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<br />uJJ2~JG <br /> <br />-25- <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />of tho six other States, they one by one having delegated their powers <br />to me as they departed from the city. And I might state that the gover- <br />nors of the States are very serious and in dead earnest and that the <br />legislatures of the States were sorious and in earnest when this legis- <br />lation wa- enacted. I am familiar with the debates having to do with <br />this legislation before the legisle.tures of four of the \\estern States. <br />Tho quesl;io:l was thoroue;h1y discussed, very deliberately considered, <br />both in COffiulittee and upon the floor, and passed subste.ntially without <br />any objection in each of the States after due deliberation. It is the <br />outco!lle cf the solemn act, as it were - - <br /> <br />MR. HIGHE!E:R, Not of a solemn referendum? <br /> <br />HR. CrilFJ;.I'ITSR, No, sir. It is the outcome of the solemn act of <br />each of t!oe seven States, follOWed by the sig;nature of the governor and <br />the approval of the bill by the governor, after beinr; thoroughly advised <br />upon t!~ subject matter at hand, followed in turn by the governors meet- <br />ing, next in turn by their appointing commissioners, pursuant to the <br />terms of the legislation of each of the States; again by the governors <br />leaving their several capitals and meeting at Denver; then, in turn, b7 <br />the governors in the Jaajority, at least, of the States caming in person <br />to ,iashington, and those not attending; in person coming by personal <br />representative, and layinG the matter in the form of resolutions and <br />personal interviews before tl~ Secretary of the Interior, and particular- <br />ly the President of the United States, So that its presentation to <br />Congress at this time, although probably in a sense novel and somewhat <br />unusual, is the result of as erious consideration of the entire subject <br />by the seven States whose territory is to a greater or less degree in- <br />volved, and by the seven States upon whose future development the peace <br />and quietude of the use of the water supply of that river largely depends. <br /> <br />I might state in that quarter that without the use of the water of <br />the Colorado River the territory drained by that stream will remain <br />forever as it is today. It is the most arid, in the main, of any part <br />of the United States. The use of that water will convert it into a <br />productive region, comparable with the region already developed. <br /> <br />. <br />., <br /> <br />I thank you, <br /> <br />(The following statements were slIDmitted by Hr. Carpenter), <br /> <br />{In re E. R. 6821) <br />i'\I:;l'lORl'~lDUH t'lD BRBF COIIC;>RNH1G LEGI SLATION <br />LOOKING TO.. COl"lPf.CT UPON COLOilJ.DO RIv:.R <br /> <br />PRELlllINP_RY <br /> <br />The object of the pending legislation is to permit a settlement res- <br />