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<br />. ... ~ ~ <br /> <br />002201 <br /> <br />ARIZONA v. CALIFORNIA. <br /> <br />27 <br /> <br />fleeting the prevailing sense of urgency for decisive action, <br />Senator Bratton emphasized that this was not a dispute <br />limited simply to two States: <br /> <br />"The two States have exchanged views, they have <br />negotiated, they have endeavored to reach an agree- <br />ment, and until now have been unable to do so. This <br />controversy does not affect those two States alone. <br />It affects other States in the Union and the Gov- <br />ernment as well. <br />"Without undertaking to express my views either <br />way upon the subject, I do think that if the two <br />States are unable to agree upon a figure then that <br />we, as a disinterested. and friendly agency, should <br />pass a bill which, according to our combined judg- <br />ment, will justly and equitably settle the controversy. <br />I suggested 4,400,000 acre-feet with that in view. I <br />still hold to the belief that somewhere between the <br />two figures we must fix the amount, and that this <br />difference of 400,000 acre-feet should not be allowed <br />to bar and preclude the passage of this important <br />measure dealing with the enormous quantity of <br />15,000,000 acre-feet of water and involving seven <br />States as well as the Government." " <br /> <br />The very next day, December 11, this crucial amendment <br />was adopted," and on the twelfth Senator Hayden pointed <br />out that the bill settled the dispute over Lower Basin <br />waters by giving 4,400,000 acre-feet to California and <br />2,800,000 to Arizona: <br />"One [dispute] is how the seven and a half million <br />acre-feet shall be divided in the lower basin. The <br />Senate has settled that by a vote-that California <br /> <br />"ld" at 333. <br />"ld" at 387. <br />