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Show A STACKED COMMITTEE 133 it was not in accord with the program of the President. That's why. "Couldn't it be put back in?" asked Millikin. "Sure, it could," said Dexheimer. "It wasn't a question of feasibility, was it?" Anderson wanted to know. "No, it was not," Dexheimer replied. Millikin told Anderson to state what he wanted in the bill. Anderson said he wanted the Navajo Project in the bill. Why can't it be put in the bill, then, Millikin wanted to know. "No reason at all," said Dexheimer, but wanted to know what the Reclamation Bureau was going to do with the water that would be impounded behind Navajo Dam. New Mexico hadn't yet decided how its share of water would be distributed.149 "We'll tell you what to do with the water," Anderson said with firmness. Horatio Alger stories had nothing on Utah Engineer Clyde. He told the committee he was born on an irri- gated farm "with a lantern in one hand and a shovel in the other." In a voice touched with sobs, Clyde de- scribed how Utah's failure to develop its water had forced its children to move to other states. Two or three hundred thousand had even gone to Los Angeles, he said in sadness. "Good people, too," Kuchel told him. Senator Watkins' favorite comic, G. E. Untermann, whom he had booked in the House hearings, got another opportunity on the Senate circuit. He didn't let his sponsor down. Untermann had devloped a new routine in which he attacked the "wacky" conservationists. A mysterious |