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Show A special to the Tribune from J Washington says: ' President Roosevelt will ap-J prove a b'road-gauge rational bill for arid lands of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska and other Western States if Congress1 shall pass such : a measure, Senator Charles H. Derrick of Nebraska who is interested in the subject, says the coming ' session will produce such an irrigation law as will meet the President's ideas. Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho is of the same opinion. " Senator J. H. Millard of Nebraska and Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming are of one mind in x the belief that the present session will ; create a law ' ' for ' the redemption of 'the semi-ar:d ' wastes of the' West.1' ": ' "Within the last twenty-four hours President Roosevelt has made the positive statement to a mid West Senator that he 'woti'd approve a comprehensive' irrigation irriga-tion bill if it did not appropriate j too much money to get at tl.e 1 sentiment of the far west." j President Roosevelt is well ac- i quainted with the requirements ! of the great west, and we believe j the time is near when many concessions con-cessions will be granted to the transmississippi region. |