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Show Part Four Room 457 of the Senate Office Building was crowded far beyond the capacity of its seats at 10:45 a.m. on June 28, 1954, when the rotund Senator Millikin of Colorado took his chair at the end of a long polished table and tapped for order. On his left was Senator Watkins of Utah, on his right Senator Anderson of New Mexico. All three were authors of the bill that would be considered. The other two members of the Subcom- mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Senate Interior Committee were Senators Guy Cordon of Oregon and Henry M. Jackson of Washington. They were not present. Greater odds against the opponents of a bill hardly could have been devised. There was absolutely no con- ceivable chance that the subcommittee, or the full com- mittee, for that matter, would fail to approve S. 1555. It was doubtful if any proposed legislation had ever started its journey through the Senate on a smoother road. If the two California witnesses and the small troop of conservationists, waiting to testify, had simply sub- mitted written statements and departed, their actions |