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<br />I' <br /> <br />"Mr. GILEq. I do. not think we wauld. But I do. not think <br />that that shauld'weigh so heavily in the over-all picture in this <br />treaty. <br />"Senator WILEY: But suppasing as a matter af actual practice <br />they had to. take thase salt waters. That means yau would have <br />to contribute more fresh water to. make the water the same as it <br />is today. That is what yau are getting at, is it not, Senatar <br />Dawney? <br />"Senatar DOWNEY. Yes. <br />"Senator WILEY. In other words, we wauld have to contribute <br />mare water to Mexico.. <br />"Mr. GILES. I do nat think we have to. cantribute any more <br />water than the treaty provides far. <br />"Senatar WILEY. I believe we cauld argue back and forth <br />on that for a long time, and we wauld nat get anywhere. <br />"Mr. GILES. I am afraid we could argue a long time an that. <br />"Senator BARKLEY. I have nat been able to attend these <br />hearings. Is it the cantention af Califarnia that the treaty is <br />unfair to Mexico? <br />"Mr. GILES. That is the way it saunds fram the questioning, <br />and I have tried to. answer by saying that I assumed the Mexican <br />authorities knew what they were daing. <br />"Senatar MURDOCK. Mr. Giles, if I understood yau carrectly <br />in your first answer on this salinity questian, yau taak the pasi- <br />tion, as I recall the statement, that there was nathing in the treaty <br />as to the quality af water? <br />"Mr. GILES. Yes. I have nat read it, if there is. <br />"Senator MURDOCK. We are allotting to Mexico., in yaur <br />apinian as a lawyer, a certain quantity of water? <br />--'cMr. GI-LES.~-That-is-r-ight-. --- <br />"Senator MURDOCK. Regardless of the quality, either naw <br />or in the future, the limit of that quantity, if I have understaad <br />you correctly, is 1,500,000 acre-feet? <br />"Mr. GILES. That is correct. <br />"Senator MURDOCK. Sa that regardless of what happens in <br />the future, regardless of the fact that by use of the water in the <br />United States it may became much mare saline that at present, is <br />it yaur pasitian, in answering Senatar Wiley, that it becames <br />incumbent ar might become incumbent an us to. allaw more virgin <br />water to. flow to Mexico. to. take care af the salinity in arder to. <br />make the water usable in Mexica? <br />"Mr. GILES. Absolutely not. I do. not see that in the treaty." <br /> <br />B 18 <br />