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<br />.!,. <br /> <br />water from Baulder Dam and deliver the same quantity bf water <br />at the intakes of Mexico.. It is the head of water which is im- <br />partant. So America is being asked to. guarantee not only 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet of water far agricultural purposes, but to. guarantee that <br />that much water shall be delivered in a usable candition. The <br />water can not be delivered in buckets or by any means except <br />by a head af water which must be released in arder to. deliver <br />1,500,000 acre-feet to. the Mexican intakes. <br />"Mr. President, I shall not detain the Senate at any great <br />length. This is nat alane, I repeat, a question of the State of <br />California. Califarnia has been charged with the responsibility, <br />but it is not California's alone. The problem involves the great <br />Rocky Mauntam regian, which in the futurG will furnish hames <br />far millions of men and women who. are to develap that great <br />western area of the United States. If we are to. relinquish aur <br />interest in that region and say that from now an it shall be an <br />area af desolation, and that no. more water is to be used by it <br />fram the Colarado River system, if we are to say that every <br />water right on the Calarada River system is chargeable with the <br />elelivery of 1,500,000 acre-feet to. Mexico then we will approve <br />this treaty. But, if an the other hand, we say that America is <br />laoking forward to the time when millions of hames will be builded <br />an the naw arid and semi-arid regions of the West, then we can <br />no. more ratify this treaty than we can take the life blaod from <br />our neighbor. This is the life bload af the West; this is the <br />life blaad of the desert; this is the life blood of this cauntry, <br />if we are to expand. Sa, !vir. President, I shall vote against <br />this treaty in any event, because af its far-reaching Signifi- <br />cance, and because af the fact that America is giving its all <br />_ __~__~__ anc!.getting nathing~iIUetI.!Q),':"___ _____~~_n __ _ <br /> <br />Senatar Downey had this final warning to. make about the treaty on the <br /> <br />quality question on pages 3484-5 just prior to the final vote: <br /> <br />"The great defect in the treaty at this time--and whether <br />it strikes at the heart af MexiCO or of the United States, I do. <br />nat pretend to. say--is the failure to. clarify the provision with <br />reference to the salinity of water to be delivered to. Mexico. In <br />irrigatian the salinity of the water is a factor just as important <br />as the actual valume of water. In my apinian, the treaty contains <br />a very serious ambiguity in respect to. that matter. I doubt very <br />much whether we shall ever know until there has been same kind <br />af adjudicatian by some internatianal bady, whether Mexico will <br />be campelled to take water regardless af its quality. If Mexico <br /> <br />B 47 <br />