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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 169 physically, to come here also," he said. He intimated that Carson was quite ill, and Byrne assured him that full opportunity to testify would be given anyone who was ill. The next day, April 6, was spent listening to Attorney Howard and California rebuttal.214 Then Chairman Byrne disclosed that he had, after all, capitulated to McFarland. Abruptly he adjourned the hearings for nearly four weeks, until May 2. Apparently Arizona and the Upper Basin states were unable to think of a reason for not attending the May 2 hearing, and they were represented at it in force. Howell, Breitenstein, and Carson,215 supplied all the records with which they had entertained their good friends on the Senate Interior Committeee. Several members of the committee made it clear they did not propose to be parties to a political settlement that properly should be decided by a court. Once again California could take heart, but once again it would be sadly disappointed. A stenographer's transcript had been taken of the Judiciary Committee hearings, but it was never printed. This was indication enough of what the final result would be, and as the weeks passed and the end of the first session of the Eighty-first Congress neared, it was apparent that Hayden and McFarland and their friends in the House had been successful in pigeonholing the Supreme Court resolutions in the House Judiciary Committee. The only difference between the House Interior Committee and its Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, was that the committees had different |