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<br />. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />fV <br /> <br />.r <br /> <br />(. <br /> <br />It; may bi.; that th,~ )r0vious o.rgum,-,nts elf my fl'i...nci c,tmator <br /> <br />(:al'pe,1t0r \Vill lead. th'J Commission too'olil:'I"o that bis }J:ropose.l <br /> <br />is the; b0st ~ule. It mp)i be: that the )l'OPOS~~Glon tl;-,at the <br /> <br />GovernmorJt is the owncr of thu water 111 the; }mblic le-nd states <br /> <br />and ter:::'.i.torieD will be looked \l.,)on SOi<:tMhat iavu~4bly by tili; <br /> <br />rr.c"loers of t;18 COiiunission, es:;:>eciall~' thos,", of you ,/110 ha,ve not <br /> <br />had the: unfortunate eXjJ31'ience of Colorado am', ;{yof"i17g with <br /> <br />th8 ad.ll1inist~ation of that rule. But wh8ther' ;\'OU adopt one or <br /> <br />another, or d cOuQosite of all, I tbin~ they are worthy of <br /> <br />consideration at your hznds. <br /> <br />A 1.'1ord GS to the )!1;;SiCal cOlI<1itil.Jns; thc;t is to S<:iy, the <br /> <br />water resources and th~ land resourCES &fiectod. by the present <br /> <br />inuuiry. we ere at the headwate:c's of the Colol'ado system in <br /> <br />'ll;yorning, haviu2: th" (;re0n Hi Vel' and. tho Otl',0Y strearas that fiol'] <br /> <br />into the Green ~ivcr risinG I~thin our JOrd0Ys. To put the <br /> <br />contrast rathel' sharply. Calii'ol'ni!i is at tJ".e oth"r l,nd ()f the <br />river. It is Dot only en inturstatu stream that you have to <br /> <br />consider, but an itlturnatio~al stream. There are to be coo- <br /> <br />sidored the rights of the Republic of Mexico, and whatever <br /> <br />disposition t;,is ~Judy fL1<:'Y make, 01' the state lee,islatures aod <br /> <br />congress may iil<:,!ce of the watel'S of this systenJ, we must, through <br /> <br />out the entire conSIderation of the subject, bear in mind that <br /> <br />Mexico must be eonGld0rud. It is true that we probably could <br /> <br />by forcu prevent !<lexico from e;ettiilg- any water, but it is per- <br /> <br />f'3c:tly nnthinl:abie th3.t ti'lil 8i ttki; ion "I ill ever al'ise or that <br /> <br />anyone will propose that we deprive Nexico of the water of the <br /> <br />stl~eam. <br />