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14 <br /> 0 <br /> O <br /> m <br /> 0 <br /> flood control, and as a means of affording facilities that <br /> would lead to a settlement of this controversy; and when we m . <br /> proposed to make an application to the proper agencies at <br /> 0 <br /> Washington at that time the relief emergency was in effect, <br /> and we applied first to the Public Works Administration. 70 <br /> There was a threat made by counsel representing the <br /> State of Kansas in our then pending litigation to go into l <br /> court either in that suit or in another and oppose the con- <br /> struction of the Caddo* Reservoir, unless it was to be used <br /> as a means of resolving this litigation, and after various <br /> conferences pursuant to that threat, we had meetings at <br /> Wichita, Topeka and in Washington. <br /> The stipulation of 1953 to which the Chairman has re- <br /> ferred was drafted with the joint cooperation of the two <br /> states in asking for the construction of the reservoir. <br /> Pursuant to that, , formal applications were made by both <br /> states to the proper agencies at Washington for authorisation <br /> of the project, and in these applications reference was made <br /> to that fundamental purpose of adjustment of the interstate <br /> controversy. <br /> CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Is there any other discussion going to <br /> this point? <br /> To summarize the discussion of this first principle, the <br /> Commission considers it basic to all of its problems and feels <br />