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Show THE THREE- RING CIRCUS 159 of the project; the President has declared that it is not in accord with his program. VIII. The project has no dependable water supply; the Secretary of the Interior states that the right of Ari- zona to water for the project is involved in long- standing controversy and that if contentions of Cali- fornia are correct, there will be no dependable water supply available for the project. The situation should be cleared up by adoption of Senate Joint Resolution 4, permitting the United States to be joined in an interstate suit in the Supreme Court. The approach taken in S. 75, by authorizing the entire project, then waiving the immunity of the United States to suit, and then suspending expendi- tures for the aqueduct to central Arizona pending the suit, is unprecedented and wrong. The United States Treasury should not be committed to build the aqueduct at all when the basic feature of water supply is an unknown quantity. August 3 was too late for the bill to be scheduled for floor debate during the first year of the Eighty-first Congress. But there was no doubt that it would be on the agenda as the second session began in January 1950. Hayden would see to that. Subcommittee Number Three of the House Judiciary Committee began hearings on H.J. Res. 3 and twenty- two associated resolutions on March 28, 1949, and be- fore the first session had ended California had reason to take hope that it would be victorious. If the victory was won, it would, of course, be limited and incon- clusive, for if the House voted in favor of sending the old controversy to the Supreme Court and for making the Federal Government a party to the litigation, the legislation would be blocked in the Senate. |