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Show PLAN TO RECLAIM OVERFLOWED LANDS WASHINGTON. Jan 1" -An exten sive plan for reclamation of swamp and overflowed lards wi'l be considered at an earlv meeting of the Senate i om mi tree on Public Lands. The ,heme is advanced in a bill introduced hv Senator Sen-ator I l.'pp. which provides for the es tablishment of a ''drainage fund'' from all money received from the sale of pub lie lands in Alabama. Arkansas, Flor ida, Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Louisiana, Michigan. Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis souri. Ohio and Wisconsin, except the 'i per cent set aside bv law for educational and other purposes. I'nder the bill the Secretary of the Interior is directed to make eam:na tions and surveys for cons' rue t ion it works for the drainage of swamp land and to report to ('ongress on or before Julv 1 each year as to the resul's. |