Show REfORM IN PUBLIC LAND LAWS TRIBUNE BUREAU HIT G Street r L I Washington Oct 10 I j President Roosevelt iu his annual mca sage to Congress will touGh but lightly on tho I subject of reform In the public land laws but will go to tiioi extent of favorliUT such modifications In the lilnl tiles as will more effectively nafejrunrd the rights or bona llde settlers and tend lo curtail the operations 01 corporations and speculators specula-tors HR will not Indorse any particular plan of reform Considerable pi ensure Is even now being hrouRht to bear to encuin the TreHldentn approval > 1 or varIous reform meuaurca but wIthout auccrai He will allow ConIeJls to finale such reform legislation l ae It may deem best Senator llnnsbrough chairman I chair-man of the Senate Public Lands commIttee commIt-tee Is aiming for a fight In defense of d lflt 11 tll the i commutnllon clause 1 of the t homestead 1 act but advocates radical modification of the llmlior and atone and desert land nclo Other prominent YvVmerners will ndvo cab u general I rovlnlon of till land laws and tho jreai illveralty of opinion will 110 doubo result In compromise IcRtalailon to far as the repeal of tho timber and stone acts Is concerned land CominIsHlon Richarils fjenernllv IndorLLii the Ideuu of Senator lIn brush and nye ho will u favorably report upon any bill which provides for tho Mile of timber on unreserved public hinds at not lcm than Its appraiHod value sales fo he made at public auction This plan wilt Inourc the Government n fair price for HH timber and leave the lands to be reforested or to be taken up by entrymen Such a law would cut I off operations of timber speculator and yet allow use of Umbor from the public domain an needed Commissioner RIchnrdti In also ready to Indorse a bill for the repeal of the com mutation chmsc of the lioinLHosul act for It IK under this net Hint thousands of acres are each year acquIred by npccttln tors and corporations In violation of tho spirit and the letter of tho law Senator TrunKhrough Will meet with avery a-very determined opposition when he undertaken un-dertaken to prevent the reptaJ of the com mutation homestead laws |