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Show 64 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Carson had to face an examination by Downey, Ari- zona's case would be bogged down in a mire of legal arguments from which it might not be extricated before Congress adjourned for the year. Downey was not only a brilliant water lawyer and cross-examiner, but he was flanked by some of California's foremost water lawyers and engineers who were waiting to testify. McFarland did not expose his legal expert to open assault. Instead, he asked: "Now, Mr. Chairman, in order to further shorten the hearings, I would like to ask that Mr. Charles A. Carson's testimony which he gave before the House hearings on HR. 5434 ... (a bill to re-authorize the Arizona Gila Project) ... be incorporated in the record or referred to by reference, and when the record is printed that such testimony be printed in full along with other statements." It was done, and, printed in six-point type, it con- sumed more than seventy pages of the record. If any committee member ever read it, he did not announce the fact. In this submitted testimony, Carson attempted to show that California was not entitled to as much Colorado River water as was awarded to it by Federal Govern- ment contracts. That California was forever limited to 4,400,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water. That the Gila River, although a part of the Colorado River system, had been awarded exclusively to Arizona, and was included in the Colorado River Compact's division of the river's water. Carson went back into what he declared was the history of the Compact, and gave his interpretation of the document, section by section. He went through the |