WSP07244

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/19/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #20
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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sha,ll be subservient to the need and necessary consumption of suoh
waters for domestio, agrioultural, manufacturing and power purposes.
MR. CARPENTER: Now it is my original thought to follow the
word 'domestio' with the word 'munioipal'. The suggestion was
brought forward that munioipal might be t,aken to inolude power.
MR. HOOVER: Is there any other amendment to that paragraph?
I may just mention there may be the same opposition to that in
Congress, but I don't know how muoh.
MR. NORVIEL: I was just wondering if the word 'flood oontrol'
would have any inf lUenoe' or effe 0 t.
MR. HOOVER: To put in the first olause flood oontrol?
MR. CARPENTER: It isn't of any use at all,
MR. HAMBlE: I have already suggested that I think it is
unwise to put that paragraph in this oompaot beoause this these
oontraoting parties have no power to make suoh provision in the
first plaoe, and in the seoond plaoe, it endangers the oompaot
because it is almost oertain to be eliminated by Congress in some
form of reservation, whioh may make it much more tliffioult to get
a formal approval of the oompact; that is, to make the approval
final and binding. This question of navigation is one whioh the
federal government guards very jealously, and I have not heard any
reason given before this oommission, except a purely sentimental
one, as to Why it should go in, and I think it would be said by
the government that an approval of suoh a olause might embarrass

the state department in oonneotion with a treaty with Mexioo. There

are various questions still unsettled as to what the rights of

Mexico are under previous treaties in oonneotion with navigation,

and wi th that in mind,i t seems almost absolutely certain that the

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