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-12- "L. Ward Bannister, Counsel for the City of Denver; "M. C. Meachem, Representing New Mexico." The Struggle at Washington H. S. McCluskey, of the Arizona Commission, left for Washington on December 20, and was followed a few days later by the Secretary of the Commission, Mulford Winsor. From then until the adjournment of Congress at 5 :30 p.m., May 29, 1928, members of the Commission, and at one time or another all of them except one, together with a number of advisors and legal assistants, were on the ground, to give aid and counsel to Arizona's representatives in Congress; to present to members of Congress the facts with respect to the Colorado River; to champion Arizona's cause and enlist support for it; to participate in all movements looking to a just compromise of the differences existing between the States. Hearings Before Congressional Committees On January 6 the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the House of Representatives resumed its hearings on H. R. 5773-the so-called Swing-Johnson bill- and on that day Mr. Winsor of the Arizona Commission appeared as the first witness, to present the Arizona case. On January 9 Representative Lewis W. Douglas of Arizona addressed the Committee, followed by Mr. McCluskey of the Arizona Commission. For a verbatim report of these addresses, see the "Hearings before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 5773," Part I, pages 19 to 170. Beginning January 27, hearings were held by the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, on S. 728, the companion measure to H. R. 5773. On that date Governor