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Show The Texas Live Stock Association. Austin, Texas, January 14. Yesterday's session of the Texas Live Stock Association was taken up with the consideration of reports re-ports submitted by the committee on publio lands. After some modifications the report was finally adopted by a close vote. It condemns con-demns the present state of the land board for its vacillation and failure to enforce the land laws, and recommends that the lands be classified and leased as required by law, asserts that only 3,503,033 aores out of thirty millions of the publio lands have been leased, showing a loss of one million dollars to the taxpayers, and declares that the land should be sold only to actual settlers, and that the greatest safeguards should be thrown around the land polioy so as to prevent pre-vent acquisition of land by foreign companies. com-panies. The report also reoommends the most liberals terms towards farmer-emigrants. farmer-emigrants. The convention endorsed the doctrine that cattle sanitary measures and quarantine , arrangement should be under national . control. One hundred delegates were appointed to the Denver convention, and thirteen to the Chioago convention .- |