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Show L?.n& Bill Passes Housa. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. The house today to-day passed the general bill authorizing western states to relinquish to the government gov-ernment the scattered school sections In forest reserves and to take in exchange compact bodies of government land equal In area and value to the lands surrendered. surren-dered. Several western states have negotiated ne-gotiated for such exchanges, but none, except Idaho and South Dakota, has yet completed the selection of actual lands. |