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Show FAVORS A. DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINI Bill for Establishment of Bureau ol Mines and Mining Will Soon be Brought Up In Congress. Washington. Tho proposed establishment estab-lishment In tho department or tho In-tcrloi In-tcrloi of a bureau of mines nnd mining, min-ing, was unnnlmously, but unolllolnlly, concurred In by tho houso commltteo on mines and mining, nnd It Is understood that within a week or two tho sub-committee to which has been referred fcovcrnl bills to cstnbllsh Buch "a buornu will draft n bill to accomplish that purposo nnd toport It fnvorably to tho general committee. Tho full commltvce was nddressed on tho Biibject by former United Slates Senator William M. Stownrt of Nevada, who favored tho creation of such a bureau In tho Interior department depart-ment rather than In tho department of commerce nnd labor, because of tho natural and necessary connection It would hnvo with tho geological Bur-vcy. |