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<br />c, <br /> <br />added to. satisfy him as a "water supply engineer". Senator Austin engaged in <br /> <br />the following exchange with Mr. Elder and Senator Millikin beginning on page <br /> <br />469: <br /> <br />"Senator AUSTIN. Must we assume that where the treaty <br />guarantees 1,500,000 acre-feet, that that is talking abaut <br />water that is suitable for beneficial use'! <br />"Mr. ELDER. That is my immediate assumptian as a <br />water supply engineer, and I cannot accept any ather, under <br />the camity af nations, perhaps, unless it is written into. this <br />treaty more exactly than naw. <br />"Senator AUSTIN. Then is the carollary af that true, that <br />if yau poured down there 2,000,000 acre-feet, but it was nat <br />suitable for beneficial use, that would be a vialation af the <br />treaty? <br />"Ivlr. ELDER. If I were a Mexican afficial I wauld certainly <br />cantend that, in the face af the language af this treaty. <br />"Senator AUSTIN. Well, as we study it, we have to. laak <br />at it in the worst possible light. <br />"Mr. ELDER. That is the way we attempt to., af caurse. <br />We are fearful oI variaus cantingencies, anly some af which <br />may happen, but enough af them are gaing to happen to. put us <br />in trouble with it. <br />"Senator MILLIKIN, ]vir. Chairman, i'viuy I ask a questian? <br />Senator LUCAS (Presiding). Senatar lvilllikin. <br />"Senatar MILLIKIN. Senatar Austin, the language af the <br />treaty, article 10, chapter 3, starts off as fallaws: <br />__~Of-the..water.s_of_the..Colarado_River_,_fram_any_and__ -- -- - .. --- <br />all saurces, there are allacated to Mexica--' <br />1,500,000 feet. <br />"I think the testimony has made it very clear that Mexico. <br />cantemplates that included in the saurces af water will be <br />return-flow water, and Mexico, af course, is aware af the fact <br />that the water for example earning fram Arizona has very high <br />salinity. <br />"Senator AUSTIN. Yes, I understand, but the prablem that <br />is in my mind--and this may be in errar, because I am nat familiar <br />with thaI sauthwestern situation--the problem in my mind is this: <br />assuming that that is the true meaning of the treaty, that an that <br />basis there should be a development in lviexico to. the full exent <br />(sic) of 1,500,000 acre-feet from all sources; then, afterward, <br />if it shauld turn out that the surplus is not fit far beneficial use, <br />daes that not raise at once an issue that wauld invoke an arbitratian? <br /> <br />B 23 <br />