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Show 001 WILL FIGHT FOB IISJJ1 BILL Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, May 20. Senator Borah, author of the three-year homestead bill, has served notice on members of the senate who are trying to arrange an adjournment on June 15 that there will be no adjournment until his bill 13 finally fi-nally passed. Tho failure of the conference commit-' tee which now has charge of the bill, to reach a final agreement ls laid by Senator Borah and others to the senate conferees, Senators Smoot, Jones and Newlapds, who are holding out for insertion in-sertion In the law of amendments urged by Secretary Flshor to provide that In homesteads the entryman shall have title only to the surface of his entry and that minerals and water powers shall be reserved re-served to the government. Tho house conferees have agreed to accept ac-cept the bill olther as It passed the house or the senate but refuBo to accept the radical conservation amendments which the senate conferees are seeking to Incorporate. Incor-porate. Borah says that he fears that If there should be an agreement to adjourn June Ifith the "opponents of the homestead bill might hold the bill In conference until that date and thus kill it. He says he will not Bubmlt to such tactics. Senator Smoot ha6 prepared and will introduce a bill to grant two years' additional ad-ditional time to settlers on Uintah Indian reservation lands In which to make final payments of the purchase price. He has also Introduced a bill to reinstate as a captain in the United States army Robert N. Campbell of Salt Lake City. |