Show SH 1 IS it mit I 1 II 11 TOO IF KM I 1 M CIS 14 washington 1 I C april 15 concerned over the growing tendency of the interior deportment to restrict the enla enlarged bom estea I 1 act i number of western members hive recently engaged in spirited arguments with secretary I 1 usher latter in refusing to designate certain areis are is as eligible to entry under the tile enlarged homestead act tho the new secretary bided hla hi refus on the if 4 thit he be did not believe it possible ble for or a settler to conform to the law because of the character of the land or 0 r on account of climatic conditions another denial dental was based baaed on the fact that the annual rainfall aas greatly in excess of the aberago and the land could not hardly be classed as arid arl it these and simil ir reasons for declining to designate area areas tor for entry under the acre act leads to the suspicion thit that the new secretary intends to jealously guard the public domain from the standpoint of tho the average easterner it Is the intention of the western member members to insist upon a strict interpretation of the law and to protest against further refusals upon other grounds not contemplated by the act alt |