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Show 192 right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum.' "Senator Pittman stated further that at conferences held in his office during the last session of Congress the suggestion had been made that the additional million acre-feet be divided equally between Arizona and California, and that if that were done the total quantity of water apportioned to the State of California under the Colorado River compact out of the total amount allocated to the lower basin would be 4,700,000 acre-feet, or 100,000 acre-feet more than California had asked for at Denver, and that by adding 500,000 acre-feet to the 3,000,000 acre-feet apportioned to Arizona on the basis recommended by the four upper basin governors that State would receive 3,500,000 acre-feet, or within 100,000 acre-feet of what had been requested by her commissioners at Denver. "The Senator from Nevada then stated that, based upon the recommendations made by the upper basin governors plus an equal division of the additional 1,000,000 acre-feet, Mr. Francis B. Wilson, interstate river commissioner of the State of New Mexico, had prepared an amendment which the Senator asked to have printed in the Record. He did not offer it at that time, but merely asked to have it printed for the information of the Senate. I now offer that amendment to the bill."52 That amendment clearly stated that the limitation was 4.2 out of the 7.5 million acre-feet referred to in Article III (a) plus 500,000 out of the million acre-feet referred to in Article III(b). The Hayden amendment provided that California should be limited to: ". .. 4,200,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of said compact, . . . 500,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned by the compact to the lower basin by B270 Cong. Rec. 161-162 (1928), Calif. Legis. Hist. pp. 55-57. |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California |