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000183 -8- ... an interstate oo:npact the purpose of whioh should be to settle in ad- vanCe of construction all matters respecting the future utilizrtion of the waters of that stream from it s sourceS in the mountdns to the international boundary below Yuma, Arizona, .' In due course, and particularly in the months of January, February and !1arch of the year 1921, the legislatures of thesa seven Stotes pass- ed bills, and those bills have been si~aed by the governor of each of the States, calling npon the governor of the State to appoint a com- missioner on behalf of each of the Statas to negotiate vJith the com- missioners of the other States for the purposes I have mentioned. Subsequently, the governor of each of the States appointed a com- missioner on behalf of his State pursuant to the legislation. The seven Stotes then havinc appointed their oommissioners, and having all legislated upon the subject, on 11o.y 10 of this Y8ar the governors of those seven States met at the city of Denver and there formulated resO- lutions calling upon the President of the United St,'tes and Congress to grant the necessary consent to a compact between them. 1m.. CH!,NDlER. Let me ask you at thi s point, is there any inhibi- tion in the Con:-titution the.t would ),eep these Stetes from e"tering into these contrects without Federal consent? MR. CAR1EHTER. Yes, sir. could draw a compact for later cation, but Article I, section in part, as fo1lowsI They could draw them in advance; they submissi on to Congress or for ratifi- 10, paragraph 3, of the Constitution reads, "No State shall, without consent of Congress, enter into any agreement or compact with 'lnother State," P.nd it was thoubht advisable to obtain the consent of Congress in advance respecting this proposed compact. I' Following this meeting of the [';overnors and the preparation of the resolution, the governors proceeded to Washington - most of them in person, and in two or three cases by personal representative - and wait- ed upon the Secretary of the Interior and p1ao~d before him the reso- lutions adopted at Denver, and also waited upon the President of the United States on May 19, laying before him their original resolutions adopted at Denver, , I might further stflte that this bill was introduced by Mr. nondell in view of those resoluti ons and of the action of those States and the action of their executives, culminating in the cull upon the president on May 19.