Show LAND BILL TO TOBE TOBE BE REJECTED Administration Docs Does Not Kot Favor Giving Minerals to Schools WASHINGTON May By 15 15 ByThe The Associated Press A Press A wide wide- wideSpread widespread Ide spread movement mo among western members member of ot congress designed to ta turn ever over to the states the min mm- minerals crab found on public lands grant grant- granted granted ed th them m for tor school purposes purpose will not have havo administration approval In Itt a letter tod today y to Chairman Stanfield o of the senate lands corn corn- com committee Secretary Work urged that none of the mor morn more than a dozen pending bills for tor that purpose be enacted Into law at t least until thore has s been a a thorough study of the situation The Tho move was Initiated d as a possible remedy for tor a tangle which has caused Increasing con con- con can fusion fuel contusion confusion on In many western states stales When the original grants granta of lands landa were made to the states the federal government Ic- Ic re reserved served all mineral minerai rights when minerals have bavo been discovered From time to time various tracts have bavo been withdrawn from state control Instead of turning over the mineral minerai rights to the state Sec Secretary Work Is In favor of af find find- ing finding In a way ay out o of the tho present con con con- confusion contusion fusion by requiring the tho government to make surveys aunes and determine 1 within six years Ott on land onland In which minerals actually exist In his letter to o Senator Stan Stan- Stanfield Stanfield field Stan he ho suggested also alsa that In making a 11 readjustment of or the whole situation the states be risen gIven new lands to replace thoas thoo recovered by the federal govern govern- government ment merit because Of ot the pr presence of minerals All the public lands states In- In In Interested before being admitted Into the union entered Into IntI II a compact with the tho government that they would not Interfere with the tho dl diSposition of ot the public domain within their limits wrote the tho secretary They agreed to the tho ex- ex exclusion ex exclusion of minerals In the tho grants for tor schools and other purposes The government has these lands from the states from the railroads and from all savo the miner tinder II a law that II uniform throughout th tha thu domain and It has stood the Iho teSt tut of experience unchanged In Its major provisions tor for more than SO 50 years It Jr these thue minerals and mineral minerai lands are ore granted to the tho stat states s the tho prospector will VIII be b confronted by an ownership divided between state and nation and Instead of af one law jaw extending equal opportunity to all he lie will be bo confused by a II multiplicity of ot laws as many manas manyas manya as a there are arc states In which such ouch lands arc are situated It If any mineral minerai lands are given away the funds to carrYon carry on the work ork of ot reclamation will be pro pro- pro proportionately limited The federal government has haa been very ery liberal l to the tho lands states statts the secretary de- de de declared elated having given more than acres of or public lands hands comprising school sections to the tho several seral states |