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<br />165 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />as an obligation capable of performance, and as to the lower states its <br /> <br />complexion is of giving a less amount of water to those sto.tes Upn they will <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />actually receive; but if it were entirely omitted, - the entire parac;ro.ph, <br /> <br />all discussion in the lower states would revolve around tho flo1'i of the <br /> <br />Colorado River, not on the minimums here set doy,n, aD these minimums havo <br /> <br />beon made less than the normo.l and expotant floT! of the l"iver in order. to <br /> <br />e;ive security to the upper crtntos in the.ir ability to delivor, and Tie are <br /> <br />directly clouding the mind of .the public as to the volume of water with <br /> <br />which we arc dealinG. In other nords, it would seem to me, if I "[ere to go <br /> <br />before the legislatures of the different states I nould ra ther have the <br /> <br />rn10le paragraph out. <br /> <br />By discussion would then be hinged upon the seven and <br />. <br /> <br />a half million consumptive use confined to the upper states, and the normal <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />flow of tho reconstruoted river, tho twenty-two million feet of water, and <br /> <br />I thin), it would make it much less difficult, and intrinsically lose no <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />water to the lovler states. !'Jow, I.present both sides of that, as I believo, <br /> <br />as being of equal importance to the north and to the south, and ask you to <br /> <br />give it a little furthor oonsideration. I don 't ask any alterations. I <br /> <br />haven't the power to do that, but just ask your consideratj.on. <br /> <br />1m. DAVIS: I think as to those facts we discussed them among ourselves <br /> <br />and f21t that to be very valuable to us. Nevertheless we will be very glad, <br /> <br />between now and noon, to eensider the matter of the elimination of that clause. <br /> <br />l.ill. HOOVEn: Othorwise than that, the one otlwr point rrhieh Ivrould <br /> <br />like to brine uv is tho definition of consumptive bonef:Lcio.l use; the nords <br /> <br />Tlhich we apply to the definition of appropriation need to be made very clear <br /> <br />that this includes pOTier. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />!.IH. DAVIS: I thin]" Hr. Chairman, that definition has Got to be <br /> <br />lit <br /> <br />entirely. revised, - the definition of appropriation. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: "Apportionment" Vie may neVer use at all in the cOl~pleted <br /> <br />pact, but the definition of the word "apportionment" is one. which needs some <br />