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<br />10 ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />The CHAIRMAN, When was the bill authorizing the compact passed ~
<br />When was that aPli'roved ~ '
<br />Mr, STONE, AprIl 1945,
<br />The CHAIRMAN, And negotiations were undertaken when ~
<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!
<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, iB
<br />here today, He has presented that report through the Budget Bureau,
<br />'Whether it has yet reached the Cougress I do not know, We are ad-
<br />vised it has not,
<br />However, General Kramer is prepared to present that report herA
<br />today.
<br />The CHAIRMAN, Very well.
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<br />STATEMENT OF HENRY C, VIDAL, CHAIRMAN, COLORADO COl\[.
<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 />uufortunate,
<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 ne"otiations of this kind,
<br />I have participated in ail 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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