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Show HOUSE CONSIDERS THE ACQUIRING OF WHITE MTS. Washington. March 1. Under suspension sus-pension of the rules, the house took up the senate bill "for acquiring na- tional forests In the southern Appalachians Appala-chians and the White mountains." ! Tho measure is an amendment in the I nature of a complete substitute for the ! bill passed by the senate. f The bill as substituted, permits ac-quirement ac-quirement of lands in any part of the United States, where such acquieltlon can be shown to be advisable by the forest reservation commission, created 1 by it after geological survey has de- ! termined that such acquisition will promote or protect the navlglbillty of streams on whose watersheds the ; land6 lie. I |