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<br />ARlUNSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />bill authorizing the compact passed?
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<br />The CHAIRMAN. When was the
<br />When was that aprroved j
<br />'. Mr. STONE. AprIl 1945.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. And negotiations were undertaken when j
<br />Mr. STONE, The negotiations were undertaken shortly thereafter
<br />and have proceeded since that time.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. And the compact was signed when j
<br />Mr. STONE. The compact was signed December 14, 1948.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. There has been handed to me informally a report
<br />to the Congress on this compact submitted by Gen. Hans Kramer as a
<br />. representative of the United States in the compact negotiations. Has
<br />that report been formally submitted to the Congress as yet!
<br />Mr. STONE. General Kramer who is the Federal representative, is
<br />here today.. He has presented that report through the Budget Bureau.
<br />Whether it has yet reached the Congress I do not know. We are ad-
<br />vised it has not.
<br />However, General Kramer is p
<br />today.
<br />.The CHAIRMAN. Very well.
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<br />repared to present that report horA
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<br />STATEMENT OF HENRY C. VIDAL, CHAIRMAN, COLORADO COM.
<br />MISSION ON ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />Mr. VIDAL. My name is Henry C. Vidal. I am a lawyer of Denver,
<br />Colo. I have practiced in Denver and the Arkansas Valley of Colo-
<br />rado for more than 50 years, and have been actively concerned and
<br />interested in all water matters there, and particularly the relations in
<br />unfortunate and long-winded controversy with Kansas.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. I seldom hear a lawyer refer to litigation as being
<br />unfortunate.
<br />Mr. VIDAL. Perhaps I should not refer to that because it is ended
<br />now. It was a very prolific source of revenue since I was a youngster
<br />first practicing law.
<br />Senator MILLIKIN. Mr. Chairman, I would like to interrupt long
<br />enough to say that Mr. Vidal is not only known as a great expert in
<br />water law in Colorado and in all of our arid States, but he is a great
<br />citizen of Colorado. I feel honored to sit at the same table with him.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. His reputation has preceded him to this committee.
<br />Mr. VIDAL. I am most thankful, in myoId age, to have such grati-
<br />fying expressions.
<br />My colleagues on the commission for Colorado, due to my seniority,
<br />have done me the courtesy to elect me as chairman. Mr. Gail L. Ire"
<br />land, for two terms attorney general of Colorado, was a member of our
<br />commission and is here. The third member is Mr. Harry B. Menden-
<br />hall, a banker, farmer, businessman from the Arkansas Valley, very
<br />well qualified to handle negotiations of this kind.
<br />I have participated in all the litigation. In fact, one of my earliest
<br />recollections is of Mr. Huston, of Wichita, Kans., coming to the. office
<br />in which I began to talk about the first lawsuit that Kansas brought
<br />many years ago, 50 years ago.
<br />. . I was a member of what was called the Arkansas Basin Committee
<br />in 1933 and 1934, a five-State committee, consisting of representatives
<br />of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico.
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