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Show BORAH'S AMENDMENT TO HOMESTEAD BILL Special to Tlie Tribune. WASHINGTON July u Scnntor Borah today Introduced n bill supplementing supplement-ing the three-year homestead bill, providing provid-ing that rights of an ontryman under the old law shall not be prejudiced by his failure to elect under which not ln completes com-pletes ills proof. The bill also provides that eutrymeu under the old law shall bo relieved from the cultivation requirement of the now law as to th second .year. 1ml must show cultivation of one-eighth of their land at tho time of offering proof The Interior department I. disposed to iotiHtrilo the law strictly as against those who entered under the old law and Borah'a bill 1c intended to head off such interpretation Borah will submit his bill us an amendment to ono of the big appropriation ap-propriation bills nnd expects 11. to pass. |