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Show BILL FIXES PRICE OF LAND TOO LOW WASHINGTON, March 5. Representative Represen-tative James Sherman, New Tork, chairman chair-man of the Indian Affairs committee of the House of Representatives, had a conference today with the President regarding re-garding the bill providing for the opening open-ing to settlements of 4C6.000 acres of land in the Roseburg reservation, South Dakota. By the terms of the measure the land may be sold to settlers for not less than 53 an acre, the amount of the purchase price to be paid In five annual installments, install-ments, the lands not sold under the first offer to be allotted at Si an acre. President Roosevelt Informed Mr. Sherman Sher-man that he was opposed to the terms of payment fixed in the bill as it passed tho House. In fact, his opposition to the price of the land as specified in the House and is so strong that if the measure were passed by Congress in that shape he would veto it. It has been shown by excellent authorities that the land Is worth an average price of at leaBt $6 an acre; some of it is worth as much as $25 an acre. |