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<br />- !- <br /> <br />099-1928 <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />January 18, 1944' <br /> <br />ANALYSIS OF S. 1519 <br /> <br />!NT RODUCED IN T HE SEf:.~ATE OF THE <br />UNITED STATES, NOVEMBER 9, 1943 <br />BY SENATOR MoCLELLAN, BEING A BILL <br /> <br />1fT 0 PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND OPE RAT ION ,OF FLOOD-CON'l'ROL <br />AND NAVIGA.TION IMPRQVEivlENTS, INCLUDING DAMS, RESERVOIRS, AND ALLIED <br />STRUCTURES, IN THE Msms OF THE ARKANSAS AND WHITE RIVERS. AND FOR THE <br />DISPOSIT ION OF SURPLUS ELECTRIC EtJERGY GEr~TED BY THE 'FEDERAL FLOOD- <br />CONTROL AND NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BASn;rs OF SUCH RIVERS." <br /> <br />On Deoember 11, 1943, f'onner Governor, Ralph L. Carr of Colorado, made three <br />radio addresses frQll Denver on the above desoribed proposed federal legislation. <br />These addresses were made over KOl\., KLZ and KMYR. They are here reproduced. <br /> <br />Clifford H. Stone, Direotor <br />Colorado 'Water Conservation BoaJ'~ <br /> <br />KOA. - Saturday, Deoember 11, 1943 <br /> <br />THE LATEST THREAT ON THE ARKARlAS <br /> <br />On two oooasions in the past three years it was my duty as a public senant <br />to warn the people of my own state and also of the remainder of' the West of plans <br />whioh threatened their ourrent prosperity and their future eoonany. In eaoh case <br />the immediate objeotive was the Arkansas River Basin. But the problem became <br />greater when it was realized that the Arkansas was merely the testing ground for <br />an aggressive oampaign aimed against state oontrol, of every river drainage in <br />the oountry. . <br /> <br />And now as a' private oitizen I raise my voioe in protest against a third <br />attempt by Congressional Aot, more subtle, more dangero;lS and more far-reaohing <br />than either of those others. . The Basins of the Arkansas and White Rivers are <br />to be given over to the oontrol of' the Army in peaoetime by the building of dams, <br />reservoirs and allied structures under oonditions where irrigation is made <br />speoif'ioally subjeot to navigation and flood oontrol. <br /> <br />Colorado's stake in this apparently endless of'fensiw by Federal agenoies <br />to seize the oontrol of' the Arkansas. has been 1Dmeasurably inoreased by a de- <br />oision of' the United States Supreme Court on Monday of' this week which olosed <br />the 42-year old lawsuit between Kansas and Colorado. <br /> <br />