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I I I I . I I I I I I I I I I I I I ,. 39 undertook. "114 Sweet accepted Carpenter's judgment and abandoned the plan for litigation. None of the other states in the Upper Basin wanted to renegotiate the Compact. They agreed with Carpenter that "if. . . the [C]ompact were agreed to as binding upon the United States and the six states which have already ratified, it would in large measure serve the desired purposes, particularly in view of the fact that the entire canon in Arizona is one great Federal Power Reserve."115 With Hoover's approval, Carpenter drew up the draft ofa six-state compact and then, following Hoover's suggestion, he made plans to discuss it personalIy with leaders in the other five states. 116 The bill which Carpenter crafted waived the provisions of the first paragraph of the Compact's Article X, calling on the six states to ratity the Compact again without Arizona's participation. Once approved by six state legislatures and Congress, the Compact would be in effect. Dam construction on the Colorado River could begin immediately. Arizona could develop the Gila River to its fulIest extent. When more water was needed by Arizona, Carpenter surmised, Arizona could "come in [to the Compact] or sue.,,117 On Carpenter's trip to garner support for the six-state plan, he won immediate assurances of cooperation from Nevada and Utah, expressions of agreement from New Mexico and prompt approval from his own Colorado State Assembly. Wyoming showed some reluctance, voicing concern about ratitying a compact to which Arizona would not be a party, but officials soon agreed with Carpenter that there was no practical alternative. By mid-March 1925, alI of the upper states and Nevada had approved the six-state arrangement, leaving California the only state unwilling to ratity.llS Californians Phil Swing, Mark Rose and their supporters took advantage of the six-state proposal "to agitate once more for a reservation [in