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Show 258 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER warned the Senate that in passing S. 75 it was destroy- ing the standards of reclamation under which the great development of the West had been accomplished,365 that a vote of approval would be a vote for a project for which there might be no water, and this would be the first time in history the Senate had ever done such a thing. Knowland might as well have made his speech in the sanctity of his own bedroom. The time to vote had come, and the clerk began to call the roll. When it was completed, these were the results 366 (see Appendix f ): For the passage of S. 75 ................ 50 For the defeat of S. 75 .................... 28 Once more, as in 1950, the Hayden steamroller had been insuperable. "Water Grab!" cried the Washington Daily News.367 "Reclamation As Usual!" said the Wall Street Jour- nal.368 "Dam Foolishness!" was the opinion of the Chicago Daily News.369 "A Holdup!" yelled the Hearst newspapers from coast-to-coast.370 The Waverly, Iowa, Independent thought the Senate "must have been smok- ing marijuana."371 "Fantastic and Dangerous!" was the opinion of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.312 Undeterred by the voices of protest, McFarland was hurrying across Capitol Hill to the House Office Build- ing. He had pressing business with the members of the House Interior Committee. The planners in the Bureau of Reclamation were no less angered and disappointed than McFarland, Hayden and Murdock by the refusal of the House Interior Com- mittee to play ball with them. While McFarland was |