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Show Amendment to the Mining Law. The mining bill passed by the house on Wednesday, provides that the annual expenditures on mining claims shall not be required till the patents are actually issued, but only until the application aud final proofs of payment have been made. It also provides that in case an adverse claim is asserted and suite commenced com-menced after the filing of an application applica-tion for patent, the annual expenditure expendi-ture shall not be required until the contest is determiued by the courts. Page and Piper of California opposed the bill on the ground that the existing exist-ing laws are working well and that amendments are unnecessary and tend to disturb titles; aUo that non-res- j identa or speculators could hold clai ms 1 without developing them by inducing other persons to assert bogus claims to tho same land and beat them in litigation indefinitely under this bill. Luttrell, Wigginton, Lane of California, Califor-nia, and Maginnis of Montana favored fav-ored the bill, and it passed as recommended recom-mended by the house committee by a large majority. |