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Show 114 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER nation, were giving the Budget Bureau heads and the White House advisers some troubled hours. They had no intention of abandoning their support of the project, but they began to fear that if the Upper Basin zealots attempted to push too much through Congress, the result might be the fulfillment of President Truman's pro- phecy. The thought was enough to make Budget Director Dodge turn pale. The Senate, in accordance with the plan of Upper Basin senators to let the House act first, held no hearings on the crsp. Dodge got off a letter to Senator Hugh Butler, chairman of the Senate Interior Committee. He found nine ways in which the Senate bill differed substantially from the recommendations of the President and the Budget Bureau. Dodge advised Butler that legislation which would meet with the ideas of the President was being drafted and he told him: 136 ". . . it is recommended that you defer consider- ation of S. 1555 in its present form, pending submission of the legislation mentioned above." Obviously Budget Director Dodge then charged over to Secretary McKay's office and told McKay to get his Bureau of Reclamation legislation drafters off their lazy rears. Of course, this was not a job the Recla- mation Bureau welcomed. If the Senate wanted to pass a whopping big crsp bill, it was all right with the Bureau. But McKay put the prod to them. Within two weeks the Secretary of the Interior wrote to Senator Butler that the proposed legislation of the administration was ready, and he revealed the concern of the White House and Budget Bureau politicos by adding: 137 "It is understood that there is a particular urgency for |