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Show j AMENDED LAND LAWS Senate Action Last Week on Number Of Important Bills A dispatch from Washington an- L- L.yA) nounccs that tho senato has passed ' tho Warren hill providing that lands within tho stato of Wyoming withdrawn with-drawn or classified as oil lands shall bo subject to entry under the public pub-lic land lavs and to selection by the I '; stato, with a reservation to the Unl- f '' tod Stntos of tho oil and gns. ',, Tho Smoot bill was passed amend- iC ing tho Caroy act by providing that ''". If actual construction of reclamation ' ,i works Is not begun within threo V years after tho segregation of tho C. lands, the secretary of tho Interior ' ' may rostoro tho landB to tho public dsroaln; also tho Smoot bill to validate vali-date pending homestead entries made 1 , In good faith prior to Sept. 1, 1911, under Uo provisions of the enlarged homestead laws by persons who be-foro be-foro making such enlarged entries had acquired not more than 160 acres of land under tho old homestead law. The Borah bill providing that lands In the stato of Idaho withdrawn or classified as phosphate or oil lands shall be subject to selection by the state under indemnity nnd other, land grants with a reservation to the United States of tho phosphate and oil, also was passed by tho senate. The senato passed the bill previously previ-ously passed In tho houso authorizing tho secretary of tho Interior to sell fire damaged timber on the public lands outside, of the national forests tho proceeds of tho Bales of such timber tim-ber lands embraced In existing claim to be paid to tho holders of such claims after deducting the expense of (he sale. |