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<br /> <br />1m. CLRPEWPER" I was just suggesting that for considoration. <br /> <br />!.ill. EbGRSON; On that point of navigation, Diroctor Davis <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />informs me that the army engineers have giycn it up and rGfused <br /> <br />to reco~ncnd any rivor improvoments, so thoro isn't much danger <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />of Congress resenting the removal of navigation from the fiold. <br /> <br />1m. CLLm!iiLL, A situation, ]Jr. Chairman, with respect to <br /> <br />this other matter is cenceivable to mo which if you don't object, <br /> <br />I would liko to point out. Wo want to oncourage power interests <br /> <br />in tho ~ppGr division, and I would say also in the lower divi- <br /> <br />sion. If they kno\"1 they are secendary in right within a divisien, <br /> <br />there might be concH tions under which they would hesi ta ta to go <br /> <br />ahead. It is to be remembered that the irrigation development <br /> <br />which would hin(ler them may not take place within 50 yoars. <br /> <br />They may suppese it would take placo in ten years and it may not <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />actually take place in 50. In the meantime, if it had been devel- <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />oped it would have craated value to pay fer itself, and the ceun- <br /> <br />try would be that much better off, whereas it is now hindered <br /> <br />ontirely by the more fear that it may be interfered with. As <br /> <br />it stands now powor development may go ahead with absolute as sur- <br /> <br />ance of its priority in our division ovor everything,- subjoct <br /> <br />enly te proceedings by ominent domain. <br /> <br />1m. HOOVER, If you adopt that line of reacening, that line <br /> <br />of thought, you are going to dastroy the entire priority of ag- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />riculturo over power throughout the basin, because power rights <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />are going to bo fixed far earlior than agricultural rights all <br /> <br />the way dovil1 the line. <br /> <br />130 <br /> <br />18th-S.P. <br />17 <br /> <br />""~ <br />