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Show The report of the senate committee on the substitute for the house bill re- biting to the repeal of the timber culture cul-ture act is a voluminous and somewhat peculiar report,' inasmuch as it proposes pro-poses the repeal of the act of 1878, and all acts supplementary thereto, save as its operations relate to the state of Nebraska. Ne-braska. Just why Nebraska should be exempted from the operation of the repeal re-peal of the act is something that the peoplo do not understand. Nor is Tim Times in possession of data at present to explain the proposed discrimination. The senate committee report also suggests sug-gests an irrigating clause as well as a proviso that no public land shall be offered at public sale except in abandoned aban-doned military reservations and isolated iso-lated aud disconnected fractional tracts of mineral and other lands. Another feature of the report is the making of provisions for the entering of town sites iu Alaska. |