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Show UINTAH RESERVATION OPENING Congressman Howell Introducea a Dill Fixing Method of Settlement. Congressman Howell haa Introduced Intro-duced a bill to provldo tho manner ol opening to settlement and entry and for disposing of certain landa on the Uintah reservation In Utah. It provldca that unallotted landa, ex ceptlng auch tract a may havo been let asldo a national forcat reserve, shall bo disposed of under thn general provision of tho ryiracatmd and townslto law or the United State, and ahall bo opened to acltlcmcnt and entry by proclamation, which proclamation procla-mation ahall prctcrlba tho manner In which tbeto landt may bo settled upon, occupied and entered by editions edi-tions entitled tn mnko entry thereof. No person shall bo pcrmlted to settle set-tle upon, occupy or enter any of tald lands except n prescribed In told proclamation, until after tho expiration expira-tion of sixty days from tho tlmo when tho samo aro thereby opened to settlement settle-ment and entry. That tho right of honorably dla chorged Union soldiers nnd sailors In tho civil war or Spanish or Philippine Insurrection, a defined nnd described In Section 2301 and 2.103 of tho He-vised He-vised Statute, as amended by tho act of tnrrh 1, 1901, shall not be abridged, that all lands opened to set dement and entry under this act re malnlng undisposed of nt tho cxplra lion of flvo year from the Inking effect ef-fect of tho net shall be told and ill posed of for use, under rule and reg illations to bo prescribed by tbo secretary sec-retary of iho Interior, not moro than 010 acre to any ono person In vlow that tho Indian npproprU-Hon npproprU-Hon bill contain a clause extending tho tlmo for opening tho reero six months, Mr. Howell will offor nn amendment extending tho tlmo sixty dais, or to Mny 10, |