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Show " INDIAN 0!L LEASING BILL HASREVIVEC ATTEMPT MADE TO MOOIFV MEASURE VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT LAST FALL Status of Hundreds of Prospecting Ap plications in Utah Are Involved; Applications Cancelled Washington -The house commute : on Indian affairs is to meet the earlj part of next week to consider, with a view to reporting, a modified version of the Indian oil lauds leasing bill which was vetoed by President Cool idge July 2. All the modifications made in the bill as it comes before the committee are contained in section 5. which proved to be the crux of the situation sit-uation at the time the presidential veto was given it. The bill as a whole was planned to take official cognizance of a situation sit-uation which has arisen in southeastern south-eastern Utah and elsewhere, with regard to some attempts to pros pect for oil under the mineral and oil leasing act. Various applications, a to tal of about 400, had been filed on lands which the department of the interior in-terior assumed it had the Jurisdiction to lease for prospecting purposes. About a score of the applications got to the stage of issuance of prospecting permits. Later a ruling of the attorney at-torney general said that in these instances in-stances the lands were not subject to, the leasing act inasmuch as they were within Indian land withdrawals. |