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"Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? "Mr. MILLIKIN. I yield "Mr. DOWNEY. If the Government af Mexico wishes know- ingly to make a treaty under which MeXiCo. would be abligated to accept water af such paor quality that it might be of no value what- saever to. her, I can make no obj ectian. But I may say to the dis- tinguished Senator that there is no language in this treaty which wauld compel Mexico. to. accept worthless water, Such language is merely read into. the treaty by indirection ar implicatian. No caurt af internatiar.al arbitration would ever stultify itself by halding that this treaty wauld obligate Mexico to take useless water. I may say further to the distingUished Senatar that if he wishes to save a great deal af time and energy he should bring his ability to bear upon changing the language of the treaty which provides that Mexico ugrees to take the water regardless of quality. If he will do that, 75 percent af the time naw being consumed will be saved. Let us say in simple language what the Senatar says the treaty means. "Mr. MILLIKIN. Mr. President, when the Senatar says that water may be taken from any source, whatever it may be, he states the situation precisely. Such language is not implication. There is nathing imaginative abaut it, The Mexican engineers know that the water must come down the stream. They know that it must come out 01 canals from the return flow. They know that it also comes aut af the Ail-American Canal. Thase are the scurces of the water. They know its origins. "The Senator from Ca lifu~'nia continues to harp on our delivery to. Mexico of water which he 3ays she could not use. Mexico. can use any water that 1Ne have l.lsed, and the most saline of the return flow _~il!.. be ~ter which we have just used. "Mr" DOWNEY. The distinguished Senator fram Colorado is not following the record" The undisputed evidence on this paint-- and all experts agree on this--is that the wuter out of Lake Mead coming to. Arizona would be fairly good water, but that after having run through the saity soil of i\rizana at Caiifornia it would become so impregnated with salt that it wauld be practically unusable. A letter has been presented from the most distinguished expert an the subj e::::t in the United Sta tes. He placed the limit of talerance of saline water at 2,000 parts per miilion. The Bureau af Reclama- tion itself testified th3t the saline cantent of this water would be 2,700 parts per millian, If the treaty means 'regardless of quality', why nat satisfy us by adding the ",'ords 'regardless of quality'? "Mr. MILLIKIN. When the treaty provides that Mexico shall accept water fram any and all sources, regardless af arigin, that is exactly what it means. B 38