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<br />., <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />"Senator MILLIKIN. If the Mexicans understand the kind <br />af water they are getting--and as I understand it the testimony <br />has shown that they da--and if they contract in the treaty for <br />that kind of water, I daubt whether it wauld be any subsequent <br />ground far arbitrating the que stion. <br />"Senator AUSTIN. \II; ell, there wauld nat be, if the treaty <br />plainly stated 'regardless of quality', but as I interpret the <br />treaty, that is one of the ambiguous features of it. <br />"Senator Iv'iILLIKIN. I wauld like to suggest that when you <br />say 'fram ani saurce'; where it is clearly cantemplated that a <br />part af the s::>urce is water af high salinity, it meets the same <br />paint. <br />"Senatar AUSTIN. Yau may be right abaut that. That is <br />what I am trying to find out. What is the practical interpretatian <br />af that, by men who are accustomed to the conditions? <br />"Senator MILLIKIN. Mr. Tiptan, who sat in on the confer- <br />ence between Mexico and this country, with the engineers, has <br />testified that that issue was faced squarely, that Mexico. under- <br />stands exactly the kind of water she will get from return flow." <br /> <br />2 . Mr. Fisher S. Harris had the following statement to make concern- <br /> <br />ing the quality argument at pages 556-57; <br /> <br />"Haw abaut the quality? It has been whispered around that the <br />return flow, whatever it may be, will be unfit far the use to. <br />which we know ~J;exica intends to put it. But that has been <br />aff-the-record stuff. It mustn't be talked about, because, if <br />it were, Mexico might be awakened and refuse to ratify. Mr. <br />T-imm-,the-State-Bepartment-representaHve,-at-the-meehng- of~ - ~ ~ ~~- <br />the Cammittee of Fourteen, held at Salt Lake City during January <br />af 1944, just before the treaty had been signed, said that the <br />Mexican representatives were concerned about this, but-- and <br />I use his words-- 'they were evaded.' All this by the very persans <br />who prate af equitable rights and fair dealing, and the like. If <br />Mexico. is entitled to. a guaranteed first right to 1,500,000 acre- <br />feet af the waters 0.1 the Colorado, she is entitled to 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet af water fit for use, and, after having been guaranteed <br />it by treaty, she cauld get it, plus the return flaw, by arbitration, <br />if necessary, far we couldn't refuse to arbitrate that, unless an <br />the ground, as proclaimed, that 'we put ane over and that settles <br /> <br />it. III <br /> <br />3. M. J. Dawd stated his pasition on quality beginning at page 750 <br /> <br />as follows: <br /> <br />B 24 <br />