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<br />164 <br /> <br />judgment, is adequate to dispose of the main object, and this objection, - <br /> <br /> <br />this specifically protects th~ federal rights. <br /> <br /> <br />llR. HOOVZR: Yes. The act is wide enough to cover government approp- <br /> <br /> <br />riations of water fer use for navigation, subjeot! .of oourse, to oong-rees's <br /> <br />oonourrence in suoh division. <br /> <br /> <br />I should like to present this to Con[;ress in suoh form as does not <br /> <br /> <br />vitiate the oompaot. However, vie vlill see if Vie oan forr.lUlate something <br /> <br /> <br />in that direction. <br /> <br /> <br />Before we adjourn I want te raise ene broad question on this pact, - <br /> <br /> <br />in Artiole III, the whole paragraph relates to th(J minimum flow of water, <br /> <br /> <br />sevonty five million aore feet, and the four millj.on min:imum, soems to me <br /> <br /> <br />to be worth more or less di.soussion in the interest of both the upper and <br /> <br /> <br />lower basin. You will reoall, in our disoussions we originally started in <br /> <br /> <br />an endeavor to vrork out a division of the water on tho basis of a percentage, <br /> <br /> <br />and as one oorrollary of that porcentage, we woul<i say from a Tl1inimum <br /> <br /> <br />which was not an appropriation. A percentage. of delivery at Lee Ferry. <br /> <br /> <br />Now, we have ohanged the entire basis of the paot, to allooationsof <br /> <br /> <br />quantities. I might say that in general we have come back to llr. Norviel's <br /> <br /> <br />original proposition, exeept that vie have made the division betneen greups <br /> <br /> <br />instead of individual states. I th;Lnk that is 0011siderably of a compliment <br /> <br /> <br />to Mr. Norviel's peroipa~ity. And in so deing we now have a situati.on <br /> <br /> <br />where a different allooation of water has been m~de to the upper states, <br /> <br /> <br />and a different allooation, for a period of years', to the,lower states. <br /> <br /> <br />As a matter of aetual realism, that mi,nimum supply will oome to the lower <br /> <br /> <br />states, because it is less than the surplus allooation made to the upper <br /> <br /> <br />states, and it has this ,ooncrete disadvantage, as I see it, to both s:\.des, - <br /> <br /> <br />it establishes an obligation to control a great river on tho part of the <br /> <br /> <br />northern states, which .will be difficult te dril1 into the heads of laymen <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br />