And I give notice now that when this mejsure is being discussed by sections. I shall offer amendments which will exempt from the operations of this bill the arid lands west of the one hundredth meridian. lands which are absolutely worthless without irrigation. that would not bring for school or any other purpose five cents an acre if they were placed on the public market today. I shall ask these lands be given to the States. and to be set apart in the Territories to be given to them whenthey shall become States. so that those who emigrate to the West in future years may. instead of meeting a vast wilderness of nonagricultural lands. find homes prepared for them through the proper expenditure of the proceeds of these arid lands by the governments of the States in which they are situated.
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