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Show Proposed Homestead feill 1 , ' Is Disappoletinglpo anM No Relief is Given-to the Bench Homesteader Who Finds itj Impossible to. Live! On a Dry Farm for Fourteen Months Contihv jO.usly. It is Suggested That Action fce Taken Immediately to Apprise the Utah Delegation of the Immediate Needs. on Public Lands : Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United Statates of America Ameri-ca in congress assembled, that all settlers under the homestead laws of the United States upon the agricultural public lands in the former Uintah Indian Reservation, Res-ervation, in the State of Utah, opened to settlement by executive exec-utive order on the fourteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and five,, who have resided or shall hereafter reside upon the; tract entered in good faith for' the period required by existing j law, shall be entitled to a patent pat-ent for the land so entered up-jon up-jon the "payment to the local i land officers of the usual, customary cus-tomary fees, and no other or further charge of anv kind kind whatsoever shall be required re-quired from such settler to entitle en-title him to a patent for the land covered by this entry. (The bill further provides that! the right to commute shall bi governed by t present existing! laws.) j Below is printed an outline of a bill introduced by Senator Reed Smoot in the senate, December Dec-ember 21, providing for free homesteads on the former Uinta Uin-ta Indian reservation, by a residence re-sidence on entries for a period of five years. The proposed bill does not alter the present act providing for commutation proofs. That part of the bill providing provid-ing fpr free homesteads is exactly ex-actly what a great maii3T of the homesteaders want, but to the binch homesteader it is disappointing disap-pointing that no relief is given f.r the settlers who have filed on homesteads, where it has been impossible up to this time, to get water, Furthermore there is no probability of securing water within a short time ' at least, generally speaking. The bill is not what the people peo-ple had hoped for and exected, and its terms are a bitter disappointment dis-appointment to hundreds of settlers, who have found it absolutely ab-solutely impossible to remain on their entries for fourteen months continuously. . When here during last summer sum-mer Messrs. Smoot and Howell thought some relief could be secured. Thev have expressed themselves along the same line ! since then, and there is but one conclusion that can be drawn: Senator Smoot has taken care of the free homestead feature in his to bill, but has overlooked overlook-ed the benchers, many of whom have already complied unto the spirit of the homestead law as much as those more fortunate in the securing of water, ami the Record believes, unintentionally. uninten-tionally. The Record has received main' suggestions that the Reservation Res-ervation "gets busy" and raise enough money for some one to take this matter up unto the Utah delegation. Such a person per-son must be fortified with sufficient suf-ficient data to lay . the matter before those, who are in a position posi-tion to help, in an intelligent manner. There is but little time left for a general concerted concert-ed action , as congress again convenes on the 5th of January. However, there is enough to attempt to secure an amendment amend-ment to the bill before it passes the senate and comes up in the house. The Record suggests each I community gets out a subscription subscrip-tion list, each subscriber to in-Idicate in-Idicate whom he wishes to go. j Send in your lists to the Re-con Re-con and the amount of money you have on hand. If this is done, do it before next Friday so that the man's name can be published, and then send him your collections. In this way he can be on his journey by a week from Monday.' In the senate of the United States, December 1, 1010, Mr. Smoot introduced the following follow-ing bill, which was read twice and reffered to the Committee s |