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<br />11 <br /> <br />ENDNOTES <br /> <br />1. Letter, Delph E. Carpenter to A. H Cutler, Secretary, Colorado Water <br />Users Association, Fort Morgan, Colorado, 12 May 1921. Delph E. Carpenter <br />Papers, temporarily located in the archives of the Northern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District, Loveland, Colorado. This collection is referred to <br />hereinafter as Carpenter Papers, NCWCD to distinguish it from the Carpenter <br />Papers at the Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa. <br /> <br />2. U.S., Statutes at Larg;e, XLII: 171. Except for some economy minded <br />congressmen and a few Californians who feared delay of flood control <br />projects on the lower river, no real opposition to the bill appeared. It passed <br />overwhelmingly in the House, 237 to 15, and was signed into law by the <br />President on August 19, 1921. See Norris Hundley, jr., Water and the West: <br />The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West <br />(Berkeley University of California Press, 1975), 112,113 <br /> <br />3. Carpenter had hoped that Harding would choose Elihu Root, a man he <br />believed to have sufficient international experience and who was "free himself <br />from the influence of the ambitions and whisperings of idealists and persons <br />in Governmental departments" and who could "rise to the greater and <br />imperative task of leading both the States and the Nation into a more perfect <br />accord. . . ." but he was not disappointed with the selection of Hoover. See <br />Delph E. Carpenter, "Application of the Reserve Treaty Powers of the States <br />to Interstate Water Controversies," v 24, Reports of the Colorado Bar <br />Association, 1921, also published in Interstate Compacts: Compilation of <br />Articles from Various Sources, 4 vols.. (Denver: Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, 19411-', I, 136, 137 <br />~ <br />4. Letter, Herbert Hoover to Delph E. Carpenter, 27 November 1922, <br />Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 20, folder 8. <br />