Show SWAMP REClAMATION PROPOSED BY LANE Washington June 1 14 Secretary Lane nc today submitted a a. recommendation tion to Congress for a law authorizing authorising the drainage o and reclamation by the United States of ot public swamp and ando o overflowed erf lowed lands In any state or terri ter ter- ri tory While the reported measure Is 16 de designed do- do sl signed primarily for the reclamation of ot public lands It authorizes the Inclusion in iii th the drainage projects under sped sped- specified cl- cl fied fled conditions of or state or privately owned swamp samp land contiguous to the public land or located in the same drainage e basin The Tho measure Is comprehensive and In some degree dee analogous to tho the I tion act passed In 1902 for the irrigation tion of or arid land It includes however several Improvements on that act suggested sug sug- b by experience In tho the operation of ot the law Mr Lane said todo today that the enactment enact enact- ment mont of ot tho the measure Into law would be a t notable stop In the reclamation of ot public lands and In the establishment of ot homes and farms on areas now uninhabited uninhabited habited and worthless I I I I |