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Show f 0!LLfiEifuEO j AM E.'i DM ENTO MEET APPROVAL OF HO'JSE COMMITTEE; TO STUDY E.'LL Entirely New Section Four Is Written Into Colton School Land Measure And Bill Amended To Give Appeal RighU Wellington. D. C The Colt.ra school land bill, v.ith certain mod Locations Lo-cations suggested !,y the subcommittee subcommit-tee that has been studying the bill W a week, was eonsiV- r. J by the hou:e public lands comii.Iaoe, but to aclirn was taken. As the bill was read, its provision.! generally seemed to appeal to Mem bers of the committee, but Chairn.au Smnott 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 j would be brought up again, but no I definite day was set for resuming con- I 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 ... 1LO iiiiL iu institute a suit m 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 ihe first par section three of the bill, making reference to rules of ni-nctico in school lands cases. An entirely new fourth section has been written into the bill, prescribing the manner in which the states may appeal to the courts from adverse rul-j rul-j ings from the land department, the original court appeal provision being tbandoned. |