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<br /> <br />, <br /> <br />oele61 ' " <br /> <br />10 ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT <br /> <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. <br /> <br />STATEMENT OF HENRY C, VIDAL, CHAIRMAN, COLORADO COl\[. <br />MISSION ON ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT <br /> <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, <br /> <br />L <br />