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<br />" <br /> <br />return flaw. Senator Millikin daes not dispute this passibility, but states <br /> <br />that the Mexican engineers understaad the situation including the source of <br /> <br />the water and the treaty terms. They intend to take the water pravided in the <br /> <br />treaty. (p. 2822) . <br /> <br />Senator Murdack seemed to. think that the State Department had not <br /> <br />faced the quality issue squarely and engaged with Senator Millikin in the <br /> <br />following exchange on page 2826: <br /> <br />"Mr. MURDOCK. . . <br />"] have a statement made by one of the distinguished <br />negotiators af this treaty, wherein he refers to the quality of <br />water. He states that Mexico obj ected to the fact that the <br />treaty did nat consider the question of quality, and that we <br />evaded it. In my apinion, therein lies one of the difficulties <br />of this treaty. There has been an attempt by the State Department <br />to evade a question instead af laaking it squarely in the face. <br />That is why the question arises here today, and we find it <br />necessary to. clarify the treaty by looking the questian squarely <br />in the face. The negotiators tried to evade it. If there is any- <br />thing that is a prolific breeder of cantentian far the future, it is <br />the effart to evade in a treaty a questian which cauld and should <br />be treated with clarity by laaking it squarely in the face. <br />"Mr. MILliKIN. The distinguished Senator would nat expect <br />me_ta_acce pt .any_charge_aLevasialLag ains Lthe_State_Depar.t- <br />ment. ] simply say that sa far as the question af salinity is <br />concerned, I expect to demanstrate that whether ar nat we <br />laoked the questian in the face, Mexico. laoked it squarely in <br />the face and made its decisian for the treaty as it stands, <br />knowing full well every meaning and implicatian of it. If <br />the teeth of the State Department have become taa lang in any <br />aspect of this treuty--and ] do nat so allegenI think everything <br />will be braught back to. narmal proportions before we shall have <br />finished with it. <br />"Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. President, will the Senator further <br />yield? <br />"Mr. MILLIKIN. I yield. <br />"Mr. MURDOCK. Referring to. the evidence of a very dis- <br />tinguished engineer be fare the cammittee, when he was being <br />interrogated on the questian of salinity, the simple question was <br />propaunded to. him, Why nat put in the treaty the wards 'regardless <br /> <br />B 34 <br />