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<br />'- <br /> <br />Is not the question of allowable use quite fully covered in <br />your paragraph seven? <br /> <br />V Your eighth and Jninth: Thirty years - or other period holiday _ <br />open for appropriation; <br /> <br />Would not such a provision or, indeed, any plan that may be <br />adopted purporting to eliminate priority as between the states <br />prove unw~rkable except 0r unless 1 t. -u8 br<mgl1t about by or <br />through s orne clear s ta tement of eq1li t.e.ble di v lalon between <br />the sta tes? <br />or <br />Why not adhere closely to the priority rule up to the point of <br />impend ing unequitable use by some state? <br /> <br />Should not the coming Colorado River Commission be clothed <br />with full authority to refuse any further appropriations <br />wi thin any s ta te proposing to take wha t may appear tu be an'! <br />excess? <br /> <br />Are we not entirely safe in cOT-cl-.::.ding t!18.t lcng before any <br />occasion for such possible 1'e1:'I\3a1 0'J t'rJ8 Commissio::1 may arise, <br />said COllllDission will nave at [,and ar"ple data on which to de- <br />termine ~:e'li1;.-te.bI9 division"'! <br /> <br />May not such a Commission be t:'Usted to 2Jt fai::'l~'? <br /> <br />VI Your thirteenth: Why p:)'.ce nn;7 :restr.'_"'t,; ')l] on diversion out- <br />side the basin, as betwGsn the seven R~a~ss~ Why not apply <br />the same principle as to priarit7 end ~qultBbla division we <br />,propose to be in use among the sta~c8. ,,':'~eT<:lly, to the whole <br />~amily of states? <br /> <br />YOUR ARTICLE ~wn <br /> <br />VIr I question the wisdom of the cre~tion of a CommiSSion to be <br />appointed by the President, ~Lless he nano SGDe members of <br />his Cabinet,- say, Secretarys of Inte:ior, Co~~erce and Ag_ <br />riculture. SUch a Commission could ve~y well provide for 'v <br />every oontingency tha t mig ht arise. <br /> <br />In lieu of such an ex-officio Commission, I would prefer ,one <br />constituted somewhat like the present one - representatives <br />of the states and the Federal Goverr~en~. <br /> <br />In oonclusion: and recalling the idea emphasized by Secretary <br />Roover and Dr. Widstoe at Salt Lake City; May we not have a <br />shorter declaration? Why not something along this line? <br /> <br />1, Provision for the organization of a permanent Comm- <br />ission and giving it authority and means to fUl'lction. <br /> <br />2, Beneficial use shall be the measure and limit of <br />rights to be acquired, <br /> <br />6 <br />