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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 211 They were up against a combine born of horse trading and nurtured on logrolling. Hayden and McFarland had traded their shirts, and they had no reason to be- lieve S. 75 would not pass. McFarland addressed the Senate first. He told how Arizona pioneers had labored and suffered to make the desert bloom, and he described the water and power systems of his state. S. 75 was essentially a "rescue" project and the Bureau of Reclamation, in supporting it, had called it that, he said. When McFarland mentioned that Pima Indians of Arizona would benefit from the project, Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, a strong supporter of S. 75, reminded the Senate that one of the Marines who had raised the flag on Iwo Jima was a Pima. McFarland thanked him and continued.298 Without the additional surface water which S. 75 would provide, said McFarland, Arizona would face disaster. The picture of chaos which he painted was familiar to all who had heard him in committees. With- out S. 75, thousands of people would lose their homes, banks and business houses would collapse, and a quarter of a million people would have to leave the state.299 Water, he declared, was available for the project, be- longed to Arizona and did not belong to California. By attempting to take the Colorado River controversy before the Supreme Court, California was only seeking to delay the Arizona project. California wanted the water to which Arizona was entitled. California wanted the water to irrigate worthless land in the Imperial Valley. California did not need the water, and if Ari- zona didn't get it, it would be used in Mexico or wasted into the Gulf of California.300 |