Show LIEU LAP LANU BILL IS ISTO T TO BE FAVORABLY REPORTED cs edal to The HeraM i iWa Wa Jan 99 liThe The house j r committee today I ID D Madel to favorably his bill providing that public lands cM ulf f fy Ii y for fw Umber timber shall not be tuie m to location or selection in lieu hen of oT r pe pend and nd that selection ift C sought to he made on lands landa chiefly vt valuable able f timber they contain Irv is Ue v f forest reserves hell helland be lj and nf no bill has the approval ef of the interior department which in a report made to the public lands land committee It l the ti area of orest rese acres with the fl 0 temporary withdrawals for future Incorporation In reserve and called attention to the fact that tinder the present law ajl private within reserve be made the ts fer Nv the appropriation of OI alike area of outside of f re reserves 1 serves The tendency aad aed practice Is te to timbered lands in lieu of whether the latter are or r denuded and the experience bIt f the general Ind office 9 w that great areas M 51 valuable timber lands have liere sen acquired I fa exchange for lands eed to in reserves and which the ha been A 4 the he present time varIous railroads gr tte In forest fumei re ef of land avaU areLI ible as a Trials beels for making lieu land so a Much of this tend land is devoid of Umber but under the present laws it be D exchanged for toi valuable timber ge I HB a of the ii g te to sec ees and an f great of worthless land ever to the government in exchange for lauds lands containing valuable timber it is Ii expected the Mondell bill will prevent of these abuses |