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Show WOULD Wit 1314 KMT II Resolution Also Brought Be- j fore American Mining Congress. j . i PHOENIX. Dec. fl. Resolutions introduced intro-duced today before the seventeenth annual an-nual session of the American Mining congress con-gress request that the legal requirement of assessment work on mining claims be wai i ed for 19H. , Another icsolution appeals to the state department at Washington to take steps to assure free shipment of coppoi to ncunal ports of Kurope. The resolution sets 1 forth that the action of heiligernt gov- ernments in interfering with :-opner ship- 1 merits has adversely affected half a million mil-lion people in this country, who were dependent de-pendent upon tho copper Industry for a livelihood. Proposed leasing by the government of mineral lands in the public domain was the principal tonic of discussion today. A mtper prepared by -Senator John F. Shaf-ruth Shaf-ruth 01 Colorado and read In his absence before the congress started tho discus-' discus-' si on. Senator Sha froth contended in his paper pa-per that a leasing system by the national government, creating the relation of landlord land-lord and tenant with the citizens of a state or territory, was inconsistent with the American form of government, K adopted, he predicted, it would bo a failure. Senator Shafroth added that tho cost of i administering the leasing system would j be four times the income from royalties. |