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Show OIL LANDS LEASING BILL LIKELY TO PASS By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Although the "oil lands leasing bill," which opens government gov-ernment territory to private lessees, was criticized upon the Moor of the senate today. to-day. Senator PIttman of Nevada, who has charge of the measure, declared the bill did not aid the Standard Oil company o other monopolies. "This section," he said, "like that in the potash bill, provides that locarors may combine to transport, refine or market mar-ket oil if no one of the claimants has an interest of more than 10 yer cent in. tiie association. This matter was very carefully care-fully threshed out in I He potash bill. We agTeed there would be no danger of monopoly if the limitation was made. "The committee desires to prevent the refinery from controlling the oil lands, and I think this bill, as amended, prevents pre-vents the monopoly we have been fieht-in fieht-in against for four years and also opens the door to the organization of mutual associations." The bill will he voted upon Monday. |