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<br /> <br />i <br />A .uit between tbe StJ/.te. i. but a 8ubtitute for war. It ill <br />tbe last resort, land Mould not be resorted to until all avenue8 <br />of .ettlement b.ll compact bave been exbau8ted. It baa boon 8Ug- <br />gested tbat tbe! Supreme Court 8bould announce tbe principle <br />tbat no .uit ~tween Stat... would be entertained witbouf a <br />preliminary .bowlng tbat reasonable efforts bad been made by <br />tbe complaining State to compose tbe differences between it and <br />tbe defendant S~ate by mutual agreement or inter.tate com pad. <br />It would appear tbat the rule of settlement by treaty of Inter- <br />national dispnt... over river. common to two nation. should <br />likewise apply :to .ettlements of controversies present or 1'0.- <br />sible, bet'ween *ates of the Union. <br /> <br />The objeet !of the present legislation is to fotlow the inter- <br />national principle of settlement. <br /> <br />1~'j'ER~'l'ATE CO)'~I'_\C'J'ti RESPECTING l'~E 01<' WA'fEUS OJ.' l~TEn.:.ffATl\: <br />Rlnms. <br /> <br />"-hile, as 1"e have already observed, various of the Stat... <br />have settled th~ir ('ontrovel'RieK reHIJf'ctin~ houlldHI'i(l~. fisheries, <br />etc., b.v interstate ('ompaet or by C01H'lU'feut t:;tate h~~hdation, <br />having the sam~ effeet, this method of settlement of pending or <br />thrpatpned tonf;r()\'ersies rel-lpc('ting tile 1Il'l(> and di/iitribution of <br />the waters of ip,terstate Htt-ealllR for inigation and othf'r bene- <br />ficial purposes, ,has not been availed of. '1'1", right of adjoining <br />.Hates to the use and henefit of the wate" of the streams common <br />to both States haH hr-en ('onsid{lred hy tlw (,0111't in the !'fiSe of <br />Kansas v. Colorado (lfo\ri U. ~.. 12;");' 20G U, 8., 4H), in whieh <br />('aRC it WfH\ hplO that the reRpflctiH' t4wtp!'( were eadl pntitled <br />to nn ("'(Jnitnhl~l-portion of the waters of the common 1;'\,(>1', the <br />extf.'nt of th{" u~ in PReh Htate to he deh'I'miu("a npon the fads <br />and rh'('llIlHltnntPH of pl.H'h pnrtj(,\llul' ('Uloi(', <br /> <br />In the alH)1'('.mentioned CURe the right of the lJnited States <br />to tlw Ui'l{'J of t1U! wat.t-"l'R of the westprn streams was also ron. <br />sid"I'(>(1 and detl'rJlliIll'd (Pi', H7-na \. <br /> <br />.\0 el}uital~le apportionment 01' allocation of the uoo and <br />dil'ltrilmtion of ;the watPfR of '\"f~Rtt~rn int.erstate Rtream:;; mH,y he <br />hest aceomplh;:h:ed through the efforts of the 8tate~ l'epI'eRf'llted hy <br />('OmmiRSiOlI('I'R full,\' H('qllaiuh.d with the facts awl the t-(ufI'onnd- <br />iug' t'onditions'luR wpll ll~ with the futlU'(' pO~l!'ihilitiffi of u!o\e of <br />",ah~l' from thell'drealllR, <br /> <br />Prilltiples IOf jHt~ruational law fne. Hpplieahle to tl\p n~e <br />and distributio 1 of watel':O; of hltel'Htatt' :-:tl'('aUlf.<, amI :\I'l IvgaHlr<: <br />compacta bf'twet.'1l the ~tate~, "the l'ult~ of tlt'l'i~ion if;: Dot to he col. <br />lected from the! deri~ions of either Rtate, hut i~ one, if we mHY HO <br />8penk, of an iuterllutioJlnl ('haraete{'.~' (lJllrtett ". Hilk. 11 Pet., <br />1, 2:l.) <br /> <br />[ 11 ] <br />