The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-06-06

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ence report II the three year home
stead bill wa agreed to by the house
today and it believed the president
soon will sign ,e measure. Chang
es from the ori nal bill were made
bv the conferences:
This provision in the house bill was
stricken out: "That the entryman
may be absent from the land for not
more than five months in each per-
iod of one year after establishing
residence" In lieu the following
was inserted: "rhat upon filing
in the local land office notice of the
beginning of such absence, the.en-
tryman shall he entitled to contin-
uous leave of absence from the land
for period not exceeding five
months in each year after establish
ing residence, and upon the termina-
ton of such absence the entryman
shall file notice of such termina-
tion in the local land office" A pro-
vision was also added "and the per-
son committing must be at the time
citizen of the United States" The
following provision was also added:
"rhat the entryman shall, in order
to comply with the requirements of
cultivation herein provided for, cul-
tiyate not less than one-sixteentll OF
the area of his entry, beginning with
the second year of the entry, and not
less than one-eighth beginning with
the third year of the entry, and until
final proof except that in the case of
entries under section six of the ell
larged homestead laws double the
area of cultivation herein provided
shall be required, but the secretary
of the interior may, upon satisfac-
tory showing, under rules and regu-
lations prescribed by him, reduce the
required area of cultivation. Pro-
vided, that the above provision as to
cultivation shall not apply to entries
under the act of April %, 1904, known
as the Kinkaid act, or entries under
the act of June II, 1902, the reclama-
ton act, and that the provisions OF
this section relative to the home
stead period shall apply to all un-
perfected entries as we'll as entries
hereafter made upon which residence
is required. Provided, that the Sec
retary of the interior shall, within
60 days after the passage of this act,
send copy of the same to each
homestead entryman OIL record who
may be affected thereby, by mail to
his last known address, and any such
entryman may by giving notice with
in l2o days after the passage of this
act, by registered letter to the reg
lister and receiver . of the local
land office, elect to make proof
upon his entry under the law under
which the same was made without
regard to the provisions of this act. :"
The conference report leaves un-
changed the two important features
of the bill as it passed the house, the
provisios for a three year homestead
and fora five months leave of absence
in each year for homestead settlers.
The leave of absence provision is
modified in form. The amendment
relative to leave of absence was made
with view of making the charact ter
of the leave and the conditions under
which it should be exercised, clear.
The amendment requiring citizen
ship under commuted entries uni
form with the requirements under
other entries was made at the sug-
gestion of the secretary of the inter-
ior. The bill provides definite and
uniform minimum requirement of
cultivation applicab le to all home
steam entries except reclamation ell
tries and Kinkad entries in Neb ras-