Show SENATOR CL CLARK LAND BILL Senator VT Y A Clark of Montana In n a abill bill bUl i on Tues Tuesday la offers 0 tiO of the problems Involved in dis M of th public domain flint flut J would be to toi i i stat states and nd ought to suit emit the i I est cast It If tho Ion ww understood c J as it I Is h here re S stated Senator pro 4 po al I to give to ooch tat tuG thO pUblic wIthin ft Its sUbject to th o ba c q c ci i l and 7 J b until thrown open to pUblic lands s for irrigation t f under government L would bo be exempt the state in ini i to cor pl te tc the li work vork on the lines Jines planned by the gO gOcr gov govi i cr m t Foret reserves wo would ld b 4 com sUbject to state controL U 44 i 1 It tho plan by Senator Clark wre adopted It would at on once e Interest state affected in the tho ron roni i trot and or f its public lands If having a burG cracy In 1 waShington WahingtOn to bo be consulted th the of 01 ie state through their au U 4 would have the power t tb say lY hOWl ho those bo be edt aDa i with them A direct re would be vested in inthe Inthe the commonwealth that would t r itt Uly demand receive the con consid sid sidi i sUCh sueh a an important trust aS it pe without S that th tho ij c ot t I state ammar with Ith all U tho lol knowing the best beet use to tot t I which lands could coula be put and realizing tho possibilities s ot of from irom thom t t I ere are better to i ij In a trust Is Ie n a department of the Iio g 1 t In Washington by ri a and sUbject Tb ro political i m from all tho other othor states The Tho worst troubles risIng in the have been due to the fact that tho most niost pow influences in incO cO had bad po no sn lal in the fhe i 7 where public lands are located t nor mol had they any idea Iden or of t the e 1 i extent and or of those lands g PO Political considerations d alone ruled I ana g so tons wore I f c to the best interests of We the peo pao r plo and the tho states most directly af il 0 1 It If each state stata were granted the lands Sn its domain the tho first would be bei betto i tto to Interest the citIzens or of each state in tho lands so acquired in their t n 1 1 tics Sand and agricultural They a fuel a concern concern about the tm arid and development or of the tho thoI thet I t states tes resources that is Impossible un dor dOl the present system ilio red tape land and drawn formalities which at It nd land transactions with the govern t f would be simplified so the tite avora 1 I who ho to a land tand i could do It prOmptly and ll I J Viewed In whatever WRY way the tho transfer t to the would be n ft long step in f tho jho directIon on of Western progress s sr r |