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<br />~i0 <br /> <br />such a structure will be the United States of America by reason of its <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />opportunity to secure adequate funds at an early date, but to predicate <br /> <br />this whole compact upon the building of such a structuro doos not meet with <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />favor, insofar as r am advised, within the upper statos; not 1"lith tho idea <br /> <br />of attempting the construotion, which we wish to facilitate,- we wish to <br /> <br />hasten, - but in attempting to make it a condition precedent to operation <br /> <br />of this compaet it may result in the defeating not only of the compact <br /> <br />but the early construction of the stn1Cture itself and it seems to me un- <br /> <br />wise and untimely and dangerous to the vory adoption of this compact ~to <br /> <br />incorporate any suoh provision, <br /> <br />I have previously statod that r see no objoction toa general resolution, <br /> <br />aside from the compact, (expressing my view at least) that the construction <br /> <br />of flood oontrol works somewhere for the protection of that lower country <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />sh?uld proceed with all due dispatch, but to incorporate: that as a conditio~ <br /> <br /> <br />precedent within thi~ compact is something that.1 for'my part woulo.not <br /> <br /> <br />care to consent to. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />CH.li.IRMt\N HOOVER: l!l!'. Carpenter, if you wil;lallowme to become a <br />Californian a minute instead of a Chairman, 1 \V(~uld like to present one <br /> <br />phase of this which we have never considered and it is, 1 think, the crux <br /> <br />of the ~iety of the people in the lower river. At the present moment <br /> <br />they are taking the whole of the low water flow 'of the Colorado River <br /> <br />into their diversion. They feel that this pact ~Iill destroy any rights <br /> <br />whieh they have for the maintenance of that min~um flow; that pending <br />the period when storage is erected and there is 'protection for an even <br />flow of water, there is here an intor-regnum by whioh they aro deprived <br />of any r~ghts they might have as against the Upper Basin to maintain tl . <br />present flow.of water. In other words, if this ;pact should be ten years <br />delayed, or five years delayed, - if the constr~ction should be also' <br />I <br />delayed of adequate storage or control works, there would be a per~od in <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />