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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 179 April 9, 1949 Eager to make as much progress as he could before the Easter recess, Murdock called a hearing for this Saturday morning. The order didn't set well with most members of the committee, and only a handful ap- peared. If none had shown up, Murdock would not have been perturbed, for he intended to use the morning chiefly to clean up odds and ends of his case, such as inserting in the record a number of prepared statements. To begin with he gave the stenographer long sections of testimony given by Arizona witnesses who had ap- peared before the Senate committee in support of S. 1175 during the previous Congress. Most of this material already had been printed twice in the Senate records, and some of it had been given to the House Judiciary Committee hearings. Now it would be perpetuated a fourth time, forcing California to refute it again by sub- mitting countering evidence.239 Murdock also placed in the record Attorney Carson's testimony on HR. 5434, a bill to authorize the Gila Project in Arizona before the Seventy-ninth Congress. In the consideration of this bill the Colorado River issues were discussed at great length, and Murdock obviously thought the record would bolster Arizona's case.240 Murdock's next offering was the brief of the Upper Basin states opposing the Supreme Court resolutions.241 These insertions alone required one hundred and two pages in six-point type, at considerable cost to the tax- payers, and an expense which California and Nevada had no alternative but to increase in their own defense. Ninety-nine per cent of the material, both from Arizona and California, could have been obtained by any mem- |
