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Show 142 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER to repeat as little as possible material and testimony previously presented before the same committee when Millikin was chairman. When at last the O'Mahoney hearings would be printed, they would contain about one thousand pages. Very few new arguments would have been advanced by either side. Very few new faces would have appeared on the witness stand. But this was a new Congress, and it is the way of every Congress to start anew every two years. Bills do not live from one Congress to the next. A bill's content may be the same for years on end, but every two years it is given a new number when it is introduced. Well might the members of the Senate Interior Committee have studied the record of their predecessors and then rendered their decision. Everyone knew what that de- cision would be. Instead, they started once more from the very beginning. The machinations of both the Interior and Justice Departments were soon manifested after the hearings began. It is the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to submit the views and recommendations of his department re- garding any project which would come within his juris- diction when such a project is before a congressional committee. Thus, it was the duty of Oscar Chapman, who was acting as Interior Secretary to advise O'Ma- honey how his department stood regarding S. 75. He did so. The law also required that the Interior Secre- tary state that his report had been read by the Budget Bureau before it was sent up to Congress. Chapman did that, too. But Chapman's report had replaced with dots, vital |
