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102 102 MR. 'ii:lolERSON: Not without a i i rediprocating feature. I It looks in my mind that the basis of this Commission in getting these States together was not to expect that States will subscribe to a doc- trine that is a benefit to one and riot to another. I , JvIR. HOOVER: How about agreein~ to an agreement that may carry benefits to one but no injury to another? .. . MR. E"~RSON: I will do damage 'to another. (Repeats North P.latte River example ,There Wyoming lost 15 years.) ,Ie find now that there is enough water in the NGrth Platte River whereby every , I acre of Wyoming land, susceptible o~ feasible irrigation, could be reached. Meanwhile He had an emoargo on the river. Why should I agree to subscribing to an agreem~nt that would threaten to stop all developments on the Green River? It would be suicide to sub- I I scribe to an agreement for the benefit of those States on the Lower River Hi thout reciprocating b~nefi ts. MR. HOOVER: Mr. Davis, what hiJ,ve you to say? MR. DAVIS: I rather prefe~ to: have Mr. Carpenter here before . fI saying what I want to say. JvIy thoUrht is something like this, Mr. Chairman. (Mr. Carpenter entered the meeting.) I think I can I i make a kind of resume of the situat~on as it presents it$elf to me. Now I start as a representativ~ of one of the Upper States 1 , ,Tith this thought. ~'ie are notaskihg for anything. The lower states of the river as I understan~ the situation are saying to , j us that they lJant us to limit our future use of that water in such . a way as not to interfere with them do,m below. My own situation . I , in New Mexico is this: I have to ~sk nothing from anybody. My neighbors up North, and South in A~izona, are not in a position and I certainly do not desire to do me a4Y injury. 1,1e have therefore, nothing to ask from anyone.