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<br />214 <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />mi. CALDi"n:::LL: .Ind this is still a navigablo rivor" at loast in thoory. <br /> <br /> <br />HR. C.mPEHTEl1: Vlo do not dostroy the navigability in toto. <br /> <br /> <br />HR. HOOVER: That is tho statomont horo; tho only difforonco betvlOon <br /> <br /> <br />this and that is that wo mako a statomont hore vThich tonds to convinco <br /> <br /> <br />congross on tho fact of it that thoy cannot do it. ThoY cannot safely <br /> <br /> <br />make a resorvation on this clauso. <br /> <br /> <br />MR. SCRUGfL\l.l: Hoad it aGain. <br /> <br /> <br />Lrn. HOOVER: u.:rnasmuch as the Colorado Rivor has ceasod to bo navigablo <br /> <br /> <br />in ,fact, and inasmuch as the rosorvation of its "'mter for navigation wbuld <br /> <br /> <br />soriously limit tho devolopmont of the Basin, it is horeby agreed that the <br /> <br /> <br />uso of its waters for purposes of navigation shall bo subservient to tho <br /> <br /> <br />usos of such wdters for domestic, agricultural and pmver purposes. <br /> <br /> <br />l,rn. C.U,m'/EL1: I think wo should stop there. <br /> <br /> <br />!:rn. SCl1UGH.\J.l: Then Y'ou invalidate the whole thing. <br /> <br /> <br />1m. BAVLS: The first statomont I was very much in f:avor of, tho <br /> <br /> <br />statomentthat the rivor is not naviglililo, I find in checking up. I doubt, <br /> <br /> <br />ynlOn Goneral Boach appearod bofore the committeo: ho stated, that in his <br /> <br /> <br />judgment the rivor is navigable up to tho Gila, ;:md thorefore, I think, <br /> <br /> <br />rathor than make an issuo out of it, which wot\ld arise. On the face of <br /> <br /> <br />it I think that statoment should bo cut out, the statomont that it is not <br /> <br /> <br />naviGable now. nl other nords, you would havo a straigh'l; issue nith the <br /> <br /> <br />Viar Dopartmont on it. <br /> <br /> <br />I.IR.,HOOVER: "It has oeased to be naviGable!! perhaps that is not a <br /> <br /> <br />fact, but it is a matter of practiee. <br />1m,. DAVIS, Yos sir. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />!:lR. HOOVER: <br />1m. D;,VIS: <br />Lm. llOOV!':R, <br /> <br />Can yeu say it ceased to be cOlfll1lorcially naVi.gablo? <br /> <br /> <br />Practically navigablo, something like that. <br /> <br /> <br />It is no longor an avenue of commerce. Of coursowo <br /> <br />"If <br />