AZ vs. CA:13 California Exhibits, Vol. XIII; Nos. 1800-1842; 1901-1906; 2000-2044

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-68- Mr. Hayden. Is it the Senator's contention that when the time comes to supply water to Mexico the proportion borne by Arizona and California should be in that ratio? Mr. Johnson. By no means; I am not asking that at all, because we hope by the storage in this dam to control Mexican water; and if the Senator from Arizona will follow the testimony of Mr. Hoover, which he has read to-day, he will find that that is one of the designs; but what I do not wish to do is to exempt the Gila River at this time and put the whole burden upon the two States subsequently in the proportion the Senator has indicated. Mr. Hayden. The Senator is unwilling that California should divide the burden equally with the State of Arizona? Mr. Johnson. Not a bit; but there would not be an equal division under the system the Senator proposes. It is a division, on the one hand, by which it is proposed to exempt from the stream, first, 3,500,000 acre-feet- and sometimes the people of Arizona have said that there were 6,000,000 acre-feet in that stream, as the Senator is well aware, but taking the lower figure, 3,500,000 acre-feet-the Senator is seeking to deduct that first and then have a division made of the waters that are in the main stream itself. There is not any necessity for any action in this regard at all. It is an uncertain thing to do to-day; it is a thing from which no man can tell what the consequences may be; and it ought not to be done. Particularly, it ought not to be done in view of the definitions that are found in the Colorado River compact, and which I have read here. Sufficient it is, for us to accomplish that purpose subsequently when the dam shall have been erected. Into