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Show WALSH, .BLL, TO 3ELL. , f . , COAL. LAND TO 8TV.PAUL. RAILWAY FOUGHT HARD Washington, March, 23. Vigorous opposition developed In the Senao today to-day to the bill proposing to sell to tlip Itepubllc Coal company a subsidiary or tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, tho coal rights of 2000 acres of land iii Montana. Senators Norrls, Fall and Poin-doxter Poin-doxter attacked tho measuro as special spe-cial legislation. They said, howover they favored gcnornl legislation ut this sfcsslon of congress which would open tho coal resources of the coua-'try. coua-'try. Senator Walsh, urging tho passage of tho bill, said ho believed th opeo-pie opeo-pie of tho west had como to favor the leasing of mineral .lands If that whs tho only way tho paralysis xqvf obtaining In tho mining lndustrylcould bo curod. That proposal, ho Said, would bo fully dlbcussed when th,e general coal and bill and tho Alaska coal bill wero brought up. 7 |