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Show 154 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER meaning of words and to distort the record in history, and to welch on the solemn agreements that the state of California made - the best group I can compare them with is the Politburo in Moscow." Senator Downey demanded to know "on what specific act does the senator base that statement?" Thereupon, he and Hayden got into an extended argument, which settled nothing. Special California Counsel Northcutt Ely returned on the last day of the hearings to repeat the presentations he had made in the previous Congress.193 He talked at times only for the record, since, except for the occupant of the chairman's seat, and Senators Downey and Mc- Farland, the council table was deserted. Senators came and went, some remaining only a few minutes at a time. It was obvious the bill's proponents were getting weary of attending sessions on legislation on which they had made up their minds. Frequently California witnesses had pointed out that power from the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would have to be sold to consumers in Southern California. There was no other market for it. In an effort to offset this testimony, M. J. Dougherty, chairman of the Ari- zona Power Authority, sent to Secretary Krug on April 26, 1949, an application for the entire output of the dam. [Under S. 75, one-third of the dam's power output would be given free to the Central Arizona Project.] Even with power from Parker, Davis and Hoover Dams, declared Dougherty, Arizona would surfer a power shortage. Engineer Peterson quickly refuted Dougherty's state- ment, telling the committee that claims of a power shortage in Arizona were incorrect.194 Up to the present |