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<br />G <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />the basis for it~ <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />CHAIRMI.N HOOVER: We 11, I rather do,ubt whether we are ever <br />going to get anywhere if we start correspondence between two <br />groups here. <br />MR. EMERSON: I think if Mr. Norviel would try to explain <br />to .the Commission just where; the trouble; lies' we; might be able to <br />find a basis to solve the difficulty. It is m~ understanding we <br />definite;ly agreed upon certain fundamental principles and he is <br />now referring to this general clause which was absolutely one of <br />the fundamentals and perhaps if we strike it out: ttwreby the who le <br />structure will be upset. <br />MR. NORVIEL: I had a distinct understand, and I believe the <br />majority at least of the Commissioners understood;ye~terday after <br />Judge Davis made his Btatement of 6,500,000 acre feet, of ~. <br />divisiqn at Lee Ferry to the lower Basin, and I rejected it <br />because it in fact meant 6,500,000 to the lower division and <br />10,000,000 to the upper d,ivision. That, then, was laid a'side <br />after further discussion in which :j.t was distinctly stated the <br />rivers below Lee Ferry were to be left out of the, consideration.' <br />Then our Chairman made the statement, after looking at the tabu- <br />lation made by Mr. Davis upon which we rested as a:basis,.and said <br />6,500,000 would not take,oare of the needs of thesciutherri states', <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />including our proportion to Mexico, and suggested that we raise <br /> <br />the amount to 7,500,000 and then Upon that basis, with the same <br /> <br />!f <br /> <br />discussion that had gone before, I said I thought we could accept <br />that proposition and that is where we rested yesterday, with <br />7,500,000 acre feet at Lee Ferry to be used f~om the Colorado <br />River' without the inflow' below Lee Ferry. That was, I think, the <br /> <br />w <br />