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Show AMENDMENTS MEET APPROVAL OF HOUSE COMMITTEE; TO STUDY BILL Entirely New Section Four Is Writtetj Into Colton School Land Measure And Eill Amended To Give Appeal Rights Washington, D. C. The Colton school land bill, with certain modifications modifi-cations suggested by the subcommit- tee that has been studying the bill for a week, was considered by the house public lands committee, but no action was taken. As the bill was read, its provisions generally seemed to appeal to nem-bers nem-bers of the committee, but Chairman Sinnott remarked that the bill is so important and some of the suggested suggest-ed changes are equally important that he wanted time to study it further fur-ther before his committee acts. The chairman gave assurance that the bill would be brought up again, but no definite day was set for resuming consideration. con-sideration. Several important changes chang-es in the bill were suggested by the subcommittee, consisting of Representative Represen-tative Colton, Morrow, Winters, Letts and Driver. . Section two of the bill, which seeks to impose a limitation on the time within which the government may question ques-tion a state's title because of the alleged al-leged mineral character of school sections, sec-tions, is amended in two particulars; the government is to be restricted only in its right to institute a suit in any court, and the period within which it may be started is made six years, instead of three years, as provided in the Colton bill. As originally written, the bill would have imposed this limitation limi-tation on proceedings in the interior department as well as the courts, but all reference to departmental activities activi-ties was stricken out by the subcommittee. subcom-mittee. The subcommittee also struck out the first par section three of the bill, making reference to rules of practice in school lands cases, j An entirely new fourth section has I been written into the hill, prescribing the manner in which the states may : appeal to the courts from adverse rul- ings from the land department, the 1 original court appeal provision being ' abandoned. |