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Show Exemption Act Is LikelyToGetVeto ' By a most extraordinary legislative legis-lative procedure, the house ot representatives, on motion of Representative Rep-resentative Murdock of Arizona this Thursday took up and passed the senate bill, passed by the upper up-per branch of congress ten days ago, waiving the requirement ol assessment work on mining claims for the current year, ending July 1. The bill now goes to the president. presi-dent. Its fate rests with him. Last year, in reluctantly agreeing agree-ing to sign a similar bill, President Presi-dent Roosevelt had a distinct understanding " with the house mines committee that if he signed that bill they would not again ask him to approve any moratorium on assessment work. The president presi-dent reduced this agreement to writing in a letter to the house mining committee, and because oc that agreement the house committee commit-tee refused to act on the senate bill when it came over from the other end of the capitol. If the president vetoes the exemption ex-emption bill, as we fully expect him to do since he is more or less honor-bound to that policy, there is going to be one grand rush to get assessment work done on a lot of claims in Beaver county and an equally big rush of claim-jumping claim-jumping where such work is not clone by July 1, this year, in com-pliance com-pliance with .the old law. |