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Show 234 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER McFarland, Anderson of New Mexico, Long of Louisi- ana, Smathers of Florida, Butler of Nebraska, Millikin of Colorado, Ecton of Montana, Watkins of Utah and O'Mahoney of Wyoming. On March 12, the Interior Committee sent the bill to the Senate floor, where McFarland was director of operations. He might have pushed it to the front of the calendar, but several senators were pressing him for consideration of their own pet bills, and he decided that it would be wise to give precedence to some of these. The passage of a few weeks would make no difference, for he had more than enough aye votes for the project bill in his pocket. He let it be known that S. 75 prob- ably would not be called up until sometime in May. The Arizona representatives, Murdock and Patten, not enjoying Hayden's power, were obliged to accept new numbers for their project bills, HR. 1500 and HR. 1501. When Murdock received them before his own committee, he set hearings for February 27, the first available date. The California and Nevada senators reintroduced a joint resolution to make the United States a party to Supreme Court litigation. Numbered SJ. Res. 26, it went, as usual, to the Senate Interior Committee, which was the same as killing it on the day it was born. Twelve California representatives submitted similar court resolutions in the House. Assigned to the Judiciary Committee, they were immediately pigeon-holed and forgotten. * ?Numbers were HJ. Res. 21, 92, 99, 112, 113, 114, 116, 134, 135, 143, 144, 151, introduced by Reps. Hinshaw, McDonough, Phillips, Hillings, Yorty, Engle, Poulson, Sheppard, Allen, Doyle, King, Werdel, Jackson, Bramblett, Holifield and McKinnon. |