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<br />DD19u5 <br /> <br />.-"'., <br /> <br />-3~- <br /> <br />n[:.~,]ed by "nC re!')resentin-: L'.irectly their respective [:'0vernors, <br /> <br />So I "as s urpris ec1 "hen the lett ers "i thclr;:-,l li~3 California <br /> <br />repres entati veS from the Co;,r.1i ttee vas pres ented by the <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado River 30ard of Ca:afornia. The CO.::cittee irar.lediately <br /> <br /> <br />chll.nc;ed its name to the Colorar10 River B2sin States Co-.::,'ittee, <br /> <br />and reques teel Governor - Jarren, of CaliforniCl" to pers uade <br /> <br />the California ':,en '111" had been ;')articipa,tin3 in the 1/or!: of the <br />CO~ ittee to return to the COr.1.ittee; or if they refused, to <br />aL:,oint to the Co",',ittee other Ca1ifor'nin re1Jresentatives. <br /> <br />Governor ~Jarren declined, <br /> <br />At the hearin~s on S, 1175 in the sum,er of lr47 these <br /> <br />re!~resentati ves of Southern California agencies enlarged upon <br /> <br />the ar~uments they had made in the hearin~s on H. R, 5434 the <br />precee(1in:.:; year. I, for Arizona, presented the ql:estions <br /> <br />rcised by California to the Coloraclo River 3asin States Co~',;::ittee. <br /> <br />After 10n3 and uature conGideration, the Colorado River 3asin <br /> <br />States Co:,i.1ittee at a l.1eetin~: ,'It SuIt La','e Oi ty, Utah, on the <br /> <br />second day of October, unanimou,,::"y aC,opted the stater:lent nhich <br /> <br />apfJears on ;'1O'.2;e 155 of the hearin[:s on S. J, Res 145, [1nd <br /> <br /> <br />lJhich I "ould li!:e to re8(1 to y'-,u at this tl"le. iHHH"''''~HKlo <br />{,!o {} ~:. ';\0 ~~ <br /> <br />The Upper C"lorallo River 31O'.sin Com"9,ct COI':.:isslon had <br /> <br />been nec;otiatinc sinc e July, 1946; and it ac,o!')tee1 the 2,rinciples <br /> <br />enunciated in the state:'"ent "hich I have just read to you, The <br /> <br />Upper Colorado River 3asin Compact 'das si,sned in late 1843, and <br /> <br />has no" been ratifiec1 by each of the five St,tes am1 consent <br />