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<br />219 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />fact,'to be an unnavigable, or ~n innavigable river, and I believe that that <br />is the only thing in which Congress will have any grave concern. I believe <br />Congress will readily consent or assent to the proposition that it will not <br />interfere, or seel( to interfere with the 'construction of large irrigation or <br />control "orks on the rivor, or the maintenanee or perpetuity of those <br />structures in that river for that purpose. Now, I have said that largely <br />because I want to get into the record and be understood as clearly as I C@Xl <br />be. tt is not in my mind, Mr. Chairman, to say that I shall not SUbscribe <br />to this pact insofar as I may bc considered a signatory, if the proyision is <br />made that Congress may withhold its assent to this article, or this para- <br />graph in Article IV. I shall vote against, hmvovor, any motion Tlhich is put <br />to modify the substanco of that paragraph wheroin it may [';ivo tho right to <br />Congress, or to the Govornmont, or to any buroau theroof, to dostroy or" <br /> <br /> <br />romove any works that may be placod in tho rivor for the bonofit of the so- <br /> <br /> <br />called dominant uses. I think that is all. <br /> <br /> <br />1m. HOOVER: Then do you dissont from having any reservation thero? <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />1,11l. C:\LDlil:t:LL: Yos sir. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />llR. DAVIS: The difficulty Hr. Caldwell finds hore, at loast in my <br />Vi01'l, :Ls likoly this: I would very much rather havo tho clause nithout nny <br />roservation at all, but that is one thing if we put in tho CLlUSO in that <br />vray, and then in the iJ:nprobable ovcmt that Congross should not assont to that <br />clausq, one of tYIO things would happon: Con~ress would nJject tho pact .in <br />toto, which Tlould end everyth:ing for some time to conIC, or Tlould approvo it, <br />with a disapproval of that particular clause, which moans we 1'J~ould all <br />havo to go back to our legislaturos again for a nOli o.pproval. <br />l.ffi.. C,\LDHELL: I think that is very clear, Judge Davis, I don't believe <br /> <br /> <br />I am laboring under any misapprehension. If I could get the cooperation of <br /> <br /> <br />my fe],low commissioners in this matter, - I shall put up just another pro- <br /> <br />.. <br />