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Show BILL IS PASSED FOR s UTAH LAND DISTRICT I WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 The House today to-day maintained its record for the rapid disposition of private pension bills, 433 being be-ing passed in an hour and a half. The House passed a bill to provide for a land district in Wasatch and Uintah counties, l.'tah. The bill providing for the government of the Panama canal rone, which, among other thlriKS, abolishes the Panama Canal commission, was then considered. In explaining ex-plaining the measure. Mr. Mann (111.) said that it was not intended as a reflection on the present commission, but that it was necessary to separate the engineering problems from the administrative problems prob-lems In constructing the canal. The bill, he said, left the President authority over any of the present commissioners as consulting con-sulting engineers. The measure was still under consideration when the House adjourned ad-journed until today. |