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<br />211 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. j';hlERSON: I agree vlith you. <br />!.IR. CARPENTER: This clause we are non discussing, does it destroy <br />navigation, or simply maIm it subservient to these other rights? It seems <br />to me the effect is to bring about a larger recognition of navigation than <br />now obtains. <br />MR. DAVIS: If the words "as between the states" wore stricken. <br />HR. CARPENTRIt: Yes. <br />1m. HOOVER: It 1'lOuld read" Inasmuch as the Colorado River has ceased <br />to.benavigable, it is hereby agreed that the use of its waters for purposes <br />of navigation shall be subservient to the uses and necessary consumption of <br />such water for domestic, agricultural and power purposes. In the event the <br />Congress of the United States of America shall withhold its approval from <br />this paragraph, such action shall not affect any of the other provisions of <br />this compact." It doesn I t seem to me, - "It has ceased", - the reason is <br /> <br />that it should cease in order to allow the waters to be used for these <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />..' <br /> <br />purposes. <br /> <br /> <br />MR. D,\VIS: That is nhat I, - not what I had in mind, but what I presume <br /> <br /> <br />lb. 1.!CKisick had in mind, is the fact that. irr j,gat ion dams does destroy the <br /> <br /> <br />navigability of the river abeve that point. That statement might cause an <br /> <br /> <br />issue with the War Department, who said that the river is navigable, and in <br /> <br /> <br />this 1'le state that it is not now navigable. <br /> <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEL: I fear that the nords "should cease" might be objectionablo. <br /> <br /> <br />1m. DAVIS: I rathor liko tho idea of using tho Dresent condition than <br /> <br /> <br />to su~gest that the condition might beehanged by something we do. <br /> <br /> <br />IlR. EMERSON: All we wish to do is to make it subserviont. <br /> <br /> <br />l.lR. C,\RPENTER: The' clause does not make it obligatory to force the <br /> <br /> <br />approval of congress;' Congress may approve it if she wants to, but if she <br /> <br />does not approve of the compact as a whole, - if thicr one clause is not <br /> <br />. <br />