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Show 230 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Murdock was reelected by the people of Arizona, and he returned with new determination to get S. 75 out of the House Interior Committee. He found Engle and Poulson, also reelected, ready to challenge him. It was December 6th before Murdock could get the matter once more before the committee. For three days the members met behind closed doors, and the fighting was more bitter than it had been before. The final meeting took place on December 12th, but neither the efforts of Engle nor Murdock could induce the committee to take a final vote on S. 75. It and its two cousins, HR. 934 and HR. 935, died that day. (See Appendix c.) They were buried with the New Year and the end of the Eighty-first Congress. The legislative warriors went home for Christmas, a happy one in California, a sad one in Arizona. But all of them knew the war was not over. |