Show WLL TO BE REPORTED AMENDED o DIVIDED AS TO ITS CHANCES Special to The Herald Wahington D B iJ C Feb 14 Representative Tongue of Oregon chairman of M the committee o irrigation and arid today designated Representatives Representatives tives Reed of Kansas Ray Ry of New York and Barham m of California as a sub subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee committee to rewrite the Newlands bill to t o reclaim arid lands The committee co by e 41 vote of 7 o t 3 decided to report r rt favorably te Newlands bill With an wp af f 11 I I T aid tonight t that he is ie a and also added that t tf ks with I a number of western ii f satisfied that the Newlands bill pass RS at this session ses lon In bu minority I report Barham will suggest that the reclamation at on funO shall be d drewn wn entire entirely ly from the tile proceeds of the sale aale Ie of arid and nd desert lands and that Chat no money I received from sale of public lands mineral and forest ore t be devoted to I the reclamation r of arid land lands While theise theae is little time ti e remaining for legislation at this session still sUil Mers Wilson the belief that the Ibm bIH i gr on today may be enacted A Similar h ilar measure ure has been prepared prep redby by Senator Hansbrough and reported to rothe the senate The receipts rec from public land sales in the arid land states amounted this thin year to about Considerable opposition was as develop d on the the ground of the growing ex cx expenditures of the present congress c and on constitutional grounds |