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Show 76 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER array of experts in the fields of science, industry, agri- culture and economics.* Tudor made it clear at once that Secretary of the Interior McKay was not yet in a position to recommend that the committee authorize the crsp. The reason for this situation was that the supplemental plan prepared by the Reclamation Bureau had not yet been reviewed and commented upon by the required number of in- terested states, and it was still subject to review by the executive branch, that is, the Budget Bureau and the White House.84 What Tudor was saying in polite language was that Secretary McKay had rushed the supplemental plan up to the committee, without waiting for responses from all interested states. He did not explain that McKay, acting on White House orders, was wasting no time getting the crsp started through the Republican Con- gress. McKay knew very well that the project would be endorsed by the White House in good time, and that was all that really mattered. Tudor's remarks revealed that it had been the power consumers of the Lower Basin, most of whom were in Southern California, who had financed the studies and investigations which were the basis of the crsp plan. When the Boulder Project Adjustment Act (Hoover Dam) was being considered by Congress, the Upper * Members of the subcommittee were: Harrison, Wyo., chairman; A. L. Miller, Nebr., chairman of the full House Interior Committee; Wesley A. D'Ewart, Mon- tana; John P. Saylor, Penn.; J. Ernest Wharton, New York; E. Y. Berry, S.D.; George H. Bender, Ohio; William A. Dawson, Utah; Jack Westland, Washing- ton; John R. Pillion, N.Y.; Clifton Young, Nevada; Craig Hosmer, Calif.; John J. Rhodes, Ariz.; Hamer H. Budge, Idaho; Clair Engle, Calif.; Ken Regan, Texas; Wayne N. Aspinall, Colo.; Samuel W. Yorty, Calif; James G. Donovan, N.Y.; Leo W. O'Brien, N.Y.; Walter Rogers, Texas; Mrs. Gracie Pfost, Idaho. |
