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<br />41 <br /> <br />. <br />, <br /> <br />is that there isn't any harm in saying that there will be a treaty <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />there may be a treaty. <br />CHl,IRMl,N HOOVER: About, this same clause as to whether that <br /> <br />wouldn't possibly open. up a way to Mexico to say that she had <br /> <br />rights and that we want to wrong those rights., <br />JUDGE SLOAN: There being no adjustment by international <br /> <br />agreement of that situation, California wi ~l be practically com- <br /> <br />pelled to delivery some water to Mexico in order to enjoy her <br /> <br />rights. <br />CHAIRMAN HOOVER: It comes to this: That if they raise that <br /> <br />question'as to the present contract that exists down there, if <br /> <br /><liI <br /> <br />. that is brought into discussion anywhere in this compact, we give <br />value to it which we must keep away from wi th all, our m~ght. hnd <br /> <br />therefore we bette~ keep awful ~tiil because th~ infernal contract <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />they have calls for abDut 10,000 acre feet~ ,It is one Df those <br /> <br />prictical things that has to work itself out because they are as <br /> <br />busy as bees trying to get away from that, and time will get them <br /> <br />away because they cantt expand and dev~lop in this basin without <br /> <br />getting their canal. And we are in a hole if ;we even attempt to <br />discuss, the situation here',. <br /> <br />JUDGE SLOl,N: I think it is wise if it. can be done without <br /> <br />injustice to l~rizona, for instance,or Califol?nia, in their <br /> <br />relation to the Upper States. The question'i's vyhen half of the <br /> <br />f <br /> <br />burden is to begin; under the terms of the propos~darticle ,it <br />can't begin until tho~e rights are established and probably by <br />international agreement. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CHl,IRMl,N HOOVER: That is the intention. fJocause. if we <br /> <br />established it now, we have established an acknowl(3dgment of <br />