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Show CHANGES IN I LAND LAWS Committee Recommends Measures to Remedy the Existing Abuses. WASHINGTON. Feb. ll.-The Public Lands committee, which has been considering con-sidering the a Jvirabiiity of changes in tlie lurid laws, has completed Its report, after sessions occupying the last two weeks. The report will be submitted to the President at once. It makes Important Import-ant recommendations designed to remedy existing abuses. The abuse and evasion of the timber ami stone act. whose repeal or sweeping modification has been urged repeatedly In Government rt'ixirts. and the commutation commuta-tion clause of the homestead law. are discussed, and It Is believed that the re-ptal re-ptal of the former and the modification of the latter so as to require a prolonged and substantial residence on the homestead home-stead acquired, instead of the present short jwriod. are recommended. The question of ccntrol of the grazing lands of thu Government Is considered at length. It is estimated that there are 3(0,000.000 acres of land in this cduntry apparently tit onlv for grazing purposes, and the commission has. made recommendations cii sinned to prevent the constant destructive de-structive work perpetruted on these lands bv trespassers and to prevent the fre-qiifnt fre-qiifnt conflicts over public grazing lands rmong different classes of stockmen. One" of the recommendations considered by the commission, and which, it Is said, the commission has approved in substance, sub-stance, is that the land laws and their administration be left in the hands of the Interior department. Another provides for Congressional legislation turning over the grazing privileges on the public domain to the Department of Agriculture with ample safeguards and protection to the actual settler. |