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<br />OOJhi6 <br /> <br />099-1928 <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />January 18, 1944' <br /> <br />ANALYSIS OF S. 1519 <br /> <br />INTRODUCED IN THE SEl!ATE OF THE <br />UNITED STATES, NOVEMBER 9, 1943 <br />BY SENATOR McCLEIJ.AN, BEING A BILL <br /> <br />"TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, llAINrENANCE, AND OPERA.TIONOF FLOOD-CONrROL <br />AND NAVIGATION IMPROVEi!!ENTS, INCLUDING DAMS, RESERVOIRS, AND ALLIED <br />STRUCTURES, IN THE BASINS OF TIlE ARKANSAS AND WHITE RIVERS, AND FOR THE <br />DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS ELECTRIC El'ERGY GEL.,RA.TED BY THE . FEDERAL FLOOD- <br />CONTROL AND NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BASD'S OF SUCH RIVERS." <br /> <br />On December 11, 1943, former Governor, Halph L. Carr of Colorado, made three <br />radio addresses fram Denver on the above described proposed federal legislation. <br />These addresses were made Over KOA., .KLZ and KMYR. They are here reproduced. <br /> <br />Clifford H, Stone,. Director <br />Colorado Water Conservation Boar<:l <br /> <br />KOA .' Satur<:lay, December 11, 1943 <br /> <br />THE LATEST TllREA.T ON TIlE ARKANSAS <br /> <br />On two occasions in the past three years it was my duty as a public servant <br />to warn the people of my own state and also of the remainder. of the West Qr plans <br />which threatened their current prosperity and their future econamy. In each case <br />the immediate objective was the Arkansas River Basin. But the problem beoame <br />greater when it was realized that the Arkansas was merely the testing ground for <br />an aggressive oampaign aimed against state control, of every river drainage in <br />the country. . <br /> <br />And now as a' private oitizen I raise my voice in protest against a third <br />attempt by Congressional Act, more subtle, more dangero',lS and more far-reaching <br />than either of those others. . The Basins of the Arkansas and White Rivers al'e <br />to be given over to the control of the Army in peacetime by the building of dams, <br />reservoirs and allied struotures under oonditions where irrigation is made <br />specifioally sUbjeot to navigation and flood oontrol. <br /> <br />Colorado's stake in this apparently endless offensive by Federal agenoies <br />to seize the control of the Arkansas, has been immeasurably increased by a de- <br />oision of the United States Supreme Court on Monday of this week whioh olosed <br />the 42-year old lawsuit between Kansas an<:l Colorado. <br />