thaB for timber Umber or stone Un Under Under der tier the existing law many of ot the entry men who find And themselves within a for forest forest forest est reserve cut and dispose of ot the tim timber her ber oa on the land laud and later go outside of the reserve and file a homestead home tead on other Umber land Jand roes Proofs to Be e Made The third section of the bill amends the act of March 11 11 1101 1001 and requires ajl proofs of 41 commuted homestead home tead and aDd desert land entries to o be made nade de before registrars and receivers in local land offices This proposed amendment to existing law is 1 recommended by the commissioner of he h general land hand office who in his hili last lt report reper says Y The privileges gained pIned by DY the act have bave been greatly abused particularly by b United States commissioners who have often been parties to wholesale ale frauds fra in connection with wi th proofs made before ore them |