Show Fort J f To Be b ned Radical Change M May y be Made Terms in r a of Leasing Indian Lands L ds to Ito White Settlers Hom Homestead stead Bill ill ai an n Doli Doubt bt t Accordi According J to Washington special in Saturdays Herald Herald- Republican Senators Smoot moot and Sutherland took up with Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- r. r tary Ballinger ng r the question of leasing Indian lands on tl the e Uinta reservation to White settlers settlers set set- tiers They su suggested that leases leaser be he made for a period of five years the first three years without v hout rent and the last two y years at a rental of 1 per acre This suggestion seemed to meet the approval of th the de de- It It- Itis is the opinion of Senators Smoot and Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland Suther Suther- land that tha only a n part of each i allotment sh should uld be he leased lease l i about sixty acres out of each eighty f-ei f so that the Indians w would each retain twenty acres I and they wo would ld have the example example ex ex- ample of the white settlers to stimulate them to cultivate their land All ll this 1 land nd water on it Another subject that the senators to took k up tIp the secretary secretory of the th interior inter r vas va th the question question of iouin Fort th the que on J n of of the of-the the tl necessity C S ity for maintaining maintain maintain- ing an army post post post-at at this point having been r referred in interior terror department by the av VaT r department After o their conference cou con t f ference ferenc it yas was nn announced that t that there no tio intention of f r I t abandoning the post present t. t The conferees of I i j jand It and Senate the tile Indian J nn tn ap ap- i bill have agreed to toan I Ian an an appropriation of for fOT i for forr a steel bridge over O the Thu- Thu chesne river near Theodore i. i ji Ifs l The question ques of granting 3 lease leaser to the tire homesteads Ton the he I Uintah reservation was not V f Er f. f agreed ng upon by J the f e ea f Senator t Still hop to o v vision in jn the Tu ili Jl secure this v pr provision bill hill but hut there ther is isi i violent lent t appo opposition po Aw to it by 13 the House conf con con- r f J |