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<br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF WATER <br />RIGHTS' <br /> <br />(By the Honorable Perry W, lIIortDn ') <br /> <br />You.h:l\'c honored me by your invitation to flppear on this pl'og-ram <br />of vonf annl1,lI cOllvention. There arc scH'l'al rc:IS()n~. apart from <br />my'ollicia' Htatlls, why I fonlld this oppon.nnit.y per;;ollal!y attl'aetiye, <br />For onc t.hing, I am d(>lig-htcd to he llg'ain in D('nn~r, Colo., where <br />I first. ~t, foot. 47 ycal's aero and whcl"e I hil.\"e spent so mallY happy <br />days of lilY life. 'The en71icr trips from IllY hometown of Lillcoln, <br />Nebr., were in the yca.l'S before the 1\fotTat. tllllnt'l~ whell acceSoC; to <br />Grallby was hy rail o\'el' Corona and tbe trip to Oralld Lnke 110(1 to <br />be completed ]'y st.age conch. I bope I don't look tltat old, bllt I am, <br />I. remind those who may not be as wel! acqnaillted With local g('og- <br />raphy th<tt. GI':1.nd Lnke is the hig-It point of one of the largest. and <br />most. Ilsdn! of tl1(' Iw.lamat.ion pl'Ojects in the. United States, I know <br />almost en'!')" foot of it on the g'l'olllld. <br />Then, too, this assoc.iat.ioll is ident.ifie(l, in my n1ill(l, with a. fellow <br />,townsmfln, C. P{'trlls PCh'1'50n, olle of yom' highly hOllored past <br />pl"(>gidL'Jlt:=;. This: alTect.ioJlflte acrpwintance ,goes hack much more than <br />a ~Pller:ltion to when Sen:ltor Ppt0l"SOn WflS city fltt.cHl1ey ~lnd my <br />maternal grtlndfuthe_r wns for ncnrly 40 VN\.rs the. water commissioner <br />in Lincol~l. Senat.or Peterson's office today is in exactly t.he same <br />room which WilS my private oflice when I left Lincoln in 105:} to <br />llSSlImc my present duty in 'Vashin~()n. <br />Finally, It is a. real pe1'sonl\l ple:\snre for 1no to have this part in <br />" ,1iee.uesioll with my rrood friend Hatfield Chil;;on, fOrlner Under <br />Secretary of lllt.(~rioi., \~ho r('.ndered dist.ing-nished puhlic ~l'yice.and <br />earned the l'espect of all who workeo with him. \'.-Idle he was in <br />'Vilshington. If I filll int.o the hahit of callill~ him "Chilly," it is <br />becallse t.hat. is his llieknan1e, and not becanse it. haR any reference <br />to some of t.he remarks he has made here about. the views of t.he <br />Depart.ment. of .J lI~t.i('.E'" <br />Beyond t,hr:-:e expressions of my personal pleasure in being here, <br />I \~ant to emphasize on behalf of the Department of Justice my appre- <br />ciation of YOlll' invitation. To the hC'st of my knowledge, t.his is the <br />first, t.ime a rcpresenta,tive of the Department. has eyer appeared on <br />YOllr plnt.form. <br />Having- ace-oroce! me t.he courtesy of your invit.ntion, I tnlst that <br />yon may also belie\'e that, I am-bot.h personally and officially-just <br />Its mlleh in~erested as you are in n. nnt.ionnl policy for the sound, <br />comprehensIve dp.velopment and cOlk.;:ervation of our country's water <br />resonrces, I should like to overcome as far as I am able, any idea <br />whie.h may be held tha,t there is something sinister about performing <br /> <br />1 Address berore the Nntlonnl Reclamntlon AII8oclatlon nt Ita llnnun} meeting'. Oct. 2~. <br />19!"i9. <br />~ Mr. Mortem 13 ....3l\1stnnt Attotne1 General or the United States 1n eho:rge ot the Landa <br />Division ot the Department 0' Justice. <br />51 <br />