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<br />'r <br />I <br />l <br />r <br /> <br />such as the international dams on the Rio Grande and Davis <br />Dam on the Colorado. The Commission is authorized to <br />investigate and recommend the construction of other works, <br />such as flood control works on the Colorado below Imperial <br />Dam, but no such works can be built without the joint <br />agreement of the two governments. As far as states' rights <br />are concerned, there is not a line in the treaty that remotely <br />hints at any invasion of the rights of the various states to <br />handle their own water matters within their own borders. <br />On the Rio Grande, for instance, the sole function of the <br />Commission is to impound the waters and determine the <br />share of water so impounded belonging to each of the coun- <br />tries. The distribution of the waters belonging to the United <br />States within the State of Texas is solely a matter to be <br />decided by the duly constituted state authorities under state <br />law. Since the United States is not obligated to deliver any <br />certain quantity of water from the tributaries of the Rio <br />Grande within the United States, it is purely a matter of <br />local and state concern whether those waters are to be used <br />on the tributalies or allowed to flow into the main stream <br />to be used on the riparian lands below. On the Colorado <br />River the division of the waters has already been effected <br />by compact among the basin states. That Compact makes <br />specific provision for an allocation of waters to Mexico and <br />the terms of that Compact remain unimpaired. In short, <br />this treaty is concerned solely with international matters, <br />leaving to the local and state authorities and to other Fed- <br />eral agencies the powers, jurisdictions and prerogatives <br />which they now enjoy. <br /> <br />In conclusion, we are firmly of the opinion that this <br />treaty is fair and equitable to both countries and that its <br />ratification is in the interest of the United States as a whole <br />as well as in the real and permanent interest of the eight <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />9 <br />