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<br />5 <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />rights in carrying out the provisions of the Treaty. First <br />.../1"1 II $1' . <br />and foremost, of course, we W31!'l1ii,,4{\ safeguard the obligations <br />~f the United States to Mexico under that Treaty; but if there <br />re one or more methods of achieving that objective and one <br />ethod infringes upon private property and contractual rights <br />and another method doesn't, but the Treaty is protected in <br />either event, we would prefer to choose that method which <br />infringes to the least extent upon private property and con- <br />tractual rights. I may say that that also is the attitude of <br /> <br />the Department of <br />ef conducting any <br /> <br />Justice, which of course will have the burden <br />,/ J <br />litigation that may be necessary as an out- <br /> <br />growth of the Treaty. <br /> <br /> <br />I think you will all agree that that is the American <br /> <br /> <br />approach. In other words, we must not use the Treaty as a pre- <br /> <br /> <br />text or a guise or an excuse to infringe upon private rights or <br /> <br /> <br />state rights or municipal rights to any ext~nt that isn't neaes <br /> <br /> <br />sary because of the Treaty, at the same time bearing in mind <br /> <br /> <br />that we ~~~ safeguard to the maximum extent all the <br /> <br /> <br />interests of both the United states and Mexico under that <br /> <br />Treaty. <br /> <br />I want to review very briefly the proposals of the <br />Imperial Irrigation District. First I want to outline them by <br />way of paraphrasing them, and then I will read some excerpts <br />from them that will clarify the points I want to mention. They <br />fall into several different categories. <br /> <br />In the firs t placeJ, there is the <br />tion and maintenance and physical control <br /> <br />questi.on of the opera <br /> <br />-,,~. <br />of ~ Imperial Dam <br /> <br />,.,. <br />'"J.. <br /> <br />,. <br />