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<br />15 <br /> <br />type theories of Boards of Control," and warned against codification of the <br />state's water laws, because by so doing the federal government will find an <br />ingress into the state's bureaucracy. On many occasions during his four-year <br />term in the Senate, Carpenter showed that he was a supporter of William <br />Howard Taft and Secretary of Interior, Richard A. Ballinger in their battle <br />against the Progressive insurgents lead by Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford <br />Pinchot. Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 20 folder 4; box 47. In a book <br />manuscript by Douglas Littlefield entitled, "Conflict and Compromise Water <br />Politics on the Rio Grande, 1880 to 1938," the author explains how <br />Progressive ideas of centralization of control over the nation's natural <br />resources affected policies of the United States Reclamation Service during <br />the early twentieth century. <br /> <br />28. The Pueblo Chieftain, I3 March 1925. Carpenter recalled that he came up <br />with the interstate treaty plan in 1909. This makes sense, because the Greeley <br />Poudre Irrigation District, for which he was attorney, signed a contract in that <br />year with the Laramie-Poudre Reservoir and Irrigation Company for <br />construction of works that would divert and store Laramie River water in the <br />Cache la Poudre River basin Plans to construct the Laramie-Poudre Tunnel <br />eventually led to Colorado being sued by Wyoming, a case which had a major <br />intellectual impact on Carpenter who became Colorado's lead attorney. <br /> <br />29. Colorado, S. B. 134, amendmentto the act of April 13, 1901, whose <br />section 4, Carpenter argued, was unconstitutional, because it allowed ditches <br />to take water from reservoirs regardless of the reservoir's date of construction. <br />Opponents argued that the "Carpenter Reservoir Bill" would encourage <br />wildcat speculators to build reservoirs and hold the water while crops were <br />burning until irrigators agreed to pay an exorbitant price. See the Denver <br />Republican, 10 March 1911. 1911 was the first year of the newly passed <br />initiative and referendum law The Direct Election League of Denver attacked <br />the bill, but the essence of Carpenter's change remained unscathed. <br /> <br />30. Delph E. Carpenter et aI., "Report of Committee on Irrigation," 31 <br />January 1911. This report stated that the doctrine of prior appropriation and <br />beneficial use should not be modified, that the United States Reclamation <br />Service should remain subject to the state's constitution and that the state's <br />