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Show LAND PUBLICATION BILL IS PASSED WASHINGTON, May 25. The senate sen-ate again has passed the bin of Senator Sen-ator Myers providing that land office notices may be published in Saturday issues of daily papers as well as in weekly newspapers, providing the daily paper is published in the vicinity of the land and is a paper of general circulation. cir-culation. For several years Senator Myers has endeavored to secure this change in the letter and several times has been able to get this bill through the senate, sen-ate, but it has invariably failed to go through the house of representatives. Several days ago, when the bill came up, Senator King and Senator Smoot of Utah objected, but withdrew their objection, ob-jection, in the belief that the bill would not pass the house. This bill has never had a hearing on the floor of the house and the grounds for objection ob-jection to it have never been stated. |