Show DOUBLES DOUBLE'S SIZE OF ARID HOMESTEADS Bill Allowing Acres of Non-Irrigable Non Lands Passes V IDAHO IS ELIMINATED No residence Required When Water For Domestic Fur Pur Purposes purposes pur- pur poses Is Not Obtainable Republican St Special v Washington April 15 Senator 15 Senator Smoot this afternoon succeeded In Securing securing se Se- curing passage of ot his bill authorizing home homesteads tea s to the extent of ot acres instead of or acres in arl antl semiarid semi semi- arid regions The state of ot Idaho was eliminated from the bill at at the the suggestion sug sug- estIon of oC Senator Heyburn who explained ex ec- ex- ex that his state is practically all ill within the Irrigable area The fhe bill as It passed passel authorizes the tho sc secretary of ot the interior in his discretion discretion dis dis- Its Its- to permit the homesteading of f acres of or land In arid an and semiarid semi semi- arid states where such lan land 1 Is Is non non- an and it is further provided that residence V shall not bo be required where sufficient water for domestic purposes is S not obtainable The Tho provisions of or tho the dry farming bill ill which pa passed ed the senate some time ago ugo were incorporated In the measure as IS it I passed the senate toda today It I Is understood the lie house committee on public lands Is favorable to this consolidated con con- Smoot Smoot-Mondell Smoot bill bi and It will viii bo ho reported to the house shortly after V it comes from the tile senate Sal Saline mo Lands Bill Hi PO Postponed Senator Sutherland toda today appeared I before the senate committee on public lands ands an and requested that further consideration con con- of his bill hi to construe the Utah enabling act so far as It I relates to 0 saline lands bo ho postponed postpone until after aCer the decision lon of or th the Utah courts in Interpreting t the meaning of or that clause shall shaH b be handed down Tho The sen sea senators senator's senators senator's ator's cuter's bill l provides that tho the University of or Utah shall have saline lands In addition ad ad- ut- ut V dillon to acres aCles specifically granted but in view of ot tho the fact that steps have been boon taken shell towards securing lug Ins a 0 Judicial Interpretation as to lo the tho terms of or the tho measure In this regard I It i was vas deemed best to find out lust just ju t what the enabling act means menns before proceeding to secure legislation which on may b bo bl proved to bo be unnecessary The Tho 1 win will wit po postpone hu uno to matter n until b by Senator Sutherland to 1 It up o I V T |