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Show 130 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Senators Downey, Knowland, Malone and McCarran again introduced a joint resolution to take the contro- versy to the Supreme Court. Numbered SJ.Res. 4, it too was sent to O'Mahoney's committee instead of the Judiciary Committee, where it properly belonged. O'Mahoney announced that it would be considered simultaneously with the project bill. This would give him and Arizona a chance to knock California in the head twice with the same stone. Arizona's two congressmen, Murdock and Harold A. Patten, serving his first term, were authors of House project bills, HR. 934 and HR. 935. As expected, they were sent to Murdock's subcommittee, and he scheduled hearings for March 30. Now a unique legislative event occurred. All twenty- three of California's congressmen, both Democrats and Republicans, introduced Supreme Court resolutions. Identical measures were dropped in the House hopper by Reps. Allen, Anderson, Bramblett, Douglas, Doyle, Engle, Havenner, Hinshaw, Holifield, Jackson, John- son, King, McDonough, McKinnon, Miller, Nixon, Phillips, Poulson, Scudder, Shelley, Sheppard, Werdel and White. Sent to the House Judiciary Committee, they were assigned to Subcommittee Number Three, of which Rep. William T. Byrne of New York was chair- man. He set hearings for March 28.* In this speedy manner, less than three months after the Eighty-first Congress had convened, the Colorado River controversy was scheduled to be presented to Congress in a three-ring circus, three hearings under way at the same time. * Numbers of these resolutions were HJ. Res. 3, 38, 41, 52, 55, 64, 73, 75, 95,96, 100, 107, 113, 126, 128, 133,135, 146, 148, 150, 152, 153, 164. |