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Show UIB TO SUPPORT SOLDIER SETTLEMENT Delegation to Make An-j swer to Attacks on the Mondell Land Bill. I Special to The Tribune. j i WASHINGTON, June 24. Arrange- 1 menty were made today for members of ! ' the Utah committee which is here work- ing fur the passage of the Mondell sol- ; j dler settlement bill to appear before the ! i housH public lands committee tomorrow I j or Thursday to speak in support of the I measure. Hearings before the house com- : mittee closed last week, but the com- j I mittee decided today to h-ar the Utah ' , delegation, whuse testimony will be the final argument in favor of the bill to be i incorporated in the voluminous testimony covering nearly a month o hearings. I The l'tah committee has been making a study of the arguments in opposition to the bill that have been presented and will answer thorn. The Utah delegation, composed of former Governor William Spry. William L. Hansen and J. Leo Meelian, spent the entire afternoon today with William E. Smythe and Harry T. Cory of the interior department, who are in charge of soldier settlement plans under un-der Secretary Lane. They presented Utah's plans and proposed projects and were assured that they would receive favorable fa-vorable consideration "if tho Mondell bill was passed by congress. The officials of the interior department - expressed themselves as being most fa-! fa-! vorahly Impressed by the Utah plans, which they indorsed. Despite the fact that there will be a strenuous effort to sidetrack the bill in the lower house, its champions still are confident that a bill will be passed and that a large part of the present opposition will be overcome by modifications proposed. Colonel J. G. Scrugbam of Nevada and Mr. Meehan will go to New York the latter lat-ter part of the week in an effort to enlist the support of national officers of the American legion. , -f |