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<br />21.r;~ <br /> <br />can get up and down, but it is not commercially navigable..' <br /> <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEL: I vrould prefer some phrase, "almost wholly" or almost, - <br /> <br /> <br />some word, - some phrase rather than narrowing it down to a -single vrord. <br /> <br /> <br />MR. DAV~S: How about practically. <br /> <br /> <br />lill. CARPEnTER: Practically, yes. rihat I want was to avoi~ the necessity <br /> <br /> <br />of presenting facts bcfore the committee, and having the War Department come <br /> <br /> <br />in and take the attitude 'and we take the other, <br /> <br />till. HOOVEn: You limit, yourselves in the nord "praGtically" they could <br /> <br />.'.~ <br /> <br />come in and ask you to givo proo.f on that, Isn't it a little bettor to say <br /> <br />"navigable commercially". <br /> <br />JUDGE SI,OAN: Cou1d you say "Cease to have any -- <br />MR. HOOVER: Cease to be navigab1e for cormnerce.. <br />1m . DAVIS: Cease to be va1uable for navigation. <br />I.m. MC CLURE: I do not like the nords "The river has ceased to be <br />naviga"ble". I believe in many respects that is not good. <br />Ivm. EMERSON: I don I t believe it is necessary to argue the case in this <br />article, and I can say the representatives from Wyoming will present the <br />case to Congress with the reservation, - you can depend,on the men from <br />Wyoming making their argument. <br />1m. CAHPENTER: The most illuminating memoranda th"t I have b8en able <br />to find on this subject of navj,l';ation, or a lack of the nml'igability of the <br />Colorado River was that filed by 'Judge Phil. D. Syring, now a congressman, <br />and read later to the committee,' at the 66th Conzress, first session, hnd <br />incorporated in the record of the hearinl'; before that committee nhen ari <br />AII-ALlerican C<J.nal project vras under discussion, in vrhich he demonstrated to <br />a conclusive dezree that the navigability of the Colorado Rivcr, as wo under.. <br /> <br />stand the term in its connection with commerci<J.1 uses, and the uses of the <br /> <br />river for the floatihg of bO<J.ts, never did exist, and oven if it bo said <br /> <br />~' <br /> <br />',- <br />