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Show STATEMENTS ON UND MX DENIED Hj WASHINGTON, Fob. 24. Various t.' statements made in the debate in the Hj' , House yesterday on the Alaskan coal K' land bill were denied In an official H 1 1 statement Issued by Secretary of thq H'i Interior Ballrager today. Tho secre- M tary denied the statement that the H local land office in Alaska had since H January 19, 1910, been Issuing pai- H cnts to coal claims and final receipts 1 for tho samo and that more than 120 , H of those claims In tho Katalla field H alone have been proved up In that ' B time. Ho also declares to bo erronc-1 m v ous the table printed In tho record H purporting to show a list of tho coal M claims in Alaska upon which final H payment of purchase price had been B made and final receipts Issued After B explaining that no title has passed to R auy individual or corporation to an Bv ac"c of Alaska coal land, tho secre- Kj tary continues that "an att'ompt to m mako preaent capital out of tho sltu- K atlon In Alaska and misleading stato- HJj ments regarding tho -situation there H L not onI' do a manifest injustice to l Je officers of tfie department of tho H Interior who aro endeavoring to do H their duty, but also operate to retard H; t lo development of Alaska." The boc- H rry says tbat "lt l8 absurd to say R. that tho leasing bill proposed would T novo no effect upon the coal lands of B ' Alaska since they, aro all under claim," as tho cancellation of any claims would result in the land reverting re-verting to tho government and would, with the other unlocatcd coal lands, becomo subject to entry or lease under un-der the tonus of such legislation as Congress provides. |