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, " .. '" National Irrigatian Commissian is terminating, this theme will be considered more fully, in arder to. do away with any doubt that may be had in this respect. It is not within the purpose and the time set for this repart to. do it as fully as is necessary, but we may paint out at least the following reasons: '(a) The negatiations af the treaty an the part of the American delegatian and later its approval by the American Senate were made by taking as a funda- mental basis the official dacument called the Santa Fe agreement, which with the appraval of the American Federal Government distributed, since 1922, the main stream af the Colorado River amang the American States af the upper and lawer basins, and specified that the waters assigned to. Mexico. shauld be taken from the excess which the average virgin valume af the river (22,000,000,000 cubic meters) (17,835,000 acre-feet) had over the valume distributed amang the American States of the upper and lower basins (20,000,000,000 cubic meters) (15, 213, 600 acre-feet). Our assignment af 1,850,000,000 meters (1,500,000 acre-feet) is included, then, within the 2,000,000,000 cubic meters (1,621,000 acre-feet) af the difference. The virgin waters af the Cala- rada River are of good quality. Besides this, even a super- ficial study af the treaty shows. from the introduction to. the transitory articles with which it terminates, that it is inspired with the fact that" it is to the interests of bath countries to take advantage af these waters in ather uses and consumptions * * * in arder to. obtain its mast complete a!l,d_s_aJi..~ C!.cJWy_uJiJi~ati..oJ).._"__Thi.sjs_a-P.<lrg.gIa~hJr,ans.cribed_ from the preface. In article 27 of the transitary articles it is clearly stated that the use to which these waters are to be put is that of irrigatian. Therefare, in this treaty, as in any ather of itS kind, it is understaad that the water must be af goad quality. Mexico has the riqht to have the water that is assigned to it from the Colarada River praceed entirely from the virgin volume af the current, but knawinq that this is physically impossible to obtain far any use of water downstream on any river fully utilized, as is the Calarado River, our cauntry had no. abjection to. receiving these waters the same as the other American users of the lawer portion of the Colorado. River, as lanq as they were af qaod quality for irrigation.' (Emphasis supplied.) B 51