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Show Important Measures on Public Lands.- Washington, December 15. The Senate committee on public lands held their first meeting and took up the measures referred by the Senate and referred them to subcommittees. sub-committees. These include bills for the -repeal of the pre-emption, timber culture, and desert land act, for the forfeiture of certain land grants, and providing for taxation of railroad lands, all of which have heretofore been published. It is the purpose of the committee to have some of the important of these measures, a majority of which have already been passed upon in previous sessions, ses-sions, reported at an early date, placed on the calendar, and brought speedily to the point of final action. . |