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,1H~REAS, it is the understanding of this League, from in- formation presented by Hon. Arthur P. Davis, Direotor of the United St"tes Reolamation Servioe. that the water supply of the Colorado River drainage is suffioient to supply the present and future neoessities of all of the States'whose territory is involved and that all present and future interferenoe with development upon or from the upper reaches of the stream should be avoided: NOW. THEREFORE. BE ,IT RESOLVED That the League favors the early deyelopment of all possible bene!ioial uses of the waters of the stream upon the upper reaches of the stream and its tributaries along the lines set forth in the resolutions adopted at the Salt Lake Coa- ference of January 21-31. 1919. and that present and future restrictions upon such development by withholding or conditional granting of appli- oationA for rights of walf aoross public lands for irrigation works should be disoontinued and that such applications should be granted with that degree of dispatch which will permit the construction of all suoh projeots while finanoial and other means are at hand and opportunity for construotion exist_9 ~l,I: \; }:' i" ., BE IT RESOLVED. that it is the sense of this Conference that the present and future rights of the several states whose territory is in Whole or in part included within the drainage area pf the Colorado River, and the rights of the United States, to the use and benefit of the waters of said stream and its tributaries. should be settled and deter- mined by oompact or e.g~eement between said states and the United States, with consent of C.agress. and that the Legislatures of said states be requested to authorize the appointment of oommissioners for eaoh of said state. for the purpose of entering into such compact or agreement for subsequent ratifioation and approval by the Legislatures of each of said states and the Congress of the United states," Pursuant to the last quoted resolutions and at the request of Governor Campbell of Arizona, President of the League, bills were drawn for submission to the Legislatures of the seven states involved and were forwarded to those states during January. 1921. These measures provide for the appointment of a joint high commission to be oomposed of re- presentatives o!' the seven states and the United states for the purpose of negotiating and entering into a treaty or compact respeoting the future utiliBation and benefits of the waters of the Colorado River. In harmony with this action'by the seven Colorado River states, speoial bills were prepared for interstate oommissions on four other streams rising and flowing within the Sta'i:e of Colorado, viz. the Arkansas, Ii'