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<br />little further, please. Mr. Tipton, you are then stating <br />to the committee that in your opinion if the United states <br />wanted to use and reuse this water to such an extent that <br />500,000 or 750,000 acre-feet of this water would not be of <br />any value for irrigation purposes as delivered under the <br />schedules of Mexico, we would have a right to do it? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir. <br /> <br />SENATOR Dm'rnEY. I did not hear you. <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir; I do state to the committee, <br />that that is my opinion. It is not my own view, Senator, <br />that the amount of return flow that Mexico will be re- <br />ceiving will be of unusable quality. As Senator McFarland <br />has said two or three times here, there will be some of <br />this water that will be of fairly good quality, and it <br />will dilute the other water which will come from central <br />Arizona. I think that I should go into the central Ari- <br />zona situation in order to make that a little plainer, <br />because that water will not be of good quality. <br /> <br />SENA TOR DOWNEY. <br />just settle what we <br />under the treaty. <br /> <br />Yes, but, Mr. Tipton, first let us <br />think is the legal right of Mexico <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOWNEY. <br />treaty does not give <br />water we deliver her <br />use? <br /> <br />And you are very positive that the <br />any guaranty to Mexico that the <br />shall be of a quality that she shall <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir. Understand, I am not an <br />attorney. I cannot appraise the legal rights of Mexico <br />under the treaty. However, I did have the privilege <br />of participating very actively in the negotiations, and <br />I can say of my own knowledge that this question was a <br />major question, and that Mexico understands very thoroughly <br />what the language of the treaty means. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOWNEY. Now, Mr. Tipton, there is no such <br />phrase as this: That Mexico agrees to take the 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet regardless of its quality or usability? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. No, sir; certainly not. <br /> <br />-28- <br />